Outdoor Recreation: Gear Maintenance, Safety & Fitness

Leisure activities like kayaking or rock climbing provide significant wellness benefits when coupled with proper gear maintenance and safety skills.

Dancing

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.