ZUMBA calories!?
NeverEverEasy
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How many calories does an hour of zumba burn? I'm in a local class btw.
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I heard the average is 1000 calories per hour.0
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Holy crap!0
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I heard the average is 1000 calories per hour.
^^^ This is WAY too high. Depending on your current weight and activity level you will burn more like 500 - 800. If you go to zumbacalories.com it will give a more acurate idea of what you burn. While not perfect, I have a friend who wears a HRM and said that it is pretty close.
Oh, and Zumba rocks. The most fun exercising out there. It doesn't even feel like working out.0 -
^^^ This is WAY too high. Depending on your current weight and activity level you will burn more like 500 - 800. If you go to zumbacalories.com it will give a more acurate idea of what you burn. While not perfect, I have a friend who wears a HRM and said that it is pretty close.
Oh well thanks )0 -
Calorie burn will vary DRASTICALLY according to an individual's height, weight, fitness level, and *effort* during the workout. You can't take some random average and assume that's what you're burning, you have no idea where that average came from.
Either get a heartrate monitor or use one of the various 'dance' options on MFP for an estimate that is more specifically related to your stats.0 -
Well the zumbacalories.com
tells me I'll burn 424 based on my height and weight, Thanks everyone!0 -
Yeah that's probably more realistic. :-)0
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I take zumba classes twice a week and each time I burn between 623 to 670. Depends on how active I get in the class. On my bad days I burn between 500 to 540. But hey a calorie burned is a calorie burned to me. Whatever it is I'LL TAKE IT.0
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My average burn is between 600 to 800, it also of course depends on how active you get during. If I'm really feeling good that is when I reach my high 700's. 787 was my highest to be exact! I also wear my fitbit or bodybugg to get the correct calorie burn, it helps with the guessing so if I ever forget to put one of the 2 on, I can give myself a better est based on what I normally burn.
Good luck to you0 -
Great question because I started to do Zumba but their is no option to record it precisely. I use fast dance as an alternative?0
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Well the zumbacalories.com
Sweet! I'll take 536 calories burned!0 -
At my first class I burned 850 according to my HRM. I'm 5' 9" and weighed 265. And I just plugged my info into that website and low was 820 and mid was 927, so a good estimation.0
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