Dancing for Fitness: Benefits, Calories, and Techniques

Dance is a powerful full-body workout that can burn over 500 calories per hour while improving coordination and hip flexibility. Discover the physics behind dance movements and learn conditioning exercises to build strong, lean muscles like a ballerina.

How Does Ballet Help Your Fitness Level?

Published Oct,05 2017 | By Judy Fisk

Even if you're starting ballet as a beginner, regular dancing can boost your fitness level through cardio activities and strength and flexibility training.

How to Loosen Up Your Hips While Dancing

Published Aug,17 2011 | By Judy Fisk

Trained dancers consider flexible hips an asset. Greater range of motion in the hip sockets results in easier, freer movement in the entire midsection.

Judy Fisk has been writing professionally since 2011, specializing in fitness, recreation, culture and the arts. A certified fitness instructor with decades of dance training, she has taught older adults, teens and kids. She has written educational and fundraising material for several non-profit organizations and her work has appeared in numerous major online publications. Fisk holds a Bachelor of Arts in public and international affairs from Princeton University.