Can Dancing Help You Lose Weight? How Often and for How Long Should You Dance to Shed Pounds?

Dancing: How many times per week and for how long should we dance to lose weight?

Find out more about dancing for weight loss!

While regular physical activity combined with a healthy diet can slim and tone the body, some disciplines are more effective than others at helping you lose weight. What about dance and its caloric expenditure? How many times per week should you go dancing to lose weight and see results? Here are some answers.

Calories burned with 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 dance). As far as weight loss is concerned, dances requiring aerobic endurance such as zumba, salsa, samba or ballet, for example, promote fat burning and help eliminate a very high number of calories. It’s worth noting that dance generally burns between 200 and 600 calories per hour of practice. Although this energy expenditure remains appreciable, relying solely on dance to lose weight is an illusion. As with any physical activity, your efforts must be accompanied by a healthy diet 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) which expresses the ratio between the energy expenditure of a physical activity during effort and the energy expenditure of an individual at rest. Moderate dancing, for example, is a low-intensity activity with a MET value of 4. This means that it burns 4 times more energy than 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 shed pounds and burn fat? The tables below will give you an idea of your weight loss according to weight, duration and number of training sessions per week.

Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of dance programs over 1 month at low intensity!

Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of 1-month dance programs at moderate intensity!

Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: List of high-intensity 1-month dance programs!