How Dance Improves You Health

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Dance is hugely diverse, with styles ranging from Bollywood, to belly dancing, ballet to ballroom, salsa to street dance and urban. With so many forms of dance, there's a style to suit every single taste. But dance isn't just fun! It's also got a range of health benefits.

First of all, dance can be great when it comes to contributing to weight loss. If you are looking to drop a few pounds or maintain a previous weight loss, getting moving it the way to do it! Dance is an amazing form of exercise which, depending on the style and vigour, can burn off anything from 100 to 400 calories in a half an hour session! In fact, US researchers gave pedometers to dancers and found they covered around 5 miles in an evening's dancing. Dancing is such great exercise that schools in the UK have now added it into PE lessons in a bid to try and curb childhood obesity.

Another benefit is the fact that dancing is great for cardiovascular conditioning. It can improve your cholesterol levels, lower your blood pressure and slow your heart rate. That can be a great thing for people of all ages.

The other major benefit is the fact that dance can help to strengthen bones. This is particularly useful for the older people, whose bones may be starting to weaken. Older people can find a style of dance that suits them and use that as a means of strengthening their bones.

There's social benefits too, as well as the health ones. Dance can be a great way to make friends! With these benefits added to the health ones it's surprising that we're not all amateur movers! Fortunately, it really can be cheap as well! You just need a class aimed at your ability level, a pair of comfortable pants and some trainers! Then if you get really into it, you might want to think about investing in dancewear and shoes later on!

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