Last month a lady came to me for a consultation with regard to her
daughter, all of about 14 or 15 years old for some elbow related issue.
While in the course of discussion I noticed that the young girl was
slightly obese. Just out of concern, I generally quizzed her on what
sports she was into, her mother cut in and said she was into classical
dancing and that was taking up her extra time and hence she had no time
for sports or any other forms of fitness activity. She also went
on to convey that since her daughter was getting the needed exercise
from dancing, she didn’t need anything extra.
This got me thinking about the numerous times I have had this conversation with professional and amateur dancers who are very complacent in the thought that their dancing and the practice that went into their performances were adequate exercise. ‘Dancing is not aerobic exercise’ was the take away that I read from a recent article in an international journal of Sports and Exercise medicine.
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This got me thinking about the numerous times I have had this conversation with professional and amateur dancers who are very complacent in the thought that their dancing and the practice that went into their performances were adequate exercise. ‘Dancing is not aerobic exercise’ was the take away that I read from a recent article in an international journal of Sports and Exercise medicine.
Read the article in the site
Finally .....we have an expert saying that . I have been trying to tell my students that just dancing is not enough....cross training is so important....great to know this is being discussed.....
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