Just Dance 2?

reedylor
reedylor Posts: 8 Member
edited September 22 in Fitness and Exercise
Hello! I am new to this-how would you classify playing a video game, such as Just Dance 2 in your exercise log? There is a general dance-maybe that one? Thank you!

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  • ProTFitness
    ProTFitness Posts: 1,379 Member
    Depends. Are you moving the WHOLE body or just the arms?
  • fbref9
    fbref9 Posts: 74 Member
    Good question. I havent thought about it until now. My daughter received the game as a Christmas gift. We have played it often and generally do 5-7 dances against one another. Each song is between 3-4 minutes long, and if you are really moving.... you get your heart rate up and break a sweat. I would say that you should log it if you are doing at least minutes worth of dancing where your heart rate is being elevated.

    By the way... I won the dance challenge in our house... :-)
  • reedylor
    reedylor Posts: 8 Member
    I am doing the foot movements as well (to the best of my ability!) Thank you!
  • fbref9
    fbref9 Posts: 74 Member
    I left off the time in my last sentence of my post.. I meant to reference 20 minutes.
  • ladysvs
    ladysvs Posts: 61
    Oh, I want to get that too!
  • HeatherShrinking
    HeatherShrinking Posts: 776 Member
    I logged it as Dance-General until I got a Heart Rate Monitor.
  • nickiejohnson
    nickiejohnson Posts: 58
    Thats probably my favorite game on the wii! :D I would log how every many minutes as dancing, but make sure you're moving your whole body! Even if its not the exact as the game, you're still moving your body!
    I start sweating after 15 mins! What a great idea! :D
  • tigertchr23
    tigertchr23 Posts: 418 Member
    I just log it as Dance but I got a heart rate monitor for Christmas so I use that for the calorie burn. Yesterday I burned a little over 500 calories in a hour. I just do the option to repeat songs or I do the "Just Sweat" feature. Good luck and have fun! :happy:
  • tigertchr23
    tigertchr23 Posts: 418 Member
    Good question. I havent thought about it until now. My daughter received the game as a Christmas gift. We have played it often and generally do 5-7 dances against one another. Each song is between 3-4 minutes long, and if you are really moving.... you get your heart rate up and break a sweat. I would say that you should log it if you are doing at least minutes worth of dancing where your heart rate is being elevated.

    By the way... I won the dance challenge in our house... :-)

    Go Dad! Go Dad!

    P.S. My husband plays along with me too. The kids have a ball laughing at us but it is all in good fun and a good workout. :P
  • JillyBean819
    JillyBean819 Posts: 313 Member
    I have the game as well. I've been logging it in as ' general-dance'.
    The last time I played/danced I wore my heart rate monitor just to see how high it elevated my heart rate. I did all the leg movements as well and it increased my heart rate to 164. I tend to stick to dancing to the songs that make me flail around a lot like 'Girlfriend' by Avril Lavigne and 'Jump in the Line' by Harry Belafonte when I'm trying to 'workout'.
  • reedylor
    reedylor Posts: 8 Member
    Yes, it is something fun that our whole family does together-Dad too! My goal is to use the Just Sweat for 2000 "sweat points" a day.
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