How many calories does belly dancing burn?

mustnothrowcantelopes
mustnothrowcantelopes Posts: 116 Member
edited September 26 in Fitness and Exercise
Anyone ever ask themselves that or rather replace belly dancing with spinning, ball room, zumba, etc. When I'm on an excercise machine , such as the 'elliptical', it automatically calculates my calories burned for me so that when I put it into the system-when I log my exercise, I know that it's more or less accurate. When I put in "belly dancing" , let's say 60 minutes, it gives me 376 cal. or something, but how do I know that's actually the amount. I've put in 40 minutes on the elliptical before and had MFP calculate and it gave me some ridiculous number like in the 600's. While I'm willing to admit that burning that many calories , in 40 minutes, on the elliptical is in the realm of possibility. I certainly didn't. Not even close.

So my question is , for general things that can't be calculated on the machine, how do I know that MFP is giving me a more or less accurate amount when I plug the numbers in?

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  • charmsangel13
    charmsangel13 Posts: 50 Member
    Invest in a good HRM. I do belly dancing and only ever burn around 330 -380 cals depending on the type of belly dance (folkloric vs traditional etc) so I just change the number on MFP to match the HRM. :)
  • mustnothrowcantelopes
    mustnothrowcantelopes Posts: 116 Member
    What is an HRM? Does it stand for Heart Rate Monitor?
  • AmoureInfinity
    AmoureInfinity Posts: 26 Member
    Yes that's what it stands for.
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