I was curious how many calories I burn doing Zumba. So I bought myself this new gizmo, the Fitbit. It only set me back $59.99 & I considered it an investment in my fledgling fitness hobby/career. I thought it would be nice to be able to tell students an approximate number of calories they could expect to burn during class. While the technology of a pedometer is hardy novel, this new generation is actually pretty cool. I wear it all day but it's so small that I forget it's even there. More importantly, I don't have to do anything with it. The battery is suppose to last almost 6 months. It shows the cumulative results on the screen all day or you can go to the site at the end of the day to review your final tallies. It will post how many steps you took, how many miles that equals and the number of calories you burned. I also like the hourly graph that shows when you tracked those movements and when you were obviously sitting down for a couple hours. Another feature is the ability to sync with mobile phones, but unfortunately mine is not a supported model. It has an online feature to track your food & other helpful diet tools.
So today following some household chores, the preparation of one new routine, a brief upper body weight workout, running thru several songs prior to class & then leading a one hour class my report said this:
22579 steps taken today
226% of goal of 10,000
10.04 miles traveled today
201% of goal of 5.00
2463 calories burned
After two days of use it seems I burn about 500 calories in one - 60 minute class. Hmmm.... that's what I was estimating prior to this purchase.... Oh well... It's still a fun toy.
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