One look at ballerinas or prominent dancers like Julianne Hough and Jenna Dewan Tatum demonstrates that dancing is no laughing matter. And when you combine parts of dancing with fat-burning workout movements (think squats and jumping jacks), you’ve got yourself a major sweat session on your hands.
In fact, as described in Women’s Health High-Intensity Dance Cardio, dance cardio may be the ultimate workout. For starters, it necessitates continual activity, which raises your heart rate and burns calories like crazy. Second, it’s so much fun that the phrase “exercise weariness” falls out of your lexicon. Furthermore, because this approach employs full-body motions, you are exercising almost all of your muscles at the same time, resulting in total-body toning.
1. Turning jumping jack
Stand with your feet about an inch apart and your arms at your sides. Then, extend your arms out to the sides and over your head at the same time, twist your body 180 degrees, and hop your feet out so they’re slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.
2. Butt kicks
Stand with your feet about an inch apart and your arms at your sides. Jog in place with your feet back. Attempt to bring your heels as near to your buttocks as possible.
3. Skater runs
Cross your left leg behind your right leg and drop into a half-squat with your right arm out to the side and your left arm across your hips. Switch your legs and arms as you hop to the left. Continue jumping swiftly from side to side.
Source: women’s health mag
