{"id":80561,"date":"2012-10-11T12:09:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T17:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=80561"},"modified":"2012-10-11T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T17:13:24","slug":"gangnam-style-is-a-fun-way-to-burn-200-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/gangnam-style-is-a-fun-way-to-burn-200-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangnam Style is a Fun Way to Burn 200 Calories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone not heard of Gangnam Style? It&#8217;s the hottest dance craze since the Macarena. It&#8217;s lighting up talk shows and living room <strong><a title=\"dance fitness\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/dance\">dance parties<\/a><\/strong> from coast to coast and around the world as this South Korean hit makes everyone want to get up and shake their booties. Especially the sexy ladies.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t stepped away from YouTube and actually done (or at least attempted) Psy&#8217;s Gangnam Style dance, maybe you should. There&#8217;s a good 200 calorie burn waiting for you on the down beat of those Womp! Womp! Womps!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bZkp7q19f0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the American Council on Exercise (ACE), &#8220;you can burn approximately 150-200 calories per half hour, which is similar to other forms of aerobic dance.&#8221; The calorie burn varies, like any other workout, on the weight of the person and the intensity at which it is performed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Remember, we&#8217;re all <strong><a title=\"sitting is deadly\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/sitting-is-killing-you-so-get-off-your-butt\/\">sitting way too much<\/a><\/strong>. The sitting? It&#8217;s killing us. The dancing, it will save us in more ways than one. It&#8217;s a <strong><a title=\"fun workouts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/non-traditional-workouts\/\">fun way to workout <\/a><\/strong>without thinking or feeling like you&#8217;re having to exercise. The kids can get involved which just means more fun family time together. And it&#8217;s also a tremendous way to destress, unwind, and give yourself a mental refresh.<a title=\"gangnam style\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/gangnam-style-is-a-fun-way-to-burn-200-calories\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-80562\" title=\"gangnam style\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gangnam-style.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gangnam-style.jpg 250w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/gangnam-style-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gangnam Style is a great workout all by itself, but if you want to push a little harder and get more Womp! for your dancing buck, ACE has a great idea. &#8220;Get creative with your arms, change directions, and make the movements bigger and bigger until you are using all the space around you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the only dance style that could leave you sweating off calories. Depending on your weight, the intensity and speed, and duration, a non-stop 60-minute dancing session could help you lose 700 calories. According to FitnessBlender.com, dancing burns the following calorie ranges in a 60-minute period.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hip-Hop<\/strong> burns 370-610 calories<\/li>\n<li><strong>Salsa <\/strong>burns 405-480 calories<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ballet <\/strong>burns 380-450 calories<\/li>\n<li><strong>Swing <\/strong>burns 300-550 calories<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tap <\/strong>burns 200-700 calories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s another dance-inspired workout craze that has been lauded for being a firestorm of calorie burning &#8211; it&#8217;s Zumba. While some peg <strong><a title=\"zumba fitness\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/zumba\">Zumba<\/a><\/strong> at a 1000 calorie burn per hour, FitnessBlender suggests that realistically it&#8217;s more like 350-650 calories burned during a raging Zumba class.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s it going to be? Sit there wasting away watching YouTube videos? Or Oppan Gang-Namseutayil!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"kate hudson Glee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/kate-hudson-gets-in-dancer-shape-for-upcoming-glee-appearance\/\">Kate Hudson Gets in Dancer Shape for Glee<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"dancer legs workout\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/saturday-morning-drills-legs-of-a-dancer\/\">Tracey Mallett&#8217;s Legs of a Dancer Workout <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"zumba weight loss\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/truck-driver-john-drury-discovered-zumba-and-lost-100-pounds\/\">Truck Driver John Drury Lost 100 Pounds with Zumba<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone not heard of Gangnam Style? It&#8217;s the hottest dance craze since the Macarena. It&#8217;s lighting up talk shows and living room dance parties from coast to coast and around the world as this South Korean hit makes everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/gangnam-style-is-a-fun-way-to-burn-200-calories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[26,773,247,2799],"class_list":["post-80561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-celebrities","tag-dance","tag-music","tag-zumba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80564,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80561\/revisions\/80564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}