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There are people who choose ballet for weight loss. I think
swimming still comes in first for calories-burnt-per-minute.
Ballet is a lot harder to do for many reasons. Some of those
translate into calorie burning, and some don't.
Ballet is an art. It engages the spirit, mind and body. I'm not
expecting that many swimmers don't experience the same thing,
but I'm speaking about it as a performing art, and an art that
requires soulfulness for an audience to want to watch. No
offence to swimmers.
Ballet is resistance training. You are using your body weight,
bench pressing with every plie, every fondu, every releve and
every jump. The ramifications for bone density and growth (if
you're still growing) are significant.
Resistance creates strength. Pushing into the floor for every
tendu, degage, grande battment and jump using any sliding
motion, is resistance.
Wearing pointe shoes at the barre, is resistance.
Doing a series of changement from a grande plie, as is taught in
some boys' classes, is resistance.
In a Cecchetti adagio, pirouettes are done from a grande plie,
that's using resistance.
A dancer weighing 110 pounds burns 63 calories every 15 minutes
in a ballet class. That's 360+ calories in an hour and a half.
So if you are trying to lose fat, or maintain your current
weight, and you do a ballet class three times a week, you must
eat 360 calories less on the days you don't do a class, unless
there is other exercise that would compensate for that.
Walking 3000 steps burns very few calories - yet takes at least
23-25 minutes. Depending on your weight, you will burn 25-35
calories. Easier not to eat them! And yet, walking has other
fantastic benefits.
Edgar Cayce said "The exercises that work are the ones that you
do".
So whatever your choice of exercise, enjoy it, eat well, get
exactly the right fit in your ballet shoes and pointe shoes at
the ballet store, and feed your soul at the theater when your
favorite ballet company is in town!
About the author:
Dianne M. Buxton is a graduate of the National Ballet School of
Canada. She taught at, and choreographed for The National Ballet
School, York University, and George Brown College, in Canada,
and taught at Harvard University in the U.S.
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