Topic: Calories burned in a class?

[John Gimber: Webmaster]

Hi,

Here's a question.

How many calories do you think are burned...

1. During a Beginner class.
2. During an Intermediate class
3. During a class-night freedance.
4. During a proper dance.

Ideally, I'd like a calorie guess, and a "chocolate biscuit equivalent" count!

I think this comes from reaching the point in my life where broadness of mind and narrowness of waist are becoming interchangeable, but my love of chocolate digestives remains eternal. 

John.

[Karen Mary]

I've been doing a bit of research on this one, due to slight weight increase from Christmas overeating.
It depends on your size to start with, but about 6 calories per minute burned up for fast ballroom, which I would think comparable to leroc.
Bearing that in mind, I reckon the following:

Beginner Class - about 100, depending on how much talking instead of actual dancing done.
Intermediate Class - probably about the same, or may more, 120, as pace tends to be quicker
Class Freestyle - Keep going for half an hour and 180 calories gone.
Proper Dance - If you are like me and just keep on dancing, with only a few breaks, a massive 720 calories.

 

[Karen Mary]

Re: Chocolate biscuits - don't have ANY in the house to get a calorie reading off the packet - so John, you can work that one out 

[spindr]

Don't forget you'll still have burned calories even if you're snoozing on the sofa -- what you need is the extra number burnt 

[John Gimber: Webmaster]

Aha!  A germ of a plan is growing... I need more sofas then to increase my daily workout! 

[Karen Mary]

I didn't give any consideration to just sitting still    so my figures for the classes probably very wrong!

Anyway, sleeping uses about 63 calories an hour, and sitting, 73 an hour.  So dancing for 3 hours solid is still getting rid of an extra 500 or so calories.  How many chocolate biscuits is that John?

[Karen Mary]

Have a play with this one:

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc