Fun Exercise Ideas: Salsa Dancing
About the Salsa Dance:
Salsa is the Spanish word for “Sauce” denoting a spicy or hot flavor. The Salsa Dance, in true reflection of the word, is a lively, vigorous, fast paced, passionate and flirtatious partner dance (you have to be breaking sweat just reading that line). And of course you dance to the exciting Salsa music.
Watch Salsa In Action:
We found these great set of Salsa videos (including Salsa dance How-To’s) on YouTube from Addicted2Salsa.com: Salsa Videos on YouTube. These are great for an introduction to the Salsa Dance.
Why Salsa:
- It’s fast, vigorous and a lot of fun - especially if you learn it and do it right.
- Great to get your partner on board for your weight management goals. Instead of giving them a lecture on the nutritional qualities of their favorite food (not that there is anything wrong with that), you Salsa with him or her - much sexier.
- Learn about a new culture or simply more of your own by doing something that’s a lot of fun.
- Great calorie burning potential, speaking of which:
Calorie Burning Potential:
350 - 500 an hour - depending on your weight. It’s a fantastic workout. Do it for a year: 3 hours a week for 50 weeks a year = 400 x 3 x 50 = 60,000 Calories Burned or about 17 Pounds (or 7 Kilograms) lost.
How Do You Get Started?
We’ll give you 3 ideas:
- Start with the Addicted2Salsa YouTube videos - They are of course free. And you can judge whether or not Salsa Dancing is for you.
- Grab one of the two highest rated Salsa learning series on Amazon:
- Learn to Salsa Dance Video Series (DVD)
- Volume 1: Salsa Dancing Guide for Beginners | Price: $32.00 | Average Rating:
(Total Reviews: 84)
- Volume 2: Salsa Dancing Guide for Beginners | Price: $36.00 | Average Rating: (Total Reviews: 44)
- Volume 3: Salsa Dancing Guide for Beginners | Price: $36.00 | Average Rating: (Total Reviews: 39)
- Beginners 3 Pack: The Complete Beginners Salsa Dancing Guide | Price: $87.00 | Average Rating: (Total Reviews: 12)
- Volume 1: Salsa Dancing Guide for Beginners | Price: $32.00 | Average Rating:
- The Quick & Dirty Guide to Salsa (DVD):
- Part 1, Beginners | Price: $24.00 | Average Rating :
(Total Reviews: 81) - Part 2, Intermediate | Price: $24.00 | Average Rating: (Total Reviews: 17)
- Part 3, Advanced | Price: $27.00 | Average Rating: (Total Reviews: 6)
- Part 4, Team Dancing | Price: $27.00 | Average Rating (Total Reviews: 6)
- 4 DVD Boxed Set | Price $80.00 | Average Rating: (Total Reviews: 2)
- Part 1, Beginners | Price: $24.00 | Average Rating :
- 3. Look for Salsa classes in your local area. Currently the best options to find Salsa classes in your local area are the Online Yellow Pages or Yahoo! Local.
Salsa Tips:
- Apart from the actual Salsa dance learning videos we’ve mentioned above, there are also Salsa workout videos available. Skip the workout videos and learn the actual dance. You can Salsa with your partner but can you do a Salsa workout?
- Aim for a competition. If you really enjoy Salsa, make it your goal to enter a Salsa competition - any competition - in 1 year’s time. This will give you extra motivation to continue.
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