Dance Fitness

The best way to exercise and stay fit for many is a dance based routine.

Fight the Festive Flab the Fun Way – Pole Fitness

February 1, 2012

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If you told your friends that you were going to take up pole dancing ten years ago they may have reacted as though you’d told them you were going to become a lap dancer or take up a new job in the sex trade. To many people, pole dancing was certainly not the kind of thing any respectable girls should be involved with.

Fortunately times have changed and pole dancing has shed a lot of its old associations and is recognised by many as a sport and a really fun way to stay in shape. Pole dancing now has international championships and competitions as well as regulations and its celebrities, just like any other sport, even if you can don your glad rags to take part.

Pole dancing can be traced back to the twelfth century, where it began as a fertility dance performed around a wooden pole, although the dancing was far removed from the styles and technique you will see today. Modern pole dancing moves are more akin to 1950s burlesque performances. Pole dancing owes a lot to Fawnia Mondey who did a lot to legitimise it as a form of dance though her dance lessons and DVDs which allowed people to learn pole dancing in the privacy of their own homes and made it more mainstream.

You’ll often here pole dancing referred to as pole fitness or pole sport as dancers like to emphasise the strength, flexibility and skill that is needed to deliver a breath-taking performance. While pole dancing is easy to get started in some of the moves are highly complex and can take months of practice to get right. A quick search on YouTube and you will come across some jaw-dropping routines, which make you think more of acrobatic circus performances than sleazy clubs. Watching a dancer support her whole body in a horizontal position just using her hands or feet shows the gymnastic skill and strength needed to perform some of these advanced tricks.

Why Choose Pole Fitness?

Pole fitness is really taking off as a way of keeping fit. As well as being fun it can help to improve your core muscles as well as your flexibility. You will develop strength in your hands and legs, and then when you progress to more complex moves you will works areas that most sports won’t reach such as your underarms or hips!

If at first you don’t succeed.

While some moves are easy to get the first time, others can take a lot of patience to master. To begin with you should expect a few bruises from gripping the pole tightly and most likely falling off a few times as some moves will take a lot of practice to get right. You should you use a pole mat to cushion your falls and know your limits so you never push yourself too hard. A lot of people find that once they have gotten over the initial hurdles and put a routine together that they are hooked. They find that their body improves and they develop more strength better posture and that they generally feel a lot sexier than before they started dancing.

It’s easier than you might think to take the plunge with pole dancing schools popping up all over the place and many gyms offering classes. You don’t even need to leave your own home if you don’t want to. YouTube has lots of pole dancing tutorials and there are a wide range of DVD lessons to choose from. There are a lot of choices for dance poles too. You can get permanent poles for your home, but most people choose one the portable pole models on the market. This means that the pole does not need to be a permanent feature in the living room (or wherever you choose to put it). If you are apprehensive about taking a class at a school or gym, then you may find one of the many pole dancing experience days more suitable, they also make great days out for the girls if you are shy to have a go alone.

I hope that this intro to pole fitness has tempted you to give it a try. I’m Caitin and I’ve been pole dancing for 3 years. It took me a few lessons to really get into the swing of things but then I was hooked. When I’m not dancing I write for http://www.poledancingpoles.info. As well as keeping up to date with the latest gossip on our blog you can also compare prices of a wide range of pole dancing poles. You can also find me on twitter at @poledancepoles

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Fitness Equipment: When to Workout

November 7, 2011

By GuestPoster

Getting up in the morning and doing your workout routine is your best bet on getting into a habit with your workouts. Once you can get into a habit of working out it makes it almost easy to lose weight and get in shape. Most people quit their workouts after a few weeks. Most don’t make it past the first month of workouts. The results have shown that if you can workout on a normal workout routine for three months than you will continue working out after that. I think its because you have made it into a habit and you also have done it long enough to feel the effects of your workouts and know how much better you feel now. By three months have past you are either in shape by now or you are pretty close to reaching your weight loss goals.

Fitness equipment can play a big part of reaching your weight loss goals. There are plenty of fitness equipment machines to help you, the total gym is a great machine that I use three times a week for fifteen minutes and it really helps me to workout those areas that I can’t really workout on my own with. The pull up bar is another machine that I really like. If you get one get one for your home. You can hang it right above a door frame in your house. I have one in my hallway and I make sure whenever I walk past I do a couple of reps on it. If you can do that than pretty soon you are going to be strong in your upper body. There are more machines like these that can help you, you should look at these first and if you don’t like them than try to find something different. You don’t necessarily need fitness equipment for your lower body. I would just run or bike to get all the cardio you need.

