Belly Dancing for Weight Loss

Dancing is a great way to shed the extra weight and burn calories. Particularly Belly dancing is a very challenging dance form that helps you to firm and tone your body besides loosing excess weight.

Belly dancing session can help you in burning 250-300 calories in an hour. The amount of calories can rise depending on your intensity and frequency of workout.

Infact you can destroy the same calories while belly-dancing as you do while swimming, walking or riding. Belly Dance classes can range from a lot of full body movement to figuring out rhythm and movements.

If weight loss is your target then choose a class or an instructor accordingly. Make sure you do a lot of footwork also as larger leg muscles tend to affect weight loss more than smaller group of muscles. If you want to practice belly dance at home make sure you incorporate a lot of movements and have the music to match your steps.

It’s should be very clear that any exercise to work effectively needs a healthy well-balanced diet; same is the case with belly dancing. You can also choose to follow various television sessions on belly dancing or buy a DVD.

Belly dancing strengthens your abdominal muscles, this makes it an important. To yield the best results, one should avoid having unhealthy snacks after your exercise, keep your body hydrated, and avoid alcohol. Belly dancing is an excellent cardio workout but you should incorporate a healthy diet and strength training in your daily regime to gain maximum result.

Total body workout:

A dancer who practices belly dance use their hamstrings, quadriceps, gluts. Belly dancing is a great workout especially for your lower body; but the impact on the knees and ankle is minimal which averts injury.

Back muscles: These dancers use the torsos more than any other form of dance like tap, ballet etc. Only in Jazz the torso is exercised. These torso movements, are accompanied with the movement of your shoulder, by this your all back muscles are exercised evenly. This prevents back injury, and promotes a good posture.

Arms. Belly dancers use their arms as constantly as their legs and belly. They have to keep their arms in a position for a long time, which they have to do gracefully, this need a lot of strength and stamina.

Digestion. When you exercise your abdominal, it helps you in digestion. All exercises have this effect, but in case of belly-dancing especially it is very good.

Belly dance involves a lot of circles, hip movement, etc. that has the ligaments & joints of your low back and hip moving. This increases flow of synovial in the joints. If the movements are properly done they would avert the risk of low back problem.

In long run belly dance helps in correct posture, reducing stress, helps in child birth and of course weight loss.