Is playing Just Dance on the Wii considered exercise ?
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brightsideofpink wrote: »Eh, ignore the labels. Game, sport, exercise, it doesn't matter. This site is intended to help out with a basic equation. Calories in-calories out. If you are burning calories, log away! I've done these games, and find they can be a decent calorie burn. I agree that it is likely not as high as some others, but certainly enough to account for if you are doing it for any sustained period of time. I've done Zumba on my Wii and Zumba in a real class. I don't find them to be that different in intensity. So log away, and feel good about it
I wish there was a like button for this!!
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You mean sports. A sport may have exacerbated your sister's health fault, but didn't cause it.PrizePopple wrote: »Well then, it's a game then that caused my sister to have a blood clot dislodge from her leg and result in a pulmonary embolism.
I had a wii fit for awhile and I would work up a sweat and increase my heartrate doing stuff on there, and if that is not what cardio is then clearly I should stop running too.
Increase in heartrate is not equal to cardio. I can do a lot of things that are ultimately marginally active that get my heartrate up. That doesn't make them cardio.
Uhm, I know what I mean. She did not participate in any of what you consider to be "sports". Her birth control is what caused the blood clot, and using her wii fit to as a form of exercise is what dislodged the blood clot. But who knows, the VA could have been totally wrong in her diagnosis.
Also, I'm so glad every last person on the planet has to adhere to what *you* consider to be cardio though. Are you Dr. Francis S. Collins, the Director for the National Institutes of Health?0 -
brightsideofpink wrote: »Eh, ignore the labels. Game, sport, exercise, it doesn't matter. This site is intended to help out with a basic equation. Calories in-calories out. If you are burning calories, log away! I've done these games, and find they can be a decent calorie burn. I agree that it is likely not as high as some others, but certainly enough to account for if you are doing it for any sustained period of time. I've done Zumba on my Wii and Zumba in a real class. I don't find them to be that different in intensity. So log away, and feel good about it
That's reasonable.
Like I said here:Totally log it though. Maybe it will be good for your goals, maybe it won't. You'll find out after you invest time in data gathering and analysis.0 -
Increasing your heart rate = burning more calories than you would sitting on the couch. Call it whatever you want but do it and enjoy it.0
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Increasing your heart rate = burning more calories than you would sitting on the couch. Call it whatever you want but do it and enjoy it.
That's right....I did Just Dance tonight...for 40mins and timed it using my UP band according to it I burned 290 calories and if you look at the movement it looks like a HIIT workout.
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to me, exercise is prolonged physical activity you wouldn't participate in normally or for any other reason.
exercise example: walking around a park or a lake with a friend, going to the gym or using wii fit. This is exercise because you are doing the activity for a purpose (to be fit/lose weight).
not exercise example: going to Disney land and walking around all day, dancing at the club or walking to your car at the shops. This is an activity you would do regardless of whether you are trying to lose weight/be fit, sure it's good to move your body but I don't count "incidental exercise" as exercise.0 -
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AlondraJim wrote: »i just don't understand, i think its exercise because it burns fat but people are saying its not exercise? i am lost.
Im a *kitten* haha
Your not lost I got your back GURLFRIEND-1 -
your a what alondrajim ?
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I would say yes, play it for 45 mins and you'll be sweating ! its fun exercise like Zumba !-1
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AlondraJim wrote: »JENNY_AGUAYO OH HHHEEELLLL NO DID YOU JUST CHANGE WHAT I SAID???? WTF I am
N O T a *kitten*!
Im so sorry but im lost I wrote that your a *kitten*!!!!!!-1 -
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AlondraJim wrote: »
that is VERY disrispectful , please GROW UP.Jenny_Aguayo wrote: »AlondraJim wrote: »JENNY_AGUAYO OH HHHEEELLLL NO DID YOU JUST CHANGE WHAT I SAID???? WTF I am
N O T a *kitten*!
Im so sorry but im lost I wrote that your a *kitten*!!!!!!
Im sorry I'll grow up-1 -
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Ah, we've all been trolled.
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Hell yeah! As I'm sure someone must have mentioned by now they have a just sweat mode where they fling fast paced songs at you and if I remember right you can set it so there is no down time in between songs. Maybe I'm just a potato but when I used to play it it certainly felt like exercise to me. 0
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Ah, we've all been trolled.AlondraJim wrote: »Jenny_Aguayo wrote: »AlondraJim wrote: »
that is VERY disrispectful , please GROW UP.Jenny_Aguayo wrote: »AlondraJim wrote: »JENNY_AGUAYO OH HHHEEELLLL NO DID YOU JUST CHANGE WHAT I SAID???? WTF I am
N O T a *kitten*!
Im so sorry but im lost I wrote that your a *kitten*!!!!!!
Im sorry I'll grow up
IS THAT ATTITUDE YOUR GIVING ME ?
Jes, Jes it is! Good Job you can tell when someone is giving attitude!-1 -
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AlondraJim wrote: »
WOW PEOPLE ARE SO RUDE TO PEOPLE THESE DAYS!-1 -
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Absolutely it does count--I sweat up a storm doing this crazy stuff!
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ReinasWrath wrote: »Hell yeah! As I'm sure someone must have mentioned by now they have a just sweat mode where they fling fast paced songs at you and if I remember right you can set it so there is no down time in between songs. Maybe I'm just a potato but when I used to play it it certainly felt like exercise to me.
I think there is about 5 seconds between songs, which is JUST enough to keep me from passing out.
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YES! . I break a serious sweat playing that! It gets your heart rate up!
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