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Dance Your Way To Fitness

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Dance Your Way To Fitness
Ballroom dancing offers an elegant way to get exercise and socialize. SeventyFour/Shutterstock
Donna Martelli
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Dancing is so much fun it’s easy to forget that it’s doing amazing things for your mind, body, and spirit. It just might be your best exercise. It offers dynamic movement, the uplift of music, and a chance for social connection. Changing your fitness routine to surprise your body and mind is crucial, and dancing is the perfect way to accomplish this.

I was formerly a professional dancer with the Harkness Ballet of New York and director of Fitness Arts at LivRite Fitness in Indianapolis. Dance is a great way to get into shape, which is why many fitness centers feature dance classes.

Tap Dancing

Nadine Egan has danced all her life and is an excellent instructor in several dance techniques. I took two eight-week sessions of Nadine’s tap classes at LivRite and found that besides all of the benefits that she mentions below, tap dancing was excellent for my brain. My mind and body worked hard to figure out how to make the moves I asked of them. After class, I felt both physically and mentally stretched, not to mention relaxed and happy!
Donna Martelli
Donna Martelli
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Formerly a professional dancer with the Harkness Ballet of New York, and faculty member at Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, Donna was Director of Fitness Arts at LivRite Fitness. There, she taught Ballet, Barre, Pilates, Stretch and Conditioning, Personal Training and provided fitness consultations to members. She created Raise the Barre at LivRite, trained, qualified, and managed its instructors, and wrote its training manual. She is the author of “When God Says Drop It” and “Why the Dance,” available wherever books are sold.
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