Gosh this has been talked about a lot these days, haha. My boyfriend just got it for me after he got my Wii *YAY!* I'm like apparently the first one in Canada to have it for Wii because it hasn't been released in stores, but it just so happened it was a mistaken shipment to Toronto =D woot!
Okay so I put in my weight, which is 120 lbs, and there was no place to put in my height, which is 5"2' .. and when I'm on beginner mode, burn around 3 to 5 calories for most songs, when I'm on basic mode, I burn around 5 to 9 calories for most songs, and when I want to look like a fool and go on a higher mode and I barely follow any of the steps correctly because they're WAY too damn fast, it's usually a lot higher like 9 to 12 calories per song .. so I'm just wondering if this calculation is actually accurate, seeing as I played for 4 hours today and I basically only burned around 400 calories, and I'm hearing that a lot of other people are burning around 1200 calories =| does anyone else have this problem? Thanks!
*sigh* anyone? =(
wow they'd have to be doing a LOT of dancing to burn that much. like seriously. imagine running at the gym on a treadmill that tells u how many cals u burned....i know it took me forever just to get up to 500 cals on an elliptical trainer, and i was putting in decent effort. i was going for like an hour and i was poooooped at the end. i find it very hard to believe that people play for long enough (and hard enough) to burn 1200 cals. they gotta be lying! unless they are already very overweight and tall and therefore burn more calories with everything they do. the bigger u are the more cals u burn to do...anything.
well maybe if they play for like a couple hours, maybe they could. but why play ddr for four long hours when the gym would do it faster lol. i guess ddr is much more entertaining.
Tehsina, I've experimented quite a bit with DDR and a HR monitor. 1 hour of gameplay in basic burns about 300 calories.
hey there Tehsina, I am an avid DDR player and while I have burnt 1200 calories in a single session, it is not a realistic expectation. playing on the higher difficulties I do tend to burn approx 20-30 calories per song (i am like 300 lbs) so I typical one hour session is approx 500 calories for me. I hope this helps!
I've found the songs on the Wii version are a little slower/fewer steps and I burn less on there than on the PS2 versions on the same difficulty level. I didn't notice it till after playing Wii for a while then went back to DDR MAX and was like "woah, this is faster." Anyway your numbers are probably pretty close. I weigh more than you so my numbers are higher. In 1 hr on basic/light mode I'll burn like 250 calories (which is 30 min of game play, but takes an hour) Of course even in "Basic" there can be quite a bit of variation in how many steps it takes to play each song. I've been practicing and can now play Standard Mode on DDR Max or some songs on Difficult on Ultimate Dance Party which lets me burn about twice as much in the same time.
Thats awesome! I didn't know that they had it on Wii now!
Oh wow, I felt like I was the only one! Thank you all so much! I just hope that I can work up to the much faster levels with lots of practice!!
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