Dance

a guide

by Hailey Maas

here are 5 benifits of dance

1.Exersize

dancing is good for your heart, makes you stronger,and helps with balance and coordination. dancing for just 30 min burns about the same amount of calories as jogging would-130-250.Dancing is an aerobic exersize¹ because it involves jumping and turning.Dancing not ony works out your body but also works out your mind.This is because when you dance you have to remember choreorophy².Dancing adresses your heart, circulaton, balance, muscles, and joints. Dancing makes you sweat and breath harder because your heart rate gose up.

2.Heart and lung conditioning

Dancing causes your heart rate to increase meaning it pumps more blood to your muscles. When your heart beats faster more blood goes to your lungs enableing them to gather more oxygen. High heart rate helps strengthen your heart and keep muscles conditioned. Dancing decreases the risk of death from cardiovacular desease³ by 46%. this is because Dancing requires muscular endurance.

3.Strength

dancing stabalises core muscles which helps balance the body. Dancing also helps prevent muscle and tendont injury. Dancing also strengthens reflexes. Dance strenghthens all muscles including small muscles and large muscle groups and improves tone due to holding positions and jumping. Not only dose dancing itself improve strength, but dancers typicly take a strength class in addition to regular dance classes. Dance is deffinately a type of workout.

4.flexability

dancing can also help improve your flexability. This is because you strech and work on things such as splits and leg extentions. Dancing also is considered a flexability activity because it reduces the amount of time it takes for your muscles to heal. Dancers are also capeable of many tricks simalar to gymnists. Acro is another aditional class dancers take.

5.injury prevention

Dancers typicly have less ACL injurys than other athletes. This is because dancing involves intense jumping which helps improve muscle⁴ control. If a dancer gats an injury it will also heal quicker because they are taught about the body and diffrent ways to heal injuries, such as using a foam roller or raket ball to roll it out and doing diffrent exersizes to strech the injured area.

aerobic exersize-any exersize rhat improves cardiovascular conditioning.

choreogrophy-the sequence of steps and movements in dance or figure skating, especially in a ballet or other staged dance.

cardiovascular desise-a build-up of fatty deposits inside the arteries and an increased risk of blood clots