What to list Just Dance as?

raven3lise
raven3lise Posts: 107 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I use the video game Just Dance to work out. I've been listing it as "modern dance" but it seems to burn almost no calories, even though I start sweating after the first song. Am I listing it right?

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  • raven3lise
    raven3lise Posts: 107 Member
    or dont reply too thats okay
  • rbl1225
    rbl1225 Posts: 235 Member
    that's what I would log it for that is the only thing that is even close on this site
  • jkcrawford
    jkcrawford Posts: 435 Member
    You can add your own exercise and give it what you think it might burn.
  • rbl1225
    rbl1225 Posts: 235 Member
    You can add your own exercise and give it what you think it might burn.

    make sure if you do this that you have heart rate monitor otherwise it will not be accurate
  • clumsygermangurl
    clumsygermangurl Posts: 164
    If you have a HRM you can create your own workout for that. That's what I do for almost every workout I do
  • Long_and_Lean
    Long_and_Lean Posts: 175 Member
    Yeah, I was just going to say - heart rate is the only way to know. Get yourself a monitor. Or you know, every few minutes take your pulse (I do it at the neck) for six seconds. Multiply that number by 10. That's your heart rate. Take it several times throughout the workout, calculate the average. Then go find yourself a "calories burned based on heart rate" calculator. There you go.
  • marie_eve_78
    marie_eve_78 Posts: 72 Member
    I personnaly would put it in "aerobics, general". I wouldn't worry about the difference of a couple of calories. If you sweat, your heart beat get faster and you're exhausted afterwards, for me, that's aerobics training. :)
  • pinksparklevapor1965
    pinksparklevapor1965 Posts: 77 Member
    Oh I love to dance of Whitneys Houstons sonf oh I want to dance with somebody.. and tom tom club hits... oh cars and oh a group called sun .. Radiation level.. Barkeys and I love to do the cowboy dance.. does anybody here feel me or even know what part of the world im from.. no.. because no one understands me LOL:heart:
  • pinksparklevapor1965
    pinksparklevapor1965 Posts: 77 Member
    Oh and I have the long ver of Flashlight... thats my favorite for dancing
  • pinksparklevapor1965
    pinksparklevapor1965 Posts: 77 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlLI4embETc:drinker:
  • skinnygurl02
    skinnygurl02 Posts: 176 Member
    That's what I always listed mine as til I got my fitbit:)
  • singersteph
    singersteph Posts: 4
    Hey!

    I've been super confused about that too - just dance 4 is coming out super soon and it lets you record actual calories burnt, so it'll be easier.

    But, as to your question, here's what I've worked out:

    In just dance three, 3000 sweat points is equal to 30 minutes swimming laps. So what I do is I log my exercise time under swimming laps - if I have 3000 sweat points it's equal to 30 minutes. 1256 points? 12.5 minutes. For 3253, it would be 32.5 minutes.

    Hope that helps!
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