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Health Benefits of Dancing Salsa

Apart from being incredibly fun and enjoyable, dancing provides a wide range of mental and physical health benefits, too.

Dancing Is Good For Your Body

Just like other sports, dancing can increase your overall fitness if you practice regularly. You build up muscle strength and tone, strengthen your cardiovascular system and burn lots of calories. Depending on your weight, one hour of dancing salsa can burn as many calories as one hour of aerobics or running.

Dancing also improves your posture, given that you are usually required to take an upright position.

Dancing is Good For Your Mind

The most amazing effects, however, are those on your mind. When dancing, your body will produce more of the happiness hormone serotonin and if you manage to keep moving for a few hours, your brain will release endorphins that will make you feel happy and relaxed.

Dancing increases the blood flow to your organs, including the brain, which enhances its performance and makes you feel more awake. Also, having to coordinate with the music, the movement and your partner, you will build up new synapses, increase your spatial recognition and memory AND, according to research, reduce your risk of dementia.

In a nutshell

To sum up, dancing can boost your physical and mental fitness in many ways. It makes your body stronger, reduces stress and has a positive effect on your memory. As with all other sports, though, these benefits will only show themselves if you keep dancing regularly.

Further reading:

If you would like to read more on the potential health benefits of dancing, there are plenty of sources available on the World Wide Web. For this entry, I mainly used information I found here:

Note: I am neither a doctor nor a researcher in the field of mental or physical health. The contents above are the result of online research based on my interest in the topic and presented to the best of my conscience and belief.

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