Apart from being considered an entertainment or a performing art, dancing should expand its status to the well-deserved category of a fitness activity. As indicated in the survey published by the American Council on Exercise, dance-based workouts will be a growing trend as seen by fitness and health specialists.
They say that there are only two benefits when you dance – weight loss and others.
- Weight Loss – Dancing equals movement, and lots of it. Such an activity will shake off the excess fat and tone your body (consider your butt, legs and thighs).
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Other fitness benefits of dancing include flexibility, muscle strength, improved posture, fluidity of movements, and improved self-confidence.
Aside from the obvious physical outcome, dancing results in other health benefits, such as lower blood pressure, safer heart rate, and more favorable cholesterol levels.
Why dancing
What a lot of people often miss before engaging in a weight loss activity is the checklist proper: the phase when we have to lay all our cards down and see how feasible the activity will be for us.
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Cost
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Contrary to what we probably assume, although a dance instructor would help you advance your skills, it’s not a necessity for you to enjoy dancing and reap its benefits. If your goal is just to dance your way to a healthier, leaner body, then an instructional DVD costing around P200 will do. If you are looking for something with an extra dash of spice, or you can have your own dance pole installed inside your bedroom for roughly P1,500-P2,000.
- Time engagement
A commitment to dance around 45-60 minutes daily will be enough, as studies show that an estimate of 300 calories are burned in an hour of dancing.
- Location and equipment
If you’re too devoted to becoming a dancer to take it lightly, then you can enroll in the nearest dancing studio. But if this is something you’d prefer to do with some privacy, then your bedroom or living room in front of your TV and DVD player can be a perfect dance floor.
Dancing for beginners
There are many forms of dance other than the usual step-one-step-two routine you do in your living room. Enrolling in a dancing class would open you up to an entirely new range of techniques to choose from, and help you really get into the beat of things.
- Belly dancing
This dance, popularized here in the country by Regine Tolentino, focuses more on the hips and belly of course. While wearing exotic costumes, you can burn 300 calories in an hour of belly dancing.
Photo by OpenSkyMedia under the CC by 3.0How-to: Rhythmic hip movements, rib cage isolation and fast aerobics moves are some of the steps you’d be asked to do in belly dancing. This allows you to target specific body areas, improve your over-all cardiovascular strength and tones your muscle.
- Pole dancing
Minus the unflattering running shoes and leotards, it is considered ‘normal’ to wear lace or leather, tight shorts or loose hanging shirts – whichever you prefer when you’re doing 360-degree spins on a silver metal pole.
Photo from Wikimedia under the CC by 3.0How-to: Basic pole dancing steps would make you spin, hang or swing on a pole and dance into a sultry music. This is great for you to develop upper body strength and improve your posture.
There are other forms of dance – Brazilian, Latin, Ballroom, Hip-Hop, Contemporary and basically everything other type of music-induced movement you can think of.
So instead of depriving yourself of some social time by being out alone and ‘serious’ in the gym, unleash the natural dancer in you bring fir to the dance floor. You’ll love how you move, and you’ll love how you’ll look. So, as our sexy Latino and Latina friends say, “Bailamos!”
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