There’s a certain fun activity that could help you get fit, lose fat and improve your health. It could even widen your social circle. What is it?
The more you move around, the better chances you have of losing unwanted pounds.
LiveStrong echoed this by stating that “belly fat shrinks in response to a more physically active lifestyle”.
And, if you love a bit of music, and shaking your stuff, dancing could be the activity for you.
In addition to shedding visceral fat, dancing has multiple health benefits.
The NHS stated it’s great for “losing weight, maintaining strong bones, improving posture and muscle strength”.
It can also “increase balance and coordination” and can be a stress-busting activity.
There’s also evidence that regular dancing can improve heart health in older people.
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The easiest way to enrol in a dance class is to look up nearby dance classes online.
There are a variety of dance styles to keep you interested in the art form:
- Jive
- Street dance
- Ballet
- Contemporary dance
- Line dancing
- Salsa dancing
- Ballroom dancing
- Zumba
- Flamenco dancing
- Tap dancing
- Bollywood dancing
- Modern jazz
- Wheelchair dancing
Classes will be the easiest way to keep a regular routine, helping to shrink your waistline.
MedicineNet reported that aerobic exercise, such as dancing could prevent or reduce the chance of some “cancer, diabetes, depression and cardiovascular disease”.
When you engage in regular dancing, the heart becomes stronger and is able to pump more blood with each beat.
As the heart is a muscle, it can become bigger as it strengthens, enabling it to pump blood more efficiently.
Additionally, the number of mitochondria inside your muscles increases – and this is a great thing to happen.
Mitochondria use oxygen to burn fat, so more mitochondria means more fat can be burned.
The more regularly you engage in dancing, the body gets better at burning fat.
It’s recommended to move about for about 30 minutes nearly every day – whatever you choose to do.
In order to reap the benefits of dancing, you need to move enough so that you feel warm and slightly out of breath.
If dancing isn’t your thing, there are plenty of other aerobic exercises you could try.