zumba

churchsinger
churchsinger Posts: 16
in Fitness and Exercise
Since zumba is not in the database for cardio exercises, how do you log it?

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  • blueroses_78
    blueroses_78 Posts: 85
    I just saw this today, and I suggest going to zumbacalories.com - you input your weight, how long you spent doing Zumba, and the intensity (low, medium, high). It will tell you how many calories you burn. I get nearly 600 calories burned in an hour of medium impact Zumba.
  • angeldaae
    angeldaae Posts: 348 Member
    I wear a heart rate monitor to tell me how many calories I've burned.
  • edixon908
    edixon908 Posts: 68 Member
    I normally ball park my calories burned because the machines (treadmill and elliptical) over estimate. Go to the zumba website the other member recommended but consider taking about 40% of those calories off just so you are not overestimating.
  • Lina4Lina
    Lina4Lina Posts: 712 Member
    You can just put dancing but realize that calorie estimates are just that.
  • Wthompson1215
    Wthompson1215 Posts: 48 Member
    I use dancing general on mfp!!!
  • mlscott96
    mlscott96 Posts: 9 Member
    I used the word dancing in our database.
  • bohonomad
    bohonomad Posts: 171 Member
    I put it as aerobic dancing, I wear a HRM so I know what I'm burning. For an hour I burn 400 cals and am jumping around/giving it my all

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