CSB - Benefits of Dance

Benefits of Dance

Ballroom dancing has many benefits, from socializing with friends and meeting new people, to exercising just more than your body. Lets take a look at some interesting facts about Fitness and Ballroom Dancing!

Burning Calories

Depending on the style of dancing your doing, you can burn all kinds of calories per hour. To put it simply, the faster the beats of music the more you're gonna burn. Lets take a look at some statistics

For a dancer between 100-150lbs you can burn between 250 to 400 Calories per hour during Disco, Cha Cha Cha, Mambo, Salsa, Cumbia & Merengue. During Samba, Ballet &Fast Dances anywhere from 275 to 500 calories per hour! For our Slow Dances Waltz, Foxtrot, Bachata, Tango, Rhumba & Bolero your looking at 150 to 300 Calories per hour.

For a dancer 175lbs and up, you're looking at a minimum of 500 calories/hour for all your fast dances. For your slower dances as listed above, your going to burn anywhere from 350 to 600 calories/hour.

I'd say that's one way to work out that most people don't even think about!

Making Connections

Dancing with a partner can be taxing, not only physically, but mentally, here's why! When we start dancing, not a predetermined routine, we use critical thinking skills that require split second decisions like when to turn or to move a certain direction. During this process our brain has to use the many many neurons in the brain to create new connections so that we can make these decisions faster and easier. In doing so, our brain is keeping itself young and healthy is also training us how to think critically much faster. In the New England Journal of Medicine there is a study in which they proved that this type of dancing reduced the likeliness of Dementia by 76%