Sunday, January 17, 2010

How Many Calories Is Your Dance Workout Worth? By Hilary Walke

5 Dances That Tone

In light of Oxygen’s new dance reality TV series Dance Your Ass Off, we've covered 5 different dance styles that help you tone certain parts of the body. Tune in every Monday at 10 on Oxygen for Dance Your Ass Off.

Salsa for Legs

Salsa gives you rhythm, flexibility and most importantly, toned legs. With pivots, slides and swivels, salsa is one of the best types of dancing for working your legs due to its fast-paced focus on the lower half of your body. You’ll burn over 420 calories from a 60 minutes session.

Jazz For Your Bum

Because jazz generally stays low to the ground, it's one of the best dance workouts for your butt. It helps keeps your body aligned and the dance moves accurate. When moving to this sassy dance style, you can burn up to 400 calories in 60 minutes.

Belly Dance For Your Core

Isolating your tummy is harder than it looks. From belly rolls to shakes and shimmies, you'll feel your core burning and building. With belly dancing, since the focus is mainly on your abs and core, you can get hardcore abs and burn 380 calories per hour with this sexy dance style.

Indian For Arms

Masala Bhangra, the new hot Indian dance style hitting the nation is all about arms, arms, arms. Most of the celebratory-inspired dance moves have your arms and hands waving in the air, without taking them down. Talk about a bicep burn. You'll say goodbye to around 500 calories per hour with this dance style.

Hip-Hop for Cardio

Because there's so much movement involved including all different areas of your body, this is a great cardio workout. From break dancing to jumping up high, you can burn anywhere from 300-700 calories when dancing to this beat for an hour.

Dance For a Toned Bod

You can still get a toned body without going to the gym—dance your way fit.

* Sweat with Slumdog—what's your dance DVD workout?
* Burn more calories at the dance club
* Twist & shout your way to a cleaner home



http://www.neversaydiet.com/slideshow/5-dances-tone

3 comments:

  1. dancing is my favorite hobby

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  2. ..ow i don't know how to dance.. maybe i can try other workouts.

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  3. yes you could also try different workouts, but hey, iven if you do not know how to dance, you could try doing some of these. it's not that hard i'm sure! baka mag-enjoy ka pa! :)

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