Publication: Energy expenditure and exercise intensity of zapin dancers
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2016-06
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Hariri, Ahmad Danial
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Zapin is one of the dance practiced in the South- East Asia. Over the past several decades,
zap in has become a popular dance and there is a need for the research about this form of dance and
how it could contribute to health in the community. The objective of the study is to determine
energy expenditure and exercise intensity of the zapin dancers. The study was conducted with 20
participants that consists of 10 men and 10 women from Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Using a portable
gas analyses system (Cortex MetaMax3B, Leipzig, Germany), we analysed five different
metabolic outcomes, which are relative oxygen consumption (V02. ml/min!kg), oxygen
consumption (VOz, Llmin), respiratory exchange ratio, RER, pulmonary ventilation (VE, Llmin)
and heart rate (HR, bpm). The research indicated that zapin dance is a low to moderate intensity
that on average, it is 3.14 METs in men and 2.4 METs in women. Research suggest that zapin
dance has an energy expenditure of 3.29 kcal/min in men and 2.5 3kcal/min in women. This
research is a preliminary and a first study on the metabolic intensity of zapin dance. The low-tomoderate
intensity ofzapin dance could be adopted to maintain cardiorespiratory fitness especially
in those who are sedentary or may have low cardiorespiratory fitness. In addition, the knowledge
of energy expenditure used in zap in dance may be applied in different health strategies. This would
inform on the possible applications ofzapin as a recreational activity for health. The significant of
this study is to examine if zapin dance can be an addition or alternative activity in to low-tomoderate
exercise programmes.
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