10 Benefits Of Recreational Dance For Seniors And Why You've Got To Try This!

About a year ago, I realized that my kids weren't doing that well in the sports we had signed them up for. After talking with my kids, I realized that there were some serious issues with a few of the things we had taught them, so I started investing more and more time into helping my kids to love the programs. It was incredible to talk with them about what they were struggling with, and I worked with their prospective coaches to figure out the details. Within a few months, it was clear that they were making great progress. This blog is all about helping your kids to enjoy sports.

10 Benefits Of Recreational Dance For Seniors And Why You've Got To Try This!

10 Benefits Of Recreational Dance For Seniors And Why You've Got To Try This!

20 February 2018
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Recreation & Sports, Blog


While you may feel like you have more and more reasons to complain about life in your senior years, once you decide to do something about your situation, you may find an enormous flip from negative to positive. Aches, pains, lonely afternoons, and low energy could all be replaced with so many benefits that you'll wonder why you didn't take action much sooner. A recreational dance class at a local dance studio can be the first step in the right direction, and from there, it only gets better.

1. The Social Immersion

It's actually true that you can become ill from loneliness or literally die of a broken heart. Getting out and joining a dance class can easily be one of the best things you can do for your social life and overall health.

2. A Boost For Your Brain

Memory and cognition complaints are common among the elderly, but that doesn't mean you can't do something about these issues. The exercise of dance alone can boost your brain, but learning new steps and routines, too, will fire up new neural pathways, aiding in short- and long-term memory function. 

3. The Help To Your Heart

Heart disease is, unfortunately, a major contributor to fatal conditions across the demographic spectrum. A heart needs a healthy diet, along with regular cardiovascular workout to keep you going strong.

4. Better Balance And Coordination In Everything You Do

One of the more challenging aspects of getting on in years is navigating the increasingly precarious environment. Stairs and walkways you once breezed up without a second thought are now hazards you need to employ slow and deliberate caution with, as your balance, coordination, and other automatic systems show the signs of aging. Through nearly any kind of dance, from ballroom to jazz to swing and everything in between, you're mastering coordination and balance in ways you probably didn't think were possible these days. Watch how the routines in your dance class transfer into your day-to-day living.

5. Alleviating Arthritis And Other Chronic Symptoms

If you're plagued by symptoms of arthritis of any kind, dance should be something highly therapeutic for you. Ask your physician first to make sure a recreational dance class isn't going to be too much for you in any way, then get into the movement of dance and see how it strengthens muscles, increases flexibility, and actually alleviates some of your symptoms. The sad catch-22 of arthritis is that you feel pain from lack of movement, but movement can cause so much pain and discomfort. Take your dance classes as slowly as you need to in the beginning, and gradually increase your participation level as your body allows.

6. Weight Management

As you well know, getting older means that getting around becomes much more difficult; however, that dilemma can be seriously compounded when you weigh more than you should. Depending on your current weight and other factors, you can burn hundreds of calories every hour of dance class, without really feeling like you're fighting weight issues, because you're having so much fun.

7. An Improved Metabolism

You need a good balance between energy (calories) consumed and energy burned, but after a certain age, most people find achieving this balance increasingly difficult. This may lead to a sluggish metabolism, which leaves you feeling tired and unmotivated. Exercise is the catalyst that kicks your metabolic system back into gear, helping you to feel more like yourself. Since dance is one of the best overall exercises, serving your heart, muscles, visual, skeletal systems and more, it's the perfect prescription for a lackluster metabolism.

8. More Energy

Naturally, as more of your body's systems resume a healthy course, you're going to feel more energy returning to your life. That should mean having more energy to exert throughout the day, as well as being able to sleep better at night.

9. Less Stress

Stress is tough to deal with at any age, but when you already have so many other things nipping at your health and wellness, stress can be a deal breaker. It will discourage you from going out as much and may even keep you from answering the phone or visiting with younger children. Stress makes you feel like you need to retreat from life, whereas managing it with authority, like through dance classes, puts you back in control and at the forefront of an exciting and rewarding existence.

10. A Happier You

When you feel healthier, such as following a dance or other exercise class, you tend to feel happier. Between the positive social impact dance can have on your well being and all the physical perks, along with the boost to your self-esteem from doing the right thing for yourself, your happiness meter should definitely be off the charts.

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Helping Your Children To Enjoy Sports

About a year ago, I realized that my kids weren't doing that well in the sports we had signed them up for. After talking with my kids, I realized that there were some serious issues with a few of the things we had taught them, so I started investing more and more time into helping my kids to love the programs. It was incredible to talk with them about what they were struggling with, and I worked with their prospective coaches to figure out the details. Within a few months, it was clear that they were making great progress. This blog is all about helping your kids to enjoy sports.

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