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- Dancing for weight loss: How often should we dance to lose weight?
- Dancing: How many times per week and for how long should we dance to lose weight?
- Dancing: Which plan should you follow and how often should you do it to lose weight?
- Estimates, calculations and weight loss results from several examples of dance training plans!
- Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of dance programmes over 1 month at low intensity!
- Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of dance programmes over 1 month at moderate intensity!
- Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of high-intensity dance programmes over 1 month!
Dancing for weight loss: How often should we dance to lose weight?
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How often should you dance to lose weight fast and see results? Does dancing help you lose weight? How many times per week and for how long should you dance to lose weight and burn fat? The tool below enables you to track the effects of dancing over a month. Simply select the duration of your dancing session—either 30 minutes or 1 hour—and choose a frequency of 1, 2, 3, or 4 times per week to shed those extra kilos!
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Beware, exercise alone is not enough to lose weight!
Exercising helps to burn calories, shape your figure by gaining muscle mass, and increase the basal metabolic rate (calories burned at rest). Thus, exercise has a significant long-term impact on weight control and better health. However, to lose 1 kg of fat, you need to burn 7700 kcal, which represents hours of running.
So what is the right solution?
Exercise and daily activity are guarantees for controlling and maintaining weight in the long term, but as any athlete will tell you, 30% is about moving and 70% is about what's on your plate. Weight loss must therefore be a mix of expenditures (essential) and a diet that does not exceed your needs.
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Dancing: How many times per week and for how long should we dance to lose weight?
Find out more about dancing for weight loss!
Regular exercise combined with a healthy diet can help you slim and tone your body, but some disciplines are more effective than others at helping you lose weight. What about dance and its calorie burn? How much time per week should you spend dancing to lose weight and get results? Here are some answers.
Calories burned by dancing!
Dancing? What better way to slim down in a fun and healthy way? Salsa, Zumba, ballet, African or urban dance, each dance helps to maintain the body in a different way. While some will give you streamlined legs (ballet), others will tone your arms and abs (belly dancing). As far as weight loss is concerned, dances requiring aerobic endurance such as zumba, salsa, samba or ballet, for example, help to burn fat and eliminate as many calories as possible. It should be noted that dance generally burns between 200 and 600 calories per hour of practice. Although this energy expenditure is appreciable, relying solely on dance to lose weight is an illusion. As with any physical activity, the effort you put in must be accompanied by an excellent dietary regime if you are to achieve rapid and, above all, lasting results.
What is the metabolic equivalence of dance?
The metabolic equivalent of a physical activity is a statistical unit(MET Metabolic Equivalent of Task) used to express the ratio between the energy expenditure of a physical activity during exercise and the energy expenditure of an individual at rest. Moderate dancing, for example, is alow-intensity activity with a MET value of 4, which means that it burns 4 times more energy than when at rest, in the same way as tai chi and horse riding.
Dancing: Which plan should you follow and how often should you do it to lose weight?
Estimates, calculations and weight loss results from several examples of dance training plans!
Do you know how much weight you lose by dancing for 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours? How often should you train to lose weight and burn fat? The tables below will give you an idea of your weight loss as a function of weight, duration and number of training sessions per week.
Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of dance programmes over 1 month at low intensity!
Calm dance
Weight loss results for 1 session per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.11 |
| 50 kg | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.14 |
| 60 kg | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.17 |
| 70 kg | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.20 |
| 80 kg | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.22 |
| 90 kg | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.25 |
Calm dancing
Weight loss results for 2 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.22 |
| 50 kg | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.28 |
| 60 kg | 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.34 |
| 70 kg | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.39 |
| 80 kg | 0.11 | 0.22 | 0.45 |
| 90 kg | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.50 |
Calm dance
Weight loss results for 3 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.34 |
| 50 kg | 0.11 | 0.21 | 0.42 |
| 60 kg | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.50 |
| 70 kg | 0.15 | 0.29 | 0.59 |
| 80 kg | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.67 |
| 90 kg | 0.19 | 0.38 | 0.76 |
Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of dance programmes over 1 month at moderate intensity!
Moderate dance
Weight loss results for 1 session per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.15 |
| 50 kg | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.19 |
| 60 kg | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.22 |
| 70 kg | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.26 |
| 80 kg | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.30 |
| 90 kg | 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.34 |
Moderate dance
Weight loss results for 2 sessions a week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.30 |
| 50 kg | 0.09 | 0.19 | 0.37 |
| 60 kg | 0.11 | 0.22 | 0.45 |
| 70 kg | 0.13 | 0.26 | 0.52 |
| 80 kg | 0.15 | 0.30 | 0.60 |
| 90 kg | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.67 |
Moderate dancing
Weight loss results for 3 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.11 | 0.22 | 0.45 |
| 50 kg | 0.14 | 0.28 | 0.56 |
| 60 kg | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.67 |
| 70 kg | 0.20 | 0.39 | 0.78 |
| 80 kg | 0.22 | 0.45 | 0.90 |
| 90 kg | 0.25 | 0.50 | 1.01 |
Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of high-intensity dance programmes over 1 month!
Intense dance
Weight loss results for 1 session per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.19 |
| 50 kg | 0.06 | 0.12 | 0.23 |
| 60 kg | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.28 |
| 70 kg | 0.08 | 0.16 | 0.33 |
| 80 kg | 0.09 | 0.19 | 0.37 |
| 90 kg | 0.11 | 0.21 | 0.42 |
Intense dancing
Weight loss results for 2 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.09 | 0.19 | 0.37 |
| 50 kg | 0.12 | 0.23 | 0.47 |
| 60 kg | 0.14 | 0.28 | 0.56 |
| 70 kg | 0.16 | 0.33 | 0.65 |
| 80 kg | 0.19 | 0.37 | 0.75 |
| 90 kg | 0.21 | 0.42 | 0.84 |
Intense dancing
Weight loss results for 3 sessions a week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.14 | 0.28 | 0.56 |
| 50 kg | 0.18 | 0.35 | 0.70 |
| 60 kg | 0.21 | 0.42 | 0.84 |
| 70 kg | 0.25 | 0.49 | 0.98 |
| 80 kg | 0.28 | 0.56 | 1.12 |
| 90 kg | 0.32 | 0.63 | 1.26 |
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