Have you been watching those great dancing reality shows like Dancing With The Stars and So You Think You Can Dance? You have? Great! Have you noticed a striking physical similarity all the dancers possess? Yes, most if not all of them are in wonderful physical shapes with slim and well toned bodies. This could not possibly be a coincidence, isn’t it?

Dancing is a fantastic and yet enjoyable way for people of all ages and gender to get and stay in good physical shape. Besides being fun, regular dancing also has many positive health benefits as can be seen from the fitness level and body shapes of professional dancers. Here are some health and social benefits you can get from dancing regularly.

Improves your posture – Good dancers are elegant in the way they move and hold their postures. Good postures make you look good and confident and at the same time have positive benefits for your skeletal and muscular health.

Improves your self esteem and confidence – Since you are performing and dancing in the public arena, you will gradually build up your self esteem and confidence. Furthermore, as dancing is a social activity you will be making more friends with the same interest leading to many opportunities such as developing relationships, business opportunities and other benefits arising from social networking.

Improves your flexibility – The days of creaking bones and stiff joints are over. Dancing requires a great amount of flexibility and there will be many stretching dance moves you have to execute. All dancers strive to achieve full range of motion for all the major muscle groups and thus can increase your mobility, flexibility and can keep muscle and bone degeneration diseases at bay. As your flexibility and mobility increase, you will feel lighter, healthier and much younger.

Increase in strength – Dancing builds strength by forcing your muscles to resist against your own body weight. Dance moves especially in some ballroom dancing forms such as salsa requires you to lift your partners. Furthermore other dance styles like in jazz and ballet require you to jump and leap quite a lot. This is where dancers get to develop their muscularity and muscle tone to have such sexy bodies.

Improves Cardiovascular health and endurance stamina – Dancing is a very physical exercise which can make you puff and pant. Therefore it can improve your cardiovascular health and increase your endurance stamina so that you will not get tired easily and can have a healthy heart and lungs because you are exercising them through dancing.

Improves your sexual health – Since certain types of dance forms require vigorous movements and the use of strength, this will increase your growth hormone and testosterone levels. The increased human growth hormones can make you look and feel younger whereas increased level of testosterone can help you to improve your sexual health especially if you are a man.

Relief stress – Dancing is also a great way to relief stress, anxiety and depression. This is because you will also be releasing happy hormones such as dopamine, endorphin and serotonin. At the same time, your stress hormone cortisol is being depressed. Is it any wonder why dancers are always smiling?

So if you want to improve your health and general well being and at the same time have fun, why not dance more regularly?

Author Bio: Chris Chew is a sought after fitness and relationship consultant who counts models, actors and other celebrities as his clients. If you want to start dancing now, then read Salsa dance lesson and Good singer singing lesson

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