Burns Calories
11th of 20 reasons why dancing is great for your well-being. Here's the full list.
It is self-evident that dancing burns calories. There is a difference between the intensity of ballroom compared with salsa but both no doubt burn calories. Dancing is much much more interesting than stepping out on the treadmill at the gym where 5 minutes feels like half an hour. While dancing the time just flies by and those calories seem to just burn up effortlessly. On a recent night of dancing which started at 7.30pm and did not finish until 2.30am, time seemed meaningless and each step helped to burn off those calories. Ask me to jog or even walk, much less be on a treadmill for seven hours and see what sort of response you get. But dancing is different.
Many dancers choose to not drink at all during an evening of dance, but I prefer to enjoy a glass of beer at the beginning of the evening and know that the risk of developing a beer pot is miniscule as those beer calories don't have time to hit the sides.before they are burned into oblivion on the dance floor.
Juliet Kellow gives you a few options to burn off 300 calories. http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/slimming/slimming_tips/burn_calories.htm
Would you rather #12 jog for 30 min or #25 dance for 35 mins? What sounds like more fun?
In case you are not yet convinced check out these calorie charts:
http://www.coolnurse.com/calories_burned.htm
http://www.self.com/health/activity/calculators/salsa_dancing/result?weightKgs=&duration=&activity=&met=5.5&submit.x=51&submit.y=10
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive...and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
--D. H. Lawrence
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Chris Mitchell
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