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Dance is a great way to get your heart rate up, get rid of excess body fat, and build muscle. Because many people enjoy it, the possibility for someone to always do it regularly will be higher than other sports. That is one of the most important factors to help you get in shape and stay in shape.
This form of dance training uses a variety of movements that involve several muscle groups in a dynamic way and use a large number of calories. The number of calories burned during exercise varies for each individual. The number of calories you burn while doing dance will depend on your weight, body fat percentage, muscle density, and the intensity and duration of your training. Let's take a look at the following types of dance.
1. Modern jive
Modern jive, which is also known as LeRock and Ceroc, is a development of the jive and swing dance by combining the two into a more simple dance. There is no leg movement to learn, so in half an hour you will be made to do a turning and turning with lots of different pairs.
This type of dance can burn between 300 - 550 calories, but it depends on how much intensive maneuver you do, you can even burn more calories than that.
2. Street dance
Street dance describes an urban style of dance that has developed in the streets, school yards and nightclubs, including hip hop, popping, locking, krumping, and breaking. This dance is usually performed on a competitive basis, and is also an art form and a great practice.
The high intensity of this type of dance can provide you with many health benefits, such as improving aerobic fitness, improving mental function, improving coordination, flexibility, agility, helping in weight management, and losing weight.
Hip hop dance involves large movements of the whole body, which can expend a lot of calories. Sometimes this also involves freestyling, which means muscle groups will continue to guess and are less likely to stop responding to the exercise. Therefore, in one hour, hip hop dance will drain between 370 (for light body weight) to 610 calories (for weight 80 kg and over).
Somewhat different from hip hop, break dancing sometimes requires us to support our own body weight, so it requires a lot of strength and agility. Break dancing can burn 400 - 600 calories per hour.
3. Ballet
The first ballet school, Académie Royale de Danse, was founded in France in 1661. Today, there are three main forms of ballet, namely classical, neoclassical and contemporary. The steps, gracefulness, and flexibility of this conventional ballet are a good basis for all dance in general.
Calories burned for ballet dancing are estimated at around 389 - 450 calories per hour. This dance tends to be associated with good posture, a strong core, high flexibility and very strong legs.
4. Salsa
Salsa is a fun and seductive form of paired dance, combining Afro-Caribbean and Latin styles into a simple and lively move. The word "salsa" itself comes from the Spanish for "sauce" (usually hot and spicy), an apt description for an energetic, passionate, and sexy dance.
In salsa dance, calories burned per hour are roughly 405 calories for a person weighing 63 kg, or about 480 calories for a weight of 82 kg.
5. Ballroom dance
There are many styles of ballroom dance from around the world, such as the waltz, tango, and foxfort, each of which has a specific step pattern. It is important for both partners to know the steps so that they can dance together.
In this type of dance, if you do the slow style, the calories burned will reach 150 - 220 calories per hour, while the fast style will reach 250 - 320 per hour.
6. Zumba
Zumba is a popular fitness program inspired by Latin dance. The word "zumba" comes from Colombian which means to move fast and have fun. By using Latin music upbeat Along with cardiovascular exercise, this type of dance is an aerobic dance that is fun and easy to learn.
Women in the 54 - 77 kg weight range will burn 350 - 650 calories in one hour of zumba training if they do it at full intensity. Some of the factors that affect this calorie expenditure include body weight, muscle content, fitness level, etc.
7. Tap dance
Tap dance uses shoes with small metal plates on the base to create the dance music itself. Tap dance developed in America and has its roots in African dance, Irish dance and clog dance.
This type of dance is a great cardio exercise, and the legs are the most moving parts of the body in this dance. Tap dancing has a wide range of calorie burns, ranging from 200 - 700 calories per hour, depending on speed, pace, and the amount of effort required to move.
