Is dancing aerobic

Answer 1

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Answer 2

>>>yes it is aerobic!!!!

Not necessarily, and for dancing not usually insofar as the kind of dancing I have observed.

The proper guideline as to whether dancing (or anything else) is aerobic or not would be whether or not the aerobic burning effect is made to occur in the body or not....and not just if it occurs, but if it is predominant as the general energy producing rule.

The best way to estimate this is by monitoring the heart rate for indirect evidence. If dancing gets the heart into the aerobic range for the person _and holds it there for an extended period_ then it could be said that dancing is aerobic for that person.

I judge "dancing" to be all over the floor (pun intended) with regards to whether it is aerobic or not. Usually for extremely out of shape people it is almost entirely anaerobic. That's because for 3-4 minutes, it elevates their heart rate way above the aerobic threshold, and generally exhausts them.....then they sit and rest for the next song, after which they do it again. They pass their aerobic range on the way up, and they pass it on the way down. They are in the aerobic range for less than 30 seconds per song.

I have met atheletic people for whom dancing was reasonably aerobic. They'd get out there, dance, song after song after song, and it very well might have held their hearts in the aerobic range for most of that period. The issue for them is that merely the pause between songs interrupts the aerobic effect for long enough to cut into the efficiency of the process in a fairly significant way.

Merely entering the aerobic range isn't enough. At the first moment you enter it, you are burning something like 90% sugars(carb,glucose,etc)/10% fats. After something like 6 sustained minutes, that's reversed 90% fats, 10% sugars. So those folks are in and out, but they only approach the latter efficient state, and when they pause between songs, it starts heading back the other way.

So, the answer like so many things in life is yes/no, it all depends, in this case on the individuals fitness level and what that means for their heart rate when engaged in dancing.