Dance Fitness

Dancing is super cool because it activates all the muscles of the body practically. I started with dance in a step aerobics class. This is a super fun class where several dancers use the stepper to dance, it was super fun. Here are the benefits of dance:

Benefits of Dance

Dancing Builds Core Strength

Dance requires balance and helps build core strength, which helps promote good posture and prevent muscle injuries and back strain.

This is particularly true for ballet. “In ballet, you train your body to stand still, often on one leg. This helps you train the deep muscles in your body, which you would not work otherwise,” she says. You are also engaging your abs, “which are an essential part to balancing,” she notes.

Dance Promotes Flexibility

In addition to building strength, many forms of dance stretch the limbs of the body, which improves flexibility, says an orthopedic sports medicine surgeon at Yale Medicine and associate professor at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. “Both of these contribute to improved balance”

This is especially true for ballet dancers. “Ballet training involves a great deal of flexibility training. Flexibility means improved mobility, which means that any type of daily activity will be more fun.

Dancing Is Good for Bone Health

“As a form of weight-bearing activity, high-impact and weight-bearing exercises, including some forms of dance, help you effectively maintain and even build new bone mass.

Dancing is super fun fitness!