When you sway your hips, move your legs and your body in time with the music you get a whole body workout. Dancing is great to get your blood circulating and the endorphins flowing. Dancing is not only fun but it gets your heart pumping as well. Coordination is also important to move to the rhythm of the musical beat.
When you get your body moving and your body flowing your body ‘s metabolism increases. This means that your body can distribute nutrients around the body as well as collect waste matter more efficiently and more quickly. Therefore nutrients are fresher; and waste materials don’t have time to rot and breed disease.
There are many types of dance: fast or slow, classical or modern, energetic or relaxing styles. Do whatever is suitable to your level of fitness. As with any type of exercise warming up and warming down is vital to avoid injury. You must exercise for at least 20 minutes to warm your body up sufficiently to start burning calories and start losing weight. Anything less is not worth the effort.
Various dance fitness routines are designed to help you burn fat or develop your muscle tone or improve aerobic fitness. The Flirty Girl Fitness DVD program (for example) combines aerobic, sculpting muscles and flexibility exercises into a single program. So you can improve your fitness, sexiness and have fun all in the one package.
Classical dance routines and line dancing blend physical and mental ability. Thinking about the dance steps helps people, especially the elderly to keep their mind sharp and helps delay the onset of alzheimers’ disease. If you are too shy to join a club or social group get a dance DVD to build up your confidence initially.
