Zumba calories lost

You're going to hear 50 people tell you the only way to know for sure is to get a heart rate monitor. That being said, I weigh 215(ish) and burned 560 calories doing 56 minutes of Zumba on Monday. This was moving the whole time, giving lots of effort, so estimate using that (and I used my New Balance HRM that I got at Target for $70- I LOVE IT!)

I googled it, and came up with three links (there are many more):

http://www.livestrong.com/article/69509-effective-zumba/

http://www.ehow.com/about_5368632_many-during-one-hour-zumba_.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_calories_do_you_burn_doing_an_hour_of_zumba

The consensus of these three pages seems to be that a 150-pound person would burn 400-500 calories in an hour of Zumba, depending on age, fitness level and intensity.

This is why I bought a Body Bugg! It hasn't arrived yet, but I really have to know!

take a look at http://www.zumbacalories.com enter your weight, workout duration & intensity and it will calculate how many calories you have burned

This works very well thanks so much for posting!