How much exercise is 3 hrs of dancing? (Read 1461 times)

Sorry - I don't have any idea, but it's an interesting question. Go to FitDay.com, Weight Watchers, or a health/nutritional website and many of them will list calories expended for various activities, including dancing (I think) - Good luck!

I'm going with WIngz here. The amount of alcohol that it would take to get me to dance for 3 hours would more than offset any calories I could have possibly burned. YMMV.

I would say it's roughly 3 hours of dancing worth of exercise. mta: hours, horus.

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I get gone and soaked when I dance to electronic music.

Be more helpful. Look, figure out how many calories you burn in an hour of such dancing, then multiply it by three. That will give you a good approximation.

yes, but. Your answer sounds somewhat like that Steve Martin bit that starts "I can teach you how to get a million dollars and never pay taxes. First, get a million dollars.... " Seems to me like Smack either meant one of two things: 1. How many calories did I burn? (in which case your answer is Steve Martin-y). The real answer is perhaps googlable, although I dunno if "dancing" is something that can be measured. And would need subcategories to differentiate between shakyshaky and 8th grade boy shuffle and Holdmeclose. OR 2. How much running is the equivalent of 3 hours of dancing? He didn't say this, so it's a stretch... but as this is a running message board and "how many miles does X count for" is a common question, it seems possible. And that's where mikey was headed. It counts for 3 hours of dancing (see #1 for a number) and 0 miles of running.