Dancing Your Way to Weight Loss

Dancing is great exercise and a great way to lose weight. Why? Think about it. What do you do when you dance? You move your feet, legs, arms, and your whole body whenever you hear a catchy beat. Before you know it, you're having so much fun you don't even realize you're exercising. Following are five effective ways you can dance your way to fitness and weight loss. 1. Dance to Dance DVDs - If you don't know how to dance or don't want to come up with your own dance moves, you can purchase dance DVDs. Some dance DVDs that you can buy are Zumba Fitness: Total Body Transformation System DVD set, Dance X Everybody's Workout Total Body Cardio, Cardio Burn: Dance For Weight Loss, and Dance Off the Inches: Hip Hop Party. You can watch these and dance along with them either by yourself or with a friend or a group of friends. You can also purchase Richard Simmon's Sweating To the Oldies which is a VHS tape. 2. Dance to Dance games for video game systems - You can purchase dance games for Playstation, Xbox, and Wii. For example, you can buy Michael Jackson: The Experience for the Wii and Xbox 360 Kinect, and learn how to dance like Michael Jackson. You can also buy Just Dance, and Just Dance 2 for the Wii to follow the dance moves and learn how to dance. You can buy Sing Star Dance and sing and dance for Playstation. These games are a lot of fun. You can dance by yourself or with a friend or a group of friends with these games. 3. Join a Dance Class - You can take dancing lessons. It will get you out of the house and is a great way to meet other people. You can learn how to do the Salsa, Zumba, Hip Hop, or any other kind of dance that gets you up and moving. 4. Go Out to a Dance Club - There are many dance clubs you can go to that play different types of music. Some play country music, 80's music, oldies music, alte ative music, today's dance music or a variety of music. You can get a group of friends and go out and dance the night away. This is something you can do on the weekends. It is a lot of fun and great way to relieve stress from the workweek. 5. Dance Using an MP3 player - You can get one that comes with an armband or purchase an arm band, and dance as you listen to music. If you do, make sure you are moving your arms, legs, feet and your whole body in order to get your heart rate up. Some MP3 players you can buy are RCA Flash, Samsung, Sandisk Clip, and Apple Ipod. The more intense and longer your dance workout is, the more calories you will burn. To maximize the amount of calories burned, you should dance at a fast pace for at least 30 minutes each dance session, and do this at least 3 to 5 days a week. Before doing this, check with your doctor to make sure you are healthy enough to do any type of intense workout. If you like to dance, you can start dancing using any or all five of the ways described above. This eliminates boredom and exercises different parts of your body. So Have fun dancing. Here's to your weight loss and getting healthier.