Dance to reap health benefits

In this week's challenge you must Dance Away the Pounds. Dancing is great fun but it can also be an excellent way to improve your physical health. Regular dancing can improve your overall quality of life and can ward off a number of common diseases. Dance also brings in the ability for self-expression and a great element of recreation. Put your favorite track and dance, it's a great way to get moving and burn calories while you have fun solo or with friends. Dance like aerobics utilizes all parts of the body to give you a complete workout. A simple jazz or hip hop routine could effectively burn around 300 calories and simultaneously workout all your muscle groups. Dancing burn calories, increase muscle tone, and improve flexibility without feeling like you're exercising. And you learn how to dance at the same time. There's no boredom and you're constantly moving so the workout is over before you feel like you want to quit.

Different Dance Forms to Lose Weight:

1. Freestyle

   This dance form enables you to move freely without bothering about the dance steps or body movements. This is the easiest of all dance forms and can be practiced by all age groups. Apart from causing weight loss, it also makes your body more flexible. This dance form can be performed on any type of loud music and you can increase your pace by dancing anyway you like. The beats should be fast to boost up your energy levels and teases you to dance non-stop. This dance should be practiced every day for 30 minutes to lose weight.

2. Zumba

   Zumba is one of the most demanding dance styles all over the world for its convenience in style and output. For best results, zumba workout should be done at least 2 to 3 days a week.

3. Jazzercise

   Jazzercise builds muscles during the workout through the use of barbells and dumbbells. Apart from these, it involves some classic Pilates and yoga movements which lengthen muscles while cardio boxing moves give an aerobic workout.

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