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Karaoke can help you lose weight as Gen Z replace the gym with singing sessions
According to social media, Gen Z in China are utilizing karaoke rooms as the latest trendy workout, trading them in for gym memberships.�
Chinese Gen Z have found an easy and cheap way to lose weight, explained Dr. Candise, a Chinese tutor with 1.4 M followers on TikTok, who regularly shares cultural commentary online.
Dr. Candise detailed how popular bloggers on Chinese social media platforms like Weibo are singing their hearts out to burn calories.�
Karaoke is the latest Gen Z workout
In her video, Dr. Candise showed screengrabs from a popular social media post in China, showing a blogger documenting her karaoke experience. This blogger went to the KTV alone. After singing solo for one and a half hours, she burned more than 400 calories, she explained.
Photos showed the blogger with her Apple Watch, showing over 400 calories. After singing for three hours straight, she burned a total of 781 calories, she continued to explain, showing images of the blogger singing intensely in a karaoke room alone.
Another blogger used a Fitbit and recorded 529 calories after singing for 77 minutes, said Dr. Candise. Another user burned over 1,000 calories after singing for almost five hours.
Dr. Candise explained that social media users in China were comparing the news to opening the door to a brand new world. The tutor added that a karaoke room costs less than $2 between 12-6pm on weekdays, which could work out to be cheaper than a gym membership.
Singing does burn calories.
Dr. Candise estimates that someone weighing 60kg can burn 2 calories for every minute of singing. My Head Will Go On by Celine Dion, for example, would burn 13.5 calories. Gangnam Style would burn 16.4 calories.
According to the London Singing Institute, its true. The reason for this is that there is actually a lot of muscle work involved in singing. Youre putting your lungs to the test, which requires a lot of support from your chest, abdominal, and diaphragm muscles, reports the LSI.�
The stronger your muscles are, the more efficient your resting metabolic rate is, which is your calorie-burning system. As your body gets to work repairing your tired and aching muscles, it is taking energy from your fat stores. So, the more you work that voice, the more calories you could burn.
Live Strong also reports that singing can genuinely burn calories, as a person weighing 150 pounds will burn approximately 100 calories singing for an hour while sitting down, and a 200-pound individual will burn about 140 calories. Stand up to belt out those tunes and the calories burned increase to 140 for somebody weighing 150 pounds and 180 for a 200-pound person. �
TikTok users are planning to try it out too
After Dr. Candice spread the word on the new Gen Z karaoke workout, many TikTok users vowed to try it too.
Sounds like a good exercise for me, wrote one user.
Ill karaoke every week at home, added another.
One speech therapist, however, shared a word of warning, explaining that users should avoid seriously damaging your vocal folds by singing three hours straight, you need to do many things first like vocal warm-up and drinking enough water.
