Dancing is a great way to help you lose weight and increase your fitness, whilst having fun at the same time. Of course weight loss and exercise are vitally important for your wellness and wellbeing, so any way that you can find to make the task seem more appealing is worth investigating.
The number of calories that you burn whilst dancing depends a lot on the type of dancing you do, how fast or how hard you dance, how long you keep dancing for and – of course – your current weight.
Country line dancing is one that older people often go along to. In this dance, dancers do not pair up and there is no physical contact with one another, meaning that you do not need to have equal numbers of men and women. Someone who weighs around 140lbs can expect that they will burn up around 300 calories in an hour’s worth of country line dancing. People who weigh more than this will be likely to burn far more calories, whilst people who are quite light to start with will find that they burn fewer calories than this.
Ballroom dancing also provides a good workout, especially for those who are just getting into a fitness regime. As your strength and stamina increases, you can start to attempt the more difficult dances and incorporate them into your fitness routine. There are fast dances such as the samba, rumba and the jitterbug, and these help you to burn far more calories than slower dances such as the tango, foxtrot and waltz. Someone who weighs an average amount (that is around 140 pounds) will find that they burn around 200 calories for every hour of slow ballroom dancing that they do and around 300 calories for every hour of fast ballroom dancing that they do.