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Dance Articles

  • 4 Ways to do Salsa Dance Workouts

    Latin dance has become a favorite lifestyle activity and is a great way to stay in shape. Get the long and lean look of a dancer while also keeping your body fit with cardio workouts. Rent Latin d...

  • 5 Ways to Prevent Common Hip Hop Dance Injuries

    Dance-related injuries are more common than most Dancers realize. Dance is a sport, and Dancers must take their sport seriously to prevent injuries. Hip hop involves extreme movements, so it's imp...

  • 4 Ways to do Hip Hop Grinding

    ...re are many steps and styles of hip hop dancing depending on how the dancer learns or is taught hip hop. A big part of hip hop dancing is attitude, adapting a feeling to fit the dance culture of...

  • 3 Ways to Teach Hip-Hop Abs

    ...p-hop abs takes the long-time notion of dancing off weight and combines it with a fun and dynamic ab-specific workout regime that has wonderful results for many people. Part of learning how to t...

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Food for Thought

Jamba Juice Smoothie - Mango-A-Go-Go

...s make your taste buds skip, prance and dance! Sun-ripened mangos contain antioxidants like Vitamin C and Beta Car...

Calories: 600     Fat: 2.5g     Cholesterol: 5mg     Sodium: 70mg     Total Carbohydrates: 142g     Fiber: 5g     Sugars: 129g     Protein: 4g     Vitamin C: 150%    

Related Exercises and Activities

Jazz Dancing

Jazz dancing can be a fun, high-energy workout that engages all of the core muscles as you move to the music. The da...

Swing Dancing

Swing dancing is a pouplar dance routine that was developed in the 1920s era. Swing dances are typically choreograph...

Swing dancing

From Wikipedia: The term "swing dance" is commonly used to refer either to a group of dances developing in respons...

Dancing: fast, ballet, twist

Dance generally refers to movement used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or pe...

Ballet

...pedia: Ballet is a specific academic dance form and technique which is taught in ballet schools according to sp...

Dancing - samba

Samba dancing can be a great cardio workout, and engages the thighs, hips, glutes and calves. You'll be using your c...

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Conversations On Dance

  • Who else does Belly Dance?


    • Posted On December 21, 2008 05:47:57 PM

      ...a hobby now. Even 30 minutes of intense dancing with fast music works up a sweat. Who else does it? Do you take classes? Do it on your own? What style? And here is a question....what's your wea... Read More

    • Posted On December 23, 2008 05:26:45 PM

      I belly dance -- and have done so for years. I started out doing just Egyptian style, then I took some Turkish, now I'm studying for my certification in American Tribal Style using the FCBD meth... Read More

  • hip-hop dancing ...


    • Posted On April 17, 2008 05:28:24 AM

      does anyone use dance dvds?? ive been using a hiphop dance dvd n it is soo good!! u burn off calories while havin fun! would defo recommand dance dvds 2 people who wanna burn off calories in a f... Read More

    • Posted On April 17, 2008 05:42:49 AM

      I have a belly dance one and was thinking about getting the Carmen Electra Strip Aerobics DVDs but I don't have good coordination so I won't do them in front of people... Problem is I'm never home ... Read More

  • Have you ever tried a dance class at the gym?


    • Posted On July 30, 2008 09:43:16 AM

      ...bunch of different classes like - power dance and hip hop funk! I can't dance for sh*t, but I'm kinda interested to try them. I'm too embarassed to go alone but I keep thinking about it. Anyone... Read More

    • Posted On July 30, 2008 10:19:09 AM

      My gym offers dance classes also. I've tried the zumba and a hip hop class. Don't be embarassed to go alone. Believe me I have no groove, everyone in the class had a great time trying to do what th... Read More

  • Ballroom Dance or "Dancesport"


    • Posted On October 1, 2008 09:47:00 AM

      ...yfriend and I recently started ballroom dance lessons. Right now we are beginners,moving really slowly and just trying to learn the steps, so it's not much of a work out. But we have a ton of ... Read More

  • Dance Dance Revolution


    • Posted On May 25, 2008 07:32:43 AM

      logging it as modern dance would probably be your best bet. Or if you have the DDR that calculates your cals burned you could just enter them manually. :] Read More

    • Posted On May 25, 2008 11:48:41 AM

      ...iNM":106j3xzk]logging it as modern dance would probably be your best bet. Or if you have the DDR that calculates your cals burned you could just enter them manually. :] oh yeah thats reall... Read More

  • Dance Dance Revolution tracking


    • Posted On January 7, 2008 05:35:10 AM

      I've just used "dancing" and tracked the number of minutes. It is possible to go through a whole DDR workout that I like better than one dance at a time. My workout (which is not yet customized) is... Read More

    • Posted On January 7, 2008 02:06:21 AM

      If this has been discussed before I apologize in advance. I got my daughters DDR Extreme 2 for PS2 and have participated a few times, although at the newbie level (read: not very much huffing and p... Read More

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