Just Dance Sweat Points

Just Dance is an incredibly fun, popular dance game. But the fact that you can work up a sweat and have a great workout at the same time prompted the folks at Ubisoft to create "sweat points" for all of the games that followed up the original Just Dance.

I finally started playing Just Dance 2 in the Just Sweat section. As I saw my sweat points rack up, I really got to wondering if they meant anything at all. There is no explanation of what a sweat point is equivalent to. All I knew is that my goal was to get 1000 sweat points. But what did I get out of earning those points?

I did a little research. I found this post at Yahoo Answers that explains sweat points as this:

4.2 sweat points = 1 calorie burned

Mild Program - 300 points per day is about 72 calories
Tough Program - 1000 points per day is about 238 calories
Intense Program - 2000 points per day is about 476 calories

And 3500 calories burned is about 1 pound of fat lost.

Now, I have no idea how accurate this information is. And thinking about it, I am feeling a little doubtful. In order to get 1000 sweat points, I need to do between three and four dances. That takes about 15 minutes. Can I really burn over 200 calories just by dancing for 15 minutes? I have not used any other Wii fitness games that has this kind of calorie burn in such a short period of time.

Whether or not I am burning that number of calories, the sweat points give me something to work towards. The dance part is fun, and watching my numbers on the graph move up is motivating. So get dancing, and Just Sweat!

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