Does anyone else hate jogging as much as I do?
Do you seek some other cardiovascular exercise that’s less tiring but still
able to burn those calories? Well your answer is here- DANCING!
Did you just say shut
up? It’s true, dancing is a fat burning exercise which everyone can do
seriously and yet have fun at the same time. Just as there’s early morning jogging,
you can start doing early morning dancing. It may it sound a bit weird waking up at 6 in the morning, turning up the music and dancing to the beat, but it's a great way to lose those extra pounds you've always wanted to get rid of.
There’s something I like to call the ‘sweat dance’.
This involves dancing to fast and slow music (for fat burning purpose and
flexibility enhancing purpose respectively) to the point of looking into a
mirror and attaining a feeling of accomplishment from seeing how much you’ve
sweat. I do this dance mainly for 4 reasons:
1.
I’m
too lazy to jog
2.
To
burn fat
3.
To
stretch my body parts for better flexibility
4.
To
get new dance moves for when next I hit the club ;)
As I aforementioned,
sweat dance involves the use of fast music and slow music. The fast music is
meant for dancing with quick movements to the rhythm of the song (the actual
sweating is done under this). While slow music is mean for slow movements of
body parts in order to release yourself and stretch your muscles and bones.
All you need to do is
go to your room, lock the door, play some music, and literally dance till
you’re wet (in a positive way). Do this twice a day and you’ll begin to notice improvements in your
body and in your party life!
Summarily, the overall benefits of dancing are:
1. It gives strength to the lung and the heart.
2. It strengthens the body muscles.
3. It minimizes the chances of the disease osteoporoses as it makes the bones stronger.
4. It increases the flexibility, agility and the coordination in the body.
5. It increases the awareness of spatial.
6. It enhances physical confidence.
7. It enhances the functionality of mind and the nervous system.
8. It enhances the expenditure of energy and its flow in the body.
9. It can help you loose weight.
10. It enhances the overall well being.
11. It increases the levels of self-esteem and confidence.
12. It improves your social outlook.
Source: http://www.healthguidance.org
Another fascinating benefit derived from dancing is, wait for it... IT MAKES YOU SMARTER!
This is no lie. In the Article titled 'Use it or Lose it: Dancing Makes you Smarter', Richard Powers elucidated the fact that Dancing also increases cognitive acuity at all ages.
The 21-year study of senior citizens, 75 and older, was led by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, funded by the National Institute on Aging, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Their method for objectively measuring mental acuity in aging was to monitor rates of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.
The study wanted to see if any physical or cognitive recreational activities influenced mental acuity. They discovered that some activities had a significant beneficial effect. Other activities had none.
They studied cognitive activities such as reading books, writing for pleasure, doing crossword puzzles, playing cards and playing musical instruments. And they studied physical activities like playing tennis or golf, swimming, bicycling, dancing, walking for exercise and doing housework.
One of the surprises of the study was that almost none of the physical activities appeared to offer any protection against dementia. There can be cardiovascular benefits of course, but the focus of this study was the mind. There was one important exception: the only physical activity to offer protection against dementia was frequent dancing.
Reading - 35% reduced risk of dementia
Bicycling and swimming - 0%
Doing crossword puzzles at least four days a week - 47%
Playing golf - 0%
Dancing frequently - 76%.
That was the greatest risk reduction of any activity studied, cognitive or physical.
So as you have read, dancing is a very significant form of exercise which gives multifarious benefits to both the body and the mind. I always say "A dance step a day keeps the doctor awake".
References:
http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm
http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/10409/1/Health-Benefits-of-Dance.html
Summarily, the overall benefits of dancing are:
1. It gives strength to the lung and the heart.
2. It strengthens the body muscles.
3. It minimizes the chances of the disease osteoporoses as it makes the bones stronger.
4. It increases the flexibility, agility and the coordination in the body.
5. It increases the awareness of spatial.
6. It enhances physical confidence.
7. It enhances the functionality of mind and the nervous system.
8. It enhances the expenditure of energy and its flow in the body.
9. It can help you loose weight.
10. It enhances the overall well being.
11. It increases the levels of self-esteem and confidence.
12. It improves your social outlook.
Source: http://www.healthguidance.org
Another fascinating benefit derived from dancing is, wait for it... IT MAKES YOU SMARTER!
This is no lie. In the Article titled 'Use it or Lose it: Dancing Makes you Smarter', Richard Powers elucidated the fact that Dancing also increases cognitive acuity at all ages.
The 21-year study of senior citizens, 75 and older, was led by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, funded by the National Institute on Aging, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Their method for objectively measuring mental acuity in aging was to monitor rates of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.
The study wanted to see if any physical or cognitive recreational activities influenced mental acuity. They discovered that some activities had a significant beneficial effect. Other activities had none.
They studied cognitive activities such as reading books, writing for pleasure, doing crossword puzzles, playing cards and playing musical instruments. And they studied physical activities like playing tennis or golf, swimming, bicycling, dancing, walking for exercise and doing housework.
One of the surprises of the study was that almost none of the physical activities appeared to offer any protection against dementia. There can be cardiovascular benefits of course, but the focus of this study was the mind. There was one important exception: the only physical activity to offer protection against dementia was frequent dancing.
Reading - 35% reduced risk of dementia
Bicycling and swimming - 0%
Doing crossword puzzles at least four days a week - 47%
Playing golf - 0%
Dancing frequently - 76%.
That was the greatest risk reduction of any activity studied, cognitive or physical.
So as you have read, dancing is a very significant form of exercise which gives multifarious benefits to both the body and the mind. I always say "A dance step a day keeps the doctor awake".
References:
http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/smarter.htm
http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/10409/1/Health-Benefits-of-Dance.html
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