Dance Styles vs Fitness

Becoming fit is not an easy affair. There are various sacrifices and hard work involved in being healthy and disease free. If you are a fitness freak, you would know that exercising as well as fitness activities keep one mentally sharp and physically active. And different dance styles even play a major role in your health.

Now the amount of physical fitness and results that dance style and exercising gives is the same, but dance being a unique art form provides a great amount of flexibility and posture which could be beneficial in your day to day life. Seriously, making a basic comparison between both the forms of exercising or physical endurance is advantageous; however, one needs to know more about the different forms of dancing before making any kind of conclusion.

Jazz

This is a cool form of dancing as the style depends greatly on the expression, improvisation, originality, etc. If you are an individual who is original and at times a little quirky, then this dancing is apt for you. It consists of dramatic and bold movements including the body isolation and contractions.

Ballet

Not only being the main backbone of dancing, this cool dance form has been there for various centuries. There are various genres and styles of dancing related to the basic fundamentals of ballet. The ballet is a particular kind of dance form which uses dance as well as music to narrate a story and it often transforms the audience to another era. A captivating and graceful dancing form.

Hip Hop

In today’s era and time, Hip-hop is one of the popular dance forms among people. What gave this kind of dancing a great boost is the amount of influence various dancing competitions and programs are presented in TV. However, the bad reputation and press factor has made this form of dancing controversial. There are various moves involved in hip-hop like krumping, popping, breaking, etc.

Ballet

Not only being the main backbone of dancing, this cool dance form has been there for various centuries. There are various genres and styles of dancing related to the basic fundamentals of ballet. The ballet is a particular kind of dance form which uses dance as well as music to narrate a story and it often transforms the audience to another era. A captivating and graceful dancing form.

Tap

This is the kind of dance form where the dancers wear brand new clothes as well as special kind of shoes which have metal soles, providing a drum feeling so that a good rhythm is created. Various movies and movie stars have shown their tapping skills and bought about a great amount of excitement and enjoyment in dancing. Of course, the amount of investment for this of dancing is more and is simply inclined to getting the moves right and tap shoes. Getting a tap shoe can be a costly affair but on a long run it can be beneficial.

Modern

With regard to classical dancing, there are strict rules in it. So, modern dancing was designed as a rebellion part for the Ballet. While the strict rules are there with regard to classical dancing, but in case of modern dancing, it is quite relaxed and allows you to relieve the stress that has been troubling you.

Frankly, there are various forms of dancing and each and every one of them provides required results. The upgradation is indeed effective and provides a greater means to keep the body fit and mind stress-free with regard to fitness related exercises.

Author

Saravavan Nadarajan (Vanan)

Vanan, fitness expert and leader at EzFit Singapore, specializes in holistic training—home-based, boot camps, and corporate fitness—with over a decade of industry experience.

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