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Does anyone do this? Dance to get in shape and have fun?

I'm not overweight, but I am deffinatly out of shape. I'm going to start going to a Jazz Dance class this Friday for a couple times a week. Hopefully I will be able to get in shape and have some fun. Has anyone tried this or does anyone do this?

No but you gave me a VERY good idea!! Have fun!

Yes, dancing is great exercise but you need fast paced music and really let go in arm and body movements... Rock n Roll 4ever... Martial arts is good also if you do leg kicking, arm blocking, and punching drills.

I just starve, lol. When I was younger, I used to dance CONSTANTLY (ha, and my parents say I never gave them any indication!)... I didn't stop until I had a huge incision for an appendectomy and was out of commission for two months... I learned to enjoy more sedentary pleasures, then. *naps*

Seriously, though, dancing is a great workout... if I had a ground-floor apartment, I'd get in shape with dance dance revolution. I have a friend who lost 100 pounds in a year with that damn thing. Unfortunately, when I try to play here, my neighbors downstairs start making voodoo dolls of me...

yes i was always dancing and it does keep u in shape i cant dance at the minute coz of knee surgery but will do as soon as

Water aerobics is cool too ....at the mo im dancing in my chair

WOW I am new here and I just love it. Like a pink cloud of friends (hope that doesn't make you hurl).
Anyway I have not started hornones yet but would love to take ballet. Right now that I am 53, 5'9 and 200 whoppin lbs, I would feel very out of place taking ballet but I know it is so good for us.
I think I would look like a bowling ball stuffed in a rubber glove.
I did have a friend encourage me to get a leotard and tights. I have to laugh rather than cry about that.
Do you think it would be OK to take ballet going as a man and wear a leotard?
And Oh yeah dance to get into shape of course.

Terri, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. I had a friend who did a year of dance classes as a boy right up to maybe a few months before she went full-time, so it's not something that hasn't been done before. After her FFS she went back to the dance instructor and reintroduced herself. If it sounds like something you'd like to do (as a boy or a girl) I'd say go for it!

I'm all about bellydance, as you may guess. The studio I go to has a regular class called 'Powerbelly', where you basically don a 15 pound weight belt, and bellydance for an hour. It's all shimmies, isometrics, and core exercises.

Most intense workout I've ever had. And there's a lot of stretching exercises which help make lithe muscles. It also pulls in your middle for a more hourglass figure.

No, you about belly dancing Roxanne ? Noooooo ! =) I think ten minutes of Powerbelly would kill me .

Dancing is not only good to get the body in shape, but the mind too.