How many calories do you burn with Ballet?

Someone weighing 180 lbs burns approximately 429 kilocalories per hour with Ballet. Fill in the form and calculate how many calories you burn with Ballet or use our Calorie Calculator for other activities.

How many calories do you burn with Ballet?

Ballet Calorie Calculator

Weight

Minutes

Burned calories (KCAL)
with Ballet

429

You might not associate ballet with a method to burn calories but actually it is! Ballet demands great strength and discipline. If you follow a ballet class, you will most likely doing exercises that will challenge your endurance as much as any workout class.

The level of your ballet class and your weight have the most influence on the amount of calories burned during ballet. Ballet not only helps to burn some calories, it can also be loads of fun and a invigorating activity to help you reach your goals

Calories burned with Dancing (weight: 180 lbs)

	MET	15 min.	30 min.	45 min.	60 min.
Ballet	5	107	214	321	429
Ballroom dancing	3.3	71	141	212	283
Break dancing	5.9	126	253	379	506
Country or Western dancing	4.8	103	206	309	411
Dancing	4.8	103	206	309	411
Folk dancing	4.8	103	206	309	411
Hip Hop dancing	5.8	124	249	373	497
Salsa dancing	4.0	86	171	257	343
Swing & Disco dancing	5.8	124	249	373	497
Tap dancing	4.6	99	197	296	394

How do we calculate the amount of calories burned with Ballet?

This calculation uses the MET value (Metabolic Equivalent of Task) of Ballet. The MET value of Ballet = 5. We multiply the MET value with the person\'s body weight in kilogram. Then we multiply this with 0.0175 and the duration in minutes.

A person weighs: 180 lbs
MET value of Ballet: 5
Time: 30 minutes
The calorie calculation for Ballet for 30 minutes is as follows:

(180/2.20462) * 5 * 0.0175 * 30 minutes = 214

30 minutes of Ballet burns 214 kcal.