Looking for something fun and fit to do this Valentine’s Day? Consider recommitting to your relationship with your spouse or significant other in a way that improves your health, your fitness and your intimacy with each other. Ballroom dancing already benefits from the popularity of shows like Dancing with the Stars, but it’s also a way to improve your relationship with your love.
Aerobic Workout
Make no mistake, ballroom dancing is a great way to get your aerobic workout for both of you. Have you ever seen dancers make the kind of moves you can when you are ballroom dancing and not get your heart rate up? What I find a perfect complement in ballroom dancing is not only does it improve your heart by bringing you and your spouse closer, it helps your heart health by strengthening it and making you more resistant to problems with disease and other health concerns.
Ballroom dancing provides you with plenty of flexibility training as well as cardiovascular exercise. It’s also a way of honing your memory because you have to learn the steps and to make a ballroom dance flow, you have to work together.
Provisional Recognition
Still uncertain about ballroom dancing as a form of exercise? Then think on this, the International Olympic Committee gave provisional recognition to the art of ballroom dancing. That recognition is a huge step forward to being recognized as a true athletic activity. That means maybe not in the Olympics of 2008, but perhaps in 2012, you may see ballroom dancing as a competitive sport where dancers can earn Olympic gold, silver or bronze.
When you dance, you improve your coordination and your balance. You can also burn anywhere from 250 to 400 calories per hour. The more demanding the dance, the more calories you will burn. Some demanding dances you might be interested in are the cha cha, the salsa and the samba.
Most dance studios offer reasonable prices on couples lessons and three studios that I know of here in my area offer not only lessons, but an open dance night every weekend where couples who are taking classes can go and dance the night away – getting in practice and even more exercise.
The funny part about this type of exercise is most couples are having so much fun, they forget they are exercising and isn’t that one of the best ways to do it? So this Valentine’s Day, consider doing something together like ballroom dancing – it will do both you and your heart good.
Have you ever taken ballroom dancing lessons?
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