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Exercise Variety Is The Key To Being Super Fit

October 11, 2011

By Steve

Exercise is the way that we get fit, improve our stamina and develop a healthy looking body, however when we look at sports stars they often look ‘super fit’ mainly because of the intense workout routines they undergo during their training regimes but also due to the variety they have in their regimes.

Most sports require you to have a decent level of physical fitness and stamina to be able to play them effectively such as football, boxing, tennis etc. One of the most common ways to get your cardio and stamina levels up is to engage in long distance running, though this is often viewed as a dull and repetitive task for many people which is why many simply people do not do it.

Getting ‘super fit’ does not have to be about long runs and can actually be very fun; but only if you let it. Most sports stars use many different training methods and incorporate a wide variety of stamina building techniques in their training regimes because different muscle groups are used in different sports.

Using this knowledge and approach is the key to getting super fit in an enjoyable way. For this to work well for you there needs to be a commitment on your part to try new things and you also will need engage in sports that you never thought you would. (See Below)

Sports Training Is Key

A great way to get fit is to start a sport that needs a good amount of cardio fitness to do it such as boxing or football. By doing a sport like this you will straight away improve your fitness and also improve muscles strength in muscles you have not used in years. To take your fitness to the next level you should have 3 sports you play each week, as the more sports you play the more muscles you utilise as each sport uses different muscle groups. Playing multiple sports is a superb alternative to going to the gym which many people find quite mundane and repetitive.

Example:

Nearly every town in the UK has football clubs that people can join, where they train once a week and play a match on a Sunday. This is perfect chance to get out socialising while also improving your stamina, speed, agility and also general football skills.

As football only takes up a short amount of time you can also join a local boxing club, karate club or some sort of martial arts club. The reason this is such a good idea is because it teaches you skills that many people have always wanted to learn such as self defence skills, furthermore these types of combat sports do amazing things for your confidence, flexibility, stamina and strength.

The third sport should be something you enjoy doing which can be anything such as tennis, squash, badminton, 5 a-side football, golf etc. The idea here is to do something you have a passion for so that you are at least doing one sport within you comfort zone each week. If you don’t have another sport in mind then get down the gym and do a class such as swimming, yoga or a spinner’s class which will again help you socialise and also improve muscles you don’t normally use.

Remember the more variety you have in your workout regime each week, the more you can get out of your body by using new muscle groups and also improving your own skills set.

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Low-Impact Exercises for Health and Fun

September 29, 2011

By Steve

Whether you want to lose weight or improve your overall fitness, sometimes starting with low-impact exercises eases your muscles, joints and even your mind into fitness routines and reduces stress and pain. Instead of pounding the pavement in a five-mile run, try a few of these low-impact exercises that are good short-term introductions or long-term favorites.

First, let’s understand what a low-impact exercise is. In a nutshell, it’s an exercise that eases stress on joints, ligaments, bones, tendons and muscles, including your heart. Low-impact exercises provide muscle toning and development while avoiding the main causes of injury—strain and impact forces.

Some low-impact exercises include

1: Aqua Running. Yes, that’s running or jogging in enough water to help keep you buoyant. Don’t try in a wading pool or a jacuzzi. The water is usually waist-high when you start your routine, and as your muscles, bones, joints and other body parts become stronger, you simply use a shallower part of the pool until you can comfortably exercise on a solid surface.

2: Swimming: You don’t have to aspire to Olympic competition preparation to get fit and healthy by swimming. Even leisurely laps swum regularly can vastly improve your fitness level, flexibility and stamina. Using flotation devices can enhance water safety will little detriment to an exercise routine. Styrofoam “boogy boards” that are like a half-surf board can support the upper body while using just leg kicks to propel you can tone and strengthen every muscle from your upper back down to your toes. Using it to support your torso as you let your legs drag behind you and use your arms to propel yourself aids your hands, arms, shoulders and neck. Swimming also helps your cardiovascular system.

3: Walking: Even when done at a leisurely pace to start and over short distances, walking is one of the healthiest low-impact exercises you can enjoy. As you build your strength and stamina, alternate between faster speeds and longer distances for a full work-out for your skeletal muscles and your heart muscle. It also improves circulation. Take your pet along for company, though allow the animal ample time for relieving itself before you start your “speed” walks.

4: Bike Riding: Make sure your bicycle seat is properly positioned for both safety and comfort. If it’s too high, you will stress your knees joints unduly. If it’s too high, you could overstretch the backs of your knees—a painful injury that can take weeks to fully heal. Slow rides lead to faster speeds, but you don’t have to race to get a good work-out. As with walking, intersperse speed and distance for best results. Be sure to wear proper safety equipment, however. Never sacrifice safety for fitness.

