Zumba?

lreiland
lreiland Posts: 24 Member
edited September 24 in Fitness and Exercise
Does anyone know how many calories you burn in a 60-min Zumba class? The one I go to is medium-high impact and I am definitely sweating a good bit when I'm done...

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  • dragonbug300
    dragonbug300 Posts: 760 Member
    Depends on your age, height, weight, and percent muscle mass. Log it under low impact aerobics or dancing for the site.
  • daphne_gets_fit
    daphne_gets_fit Posts: 73 Member
    Well, I haven't been to an actual Zumba class but I do have the dvds that they advertise on TV and the one titled "Cardio Party" is about 50 mins long and I normally burn about 520-540 calories when I do this particular dvd (I wear a HRM while doing it), but every body is different, so if it's in your budget I would purchase a HRM just so you can have a good idea of how may calories you are burning.
  • autiemommy
    autiemommy Posts: 238
    I use my hrm as well and i average 550-600 calories. But they say you can burn from 600-1000 calories a hour in the book. So not too sure sorry.
  • JennLifts
    JennLifts Posts: 1,913 Member
    i weigh 114, and i'm really intense, but i burn about 500 in 45 minutes.
  • Losing2Live69
    Losing2Live69 Posts: 743 Member
    I went online and found the average amount of calories for 60 minutes of Zumba...I think it was like 600 something. I just created my own exercise entry for it. Type in Zumba and then it will probably say.."no results found" . Scroll to the bottom and it will say "Can't find what you're looking for. Add an exercise to the database". Just enter in the info you find online and it will be saved in your exercise database.
  • lreiland
    lreiland Posts: 24 Member
    What brand of HRM do you recommend?? I'm always skeptical and always wonder how accurately HRMs measure calories so I want to be sure to get a "good" one....one that I can trust what it is telling me. Any recommendations?
  • Losing2Live69
    Losing2Live69 Posts: 743 Member
    Depends on your age, height, weight, and percent muscle mass. Log it under low impact aerobics or dancing for the site.


    Zumba is not "low impact". It is super fast paced and intense.
  • autiemommy
    autiemommy Posts: 238
    I have two i have just the watch and then the watch and chest strap both NB. I heard that the ones with the chest strap are more accurate. Alot of people say POLAR is best. I tried to research but it so confusing. LOL>
  • daphne_gets_fit
    daphne_gets_fit Posts: 73 Member
    I have two i have just the watch and then the watch and chest strap both NB. I heard that the ones with the chest strap are more accurate. Alot of people say POLAR is best. I tried to research but it so confusing. LOL>


    It is very confusing, but I have also heard that the ones with the chest strap are more accurate, I have a POLAR FT4 and it seems pretty accurate to me, after doing each of the workouts a couple of times the calorie counts are pretty close each time.
  • angebean
    angebean Posts: 195 Member
    Today was the first time I wore a HRM in my highest impact Zumba class. My heart rate stayed between 153 -180 for most of the class and I burned 617 cals in a 60min class. I am 5'5 , 232 lbs right now, but have been working out hard for the last year.
  • KerrWal
    KerrWal Posts: 10
    Like the others recommend- you'll need a HRM to accurately measure how many cals. I found an equation on Livestrong.com to calculate calories burned... its: (.4472 x Heart Rate - .05741 x Weight - .074 x Age - 20.4022) x Time (Length of workout)/ 4.184 = Cals Burned. According to that equation I burn about 600-700+ cals per 60 minute session of Zumba. I push it hard though and have a high heart rate while doing Zumba. I hope this can help!
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