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| Tue, 01-25-2005 - 1:11pm |
As you can probably tell from my name, I am dancing for my aerobics. (I'm also doing the Tammilee Webb weight and abs DVDs and I'm trying to get back into yoga, but so far no go.) I went to fitday.com to see how many calories I burn with my dance videos and it said something like 155 calories. That's all! I'm sweating like crazy afterwards. I can't stand the typical aerobics tapes. They bore me. I just can't believe all that moving around and I'm only burning 155 calories.
What types of things are the rest of you doing that is burning more calories? Maybe I should just up the time I spend with my dance videos. The problem is I'm already exercising for close to an hour (sometimes a little more) as it is. I've got too many things I need to tend to to spend much more than that. I've been thinking about getting up earlier in the mornings to do one tape and then do another in the evening time, which is my usual work out time. I can't seem to make myself get out of bed, though.
Frustrating!
Yvonne

I am no expert on this by any means. I'm sure others will have better info than I, however, not gonna stop me from putting my 2 cents in. ;o)
I think even though you may only be burning 155 it builds momentum for the rest of the day to burn more calories. Gets that metabolism going. So it probably would be good to do something in the morning but only if it's not gonna cause you more stress trying to fit it in. Wouldn't be worth that.
Several people are doing 8 minutes in the morning here. They do like 8 minutes to boost their metabolism at least I think that's what the line of thinking is.
Gretchen
Hope this helps!
Ginger
Gretchen
Yvonne, pretty recently we had a discussion on this very aspect of fitday.com (not sure what the thread name was....I'm pretty sure Miranda will know )
I tend to agree with either Ginger or Gretchen (can't remember who said it- see -I've a mind like a sieve!!) about working out in the morning and building momentum for the day ahead.
I'm sure your dancing is doing a lot more for you than you may think. Keep up the good work!
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Well IG was wrong. I don't remember what the heck the thread was called.
I have found fitday to be great when calculating calories in food, but to be very inaccurate on calculating caloric expenditure. Try some of the others:
http://www.caloriesperhour.com/index_burn.html
http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc
http://www.shape.com/tools/calc/burned/
Just a few I use, if I don't like what one is saying....LOL!
I didn't expect to get so many great responses. Thanks so much to each of you for your input. I'll be checking out the previous thread about 8 Minutes in the Morning. I've always been curious about it, but since I have a weight routine in the evenings that I like I decided not to look into it any further. I'll check it out now, though.
Yvonne