Today, people are getting more inclined towards fitness and are discovering dancing as one of the best fitness workouts among all others. The shimmies and shakes help to burn lots of calories and result in the gain of health benefits you would have never though you could gain by dancing.
“Dancing promotes a healthier and active lifestyle”
Dionel Sylvester – Founder
Dancing demands a lot of energy output because it involves your full body to move in all directions with the beat of music. This has a hosts of benefits, from aiding joint flexibility and not limiting to boosting mental health.
5 reasons why dance is such a great fitness activity.
1) Muscular Endurance
The most obvious benefit of dancing regularly is increased physical strength and muscular endurance as it is one of the few activities that offers a full body workout in a single package.
It’s an enjoyable way to keep your body moving and your heart racing. Dancing provides high intensity, low impact workout without being monotonous like with reps and sets you have to do. With increased muscle endurance you can work harder for longer periods without being tired.
It’s worth giving a try, you will be jumping out of the bed to dance through in no time!
2) Improved Flexibility
A healthy body needs flexibility in the joints and muscles and dancing can very well help with that. Most dance styles involve a range of motions and movements in that you typically do not use in day to day activities. This allows major muscles to be flexed and worked out.
Dancing increases your body flexibility and result in your body becoming more nimbler than it ever before.
3) Body strength development (Upper and lower body)
Dance exercise may not initially appear to build your body strength, it does offer a fine way of boosting upper and lower body strength. Almost all dance styles include lifting, leaping, hopping, and prancing- all require a muscular drive that builds up strength over time.
4) Mental Stress Reduction
Dancing can be a great stress reliever. It reduces the levels of stress hormones (cortisol) in your body while at the same times giving a boost to the happiness hormones (endorphin). Most of the people who attend evening dance classes leave feeling refreshed and return to work fresh the next day.
5) Cutting Calories
Dance offers an easy way to burn away those unwanted calories in your body, and it doesn’t matter what dance style you are opting for. Be it salsa dancing, gliding across the ballroom floor or tapping the toes to some two step rock, you just burn them away while enjoying yourself and having fun.
A half hour of dancing can burn between 200 and 400 calories. So, why not run away from that miserable treadmill training and dance along to the fitness beat?