Lose Weight By Dancing Your Ass Off

Who wouldn't want to learn to dance after watching Dance Your Ass Off? How great would it be to be able to put on some of those moves, and after all who wouldn't want to have all those good looking women or men as dancing partners. I suggest you read the rest of this article before you join some dance course and be surprised.

What escapes some people is that there are basically two parts to dancing. There is the technical aspect and there is the physical aspect. We are going to start with the technical part first.

Looking at the technical side, dance should be easy; it is comprised of a series of steps, done in sequence to the beat of the music. The steps are usually one, two, three, four, for all except the waltz, which is one, two, three. These can be any one of an assortment of steps, side to side, front to back, and so on. The different dances have their own sequences and variations. This is why when you see two different couples dancing, say the tango that it will look different. Really the technical side of dancing is only memorization and coordination.

However, the physical aspect is a different can of worms altogether. What may look like a simple dance step technically, can be physically draining. A lot of the dance steps that you see on the Broadway stage are also very demanding. However, if you're interested in just typical ballroom dancing, for the most part, you don't have to be in magnificent shape.

And that's the great thing about dancing. If you're NOT in great shape, do enough of it and it will GET you into great shape. Ever look at the legs of dancers? I rest my case. Dancing is probably the best exercise that you're ever going to get and the best part about it is that it's plain fun. Not like those boring exercises that you've been doing at home on your treadmill or whatever. Dance Your Ass Off airs every Monday on the Oxygen channel and the first episode airs June 29th at 9:00 pm est.