5: Stretching: Yes, stretching is good exercise. You isolate muscle groups and individual muscles in a thorough stretching routine, and holding the tension in those muscles aid in toning. Just relax the muscles when you complete the stretch; occasionally “shaking” the muscle out can prevent inadvertent cramping as well.

Combining any or all of these exercises into a varied and regular routine promote fitness while reducing chances of injury. The key is to strengthen while avoiding injury. Adapt your normal, day-to-day routine motions into your own low-impact exercises to expand your repertoire.

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Can Kettlebell Training Help You Meet Your Fitness Goals?

September 12, 2011

By Steve

Kettlebell training has a lot of positive benefits, if you learn how to use them correctly. Kettlebells are perfect for a wide range of people, from “elite” fitness pros to the sedentary individual wanting to safely improve their health. They do not take a lot of space, and a set of them are not expensive. This makes kettlebell training accessible for everyone. Unlike other forms of training the Kettlebell works on a total body fitness and works out all the major muscle groups at the same time. Spend some time with an expert, learning how to select the correct weight for you and how to properly do the moves and then enjoy the following benefits to your workout.

One compact, portable, item is all you need to get a combination of benefits on every workout. This includes cardiovascular, functional strength, and flexibility. The workouts are fun and varied and never need to be boring in the least. As implied the kettlebell is one of the few items that marries cardiovascular workouts with strength training. This will provide you with real life benefits and the ability to preform well in real situations where you need both strength and endurance. Because it combines the two forms of exercise it works great for those with limited time to devote to exercise.

Another benefit to this is that while you can do the workouts anywhere, even in your bedroom, you will still see increased metabolic action and burn more fat off. Fat loss requires removal and burning of fat deposits over your entire body. Kettlebell provides a full body workout. Plus a kettlebell is not your typical dumbbell or barbell. The way a kettlebell moves and works actually makes more muscles come into play thus making the workout even more intense.

The full body nature of the movements combined with how the kettlebell acts as you go through them strengthens the entire body. The movements themselves are designed to work like real life chore type movements and this creates superior muscle tone and overall strength, not just of the muscles but also the tendons and ligaments. It actually makes one less prone to injuries of the joints. It is not body building or isolated muscle groups that are being targeted, rather the workout is about the movements themselves. The type of muscle created is lean and sleek, the kind of muscle that looks great no matter what gender you are.

Not only is a kettlebell a cheap alternative to a gym membership, many people find that the wide range of movements possible with a single kettlebell to be extremely fun to do. As one becomes more proficient different types of exercise moves can be included to create new routines. Plus the kettlebell goes with you, to the park, on your trips, where ever and when ever, you can do the exercises and know it won’t take you a long time to do the entire thing. The moves can be as simple or as complex as your skill allows, and are easy to learn.

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Finding the Right Exercise to Lose Weight

August 17, 2011

By GuestPoster

Weight loss has become very trivial and you may notice a lot of methods out there. Exercises are becoming more innovated to the point that we don’t know if some of them work or not. Today we will find some right exercise for you to take in your weight loss.

The dance exercise

A lot of people prefer having dance exercise, especially for those enthusiasts. This one is indeed a great exercise that you can do at home or at the gym with a group of other enthusiasts. There are a lot of variations and each of them may have different effects on the body. Some experts say that belly exercise are the way to go with belly fat, but some says otherwise. The thing is, the more fat and calories the dance burn, the more efficient it is for losing weight. So go figure the calories you can burn for each type if you truly want to know. Aside from that, go ahead and make your way on the dance floor.

The Pilate exercise

This exercise uses a new somehow innovated form of dumbbell and it is called a “Pilate”. A lot of experts believe that it is one of the best exercises that you can do at home. It improves core muscles and greatly helps you form them. There are a lot of variations on what you can do. You can check them through videos and target what areas you want to tone.

The cardio exercise

If you want to have a constant weight loss exercise that comes handy, then cardio exercise is the best ticket for you. It gives you a constant burning of calories daily if you do them daily. This gives you freedom on what activities to choose as well. The common ones are your jogs or runs and if you like you can consider your favored sports as one. Tennis and basketball are great sports to lose weight.

The lifting exercise

Lifting exercise that you can find in various styles in the gym are great for toning. This can be done later on your exercise program or after two weeks or a month of weight reduction activities. This forms your body and makes it look great.

Try these weight loss exercise out and settle for ones that you love. Good luck!

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