Does dancing help to lose weight!?!

yes yes yes! my friend was a little bit chubby and now she has gone on the wii fit and the dancing games and she also started a dance group and now she has really slimmed done, she looks so so so much better and shes so much happy now which is good!

All of these answerers who think dancing will help lose weight are making a huge assumption. They are assuming the person is in a fat loss mode and that's a very bad assumption to make. The only time exercise will help reduce weight by burning body fat is when the body needs to rely on fat deposits for fuel. So, if you're eating 3500 calories per day but only burning 2500 calories, you would have to burn an extra 1000 calories by dancing before you would begin to burn fat. Check out these fitness facts.

? If you consume fewer calories than you burn, you have to lose fat eventually. There are no exceptions to this fact.

? There are only two nonsurgical things you can do to sculpt your body and they are (1) add or lose fat and (2) add or lose muscle. Muscle can only be lost naturally through atrophy.

? A pound of fat will yield about 3500 calories (Kcal) of energy.

? An average person must run or walk about 5 miles (8 km) every day to burn one pound of fat per week BUT THEIR DIET MUST ALLOW IT.

? An average person must run or walk about 350 miles (563 km) to burn 10 pounds BUT THEIR DIET MUST ALLOW IT. If they walk 350 miles (13.4 marathons) at 3mph it will take them 117 hours or about three full 40 hour work weeks to burn 10 pounds of fat.

? If an average person consumes 500 calories per day less than they burn, they will lose about a pound a week with no extra time or physical effort required.

?Running does not burn any more fat than walking as long as the distance remains the same.

? It does not matter if a person runs or walks a given distance…they will burn the same number of calories. Calories are energy and energy expenditure is not time dependent. How fast a person runs has nothing to do with how many calories they burn. Only the distance determines the calories burned.

? There is no exercise which will remove fat from a particular place on the body. Your body (genetics) determines where you lose fat, not you nor your diet nor your exercise. Spot fat removal by diet or exercise is a myth which is why people spend so much money on liposuction.

? It is not necessary to do "cardio" to burn fat. Cardio is aerobic exercise while maintaining a heart rate of 80% of max or more which is used to maintain cardio-vascular fitness. You can burn fat in your sleep.

? Most of the calories you consume will be spent just keeping your body temperature at 98.6F.

? It doesn’t matter how hard or how long you exercise, you will not lose any fat if you eat too much. You can always eat more calories than you can burn. When it comes to burning fat, diet always trumps exercise.

? There are no supplements which will make your body burn fat. Only you can do that with diet control.

? An average natural bodybuilder who is just starting to train may gain as much as 4-8 ounces of muscle in a month. An average dieter who is burning fat will lose about a pound a week. Anyone can gain a pound in a few minutes just be drinking a pint of water.

The answer to your qeustion is: "Maybe". It depends on if you're in a fat loss mode. If you are, dancing will help and so will any physical activity. If not, dancing will just burn your daily caloric intake.

Good luck and good health!!

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Well obviously if you're moving around and dancing then it would help you loose weight, it's just like exercise.

they do help in loosing weight but do not focus much on them, always have an alternative of you loosing weight!