ZUMBA

I've read a few things that say 500 cal/hour but most say 1000 plus. I created my own and used 750 cal/hour since it's in the middle.

But I'd put a good Zumba class on par with HIIT.

lol, 10/10, made me laugh.

When in an entire zumba class do you sprint/dance for an entire minute. It is impossible to swivel your hips hard enough to equate to an all out minuet long sprint.

A normal HIIT is sprinting for a minute, and then walk minute, sprint another, rinse and repeat. Zumba doesn't offer that kind of work effort.

LOL! Love me a good calorie burning hip swivel!

How can we/ who do we speak to about having a new exercise such as zumba added to the list? It is such a common way to exercise these days but yet it is not int he list. Please let me know hwat you think!

I had the same question till I looked at the variety of intensity offered by the term "Zumba". I do videos at home and have a variety of them. I can burn 300 calories or so doing an easy 45 minute video, or I can burn 700+ doing a higher intensity hour long routine. I also have a "toning" zumba video which gives different results depending on how much effort I put into it. Best bet is to wear an HRM and input the calories burned based on that.

I would recommend using a website to estimate, or a heart rate monitor if you can afford it, and then creating your own entry for further use. The amount burned ranges so vastly from instructor to instructor and person to person it wouldn't make much sense to have a common entry in here.

To Plates: Yay you are a tough macho manly man, now go take your small (brain) away to bother someone else.

I definitely wouldn't classify Zumba as "Low Tier"

Why not? lets say you have 4 exercises, and we'll keep them aerobic.

1. Metabolic Conditioning
2. Zumba
3. HIIT
4. Walking

Please put them in order based off of difficulty.

As a man who does Zumba, HIIT, Martial Arts, step classes, spinning, etc Zumba is not some little lite exercise in and of itself. If you push yourself, you will burn a ton of calories.

Wearing a Polar HRM, I can easily burn 900+ calories in an hour dance session. It's all in how hard you push yourself and how good the instructor is. Its foolish to denounce Zumba as a cardio session just because it is dancing.

I do the Zumba on the Wii at home and I know that the controller can pick up movement period but, if you do it the way your suppossed to and really get down low on the moves and keep up the intensity that you would have if you were in a class you will get the same effect. I agree I can easily burn 500+ callories on a a 45min medium intensity work out. Havent gotten up to the High Intensity full length class yet but Im getting there. And by the way after a mid-length class I am drenched in sweat I really dont think that walking is anywhere compared to Zumba if done correctly. Plus what I like about doing it on the Wii is it will tell you how long you actually danced (it doesnt include all the time the Wii takes to compute and stuff) and how many calories you burned based on the intensity the remote picked up from you. Zumba is awesome and fun to do as a work out and I would recommend it for anyone. And to actually answer the main question I just have to add it and then I readjust my calories to what the Wii says I burned.

I can't even read this thread. The testosterone is too thick!

Can anyone suggest a good Zumba video? The Zumba classes in my area are not conducive to my schedule, but it is my favorite way to workout!

My *kitten* is 127lbs lighter than it used to be. Zumba is my cardio....

Anyhow, I just went to the zumba website to see what kind of calories I'm burning, and then add them as "my exercises" under cardio. I easily reach 800 calories and hour doing Zumba at the gym. I've never done it on the Wii or anything, but I'm sure I wouldn't work as hard in the privacy of my home.

Though, naked zumba sounds like a lot of fun.

I do Zumba for Wii and recently started doing the moves while holding small one-pound hand weights. I've already noticed some tone in my upper arms and I'm sweating a whole lot more.

dude...are you serious? It is a very high intensity workout. If you have a crappy instructor .. maybe it sucks... but if you put effort into it, it's nuts!!!