Many girls who love beauty want to learn to dance Latin dance to lose weight, but they are afraid that it will be difficult to learn, or they are afraid of gaining muscles by dancing Latin dance. In fact, as long as you pay attention to some details when dancing Latin dance, it is not a problem to create perfect curves. Here I will teach you a complete guide to Latin dance to lose weight and shape your body, so that you can lose weight wherever you want.
Body Shaping 1: Head and Neck
Many dances can help you lose weight, but there are very few dances that can reduce weight on the face and neck. Latin dance can do this, the key lies in how you reduce it.
Key point (1): Head direction
The head of Latin dance rotates following the body and dance. When your body is facing forward, make sure your head is looking straight. Generally speaking, raising your head slightly will give people a noble feeling when dancing. Don't raise your head too high, just raise it slightly. The effect of this is to help slim the pinched parts of the face and stretch and tighten the flesh.
Key point (2): Neck rotation
When the head turns with the dance, Latin dance requires turning the head quickly and powerfully, unlike other dances where the head turns slowly and slowly. There wasn't much activity around. In this regard, Latin dance can flexibly move the neck, tighten the neck muscles and rotate back and forth to help reduce the fat on the jaw and neck as soon as possible.
Body Shaping 2: Shoulders and Arms
Many people feel that they have more flesh on their shoulders, while others feel that they have more arms and hands. All I can say is that people who dance Latin dance don’t have any fat on their bodies. However, it is difficult to learn how to move from the shoulders to the arms in Latin dance.
Key Point (1): Shoulder Drive
The shoulder is a very critical part in Latin dance. Whether your gestures are beautiful or not, the key point is how to use the shoulder. The swing of Latin dance gestures is not just the movement of the big arm driving the forearm, but the movement of the shoulder. How to drive requires deep understanding and consistent practice. Your shoulders will be very painful and sore during early exercises. Once you get used to it, you will find how easy it is to lift your shoulders. The thing to note is to lift your shoulders, not to let you shrug your shoulders upwards. That is wrong.
Key Point (2): Arm Swing
It’s no problem if you want to lose weight on your arms! The key is how you move them. Meizhixuan is useless if you just throw her around. Latin dance is a whole-body trunk movement. When dancing, you need to contract the muscles of the whole body. Maybe I can’t lose weight? Latin dance hands are tough, powerful, and fast. It's not something that can be achieved with just a few flicks. So driving through the shoulders is part of it, and the other part is relying on long-term training to make your arms stronger and slender. Be sure to keep your arms straight when practicing, except for some specific bending movements. For example, the New York Step of Cha Cha requires strong and fast throws. Pay attention to your fingers. You must follow the speed and use your wrists flexibly.
Body shaping three: waist and butt
Many people dance Latin dance to reduce waist and butt fat. Indeed, Latin dance can lose the most in a short period of time in these two places. According to effective statistics, a master who seriously dances an entire Latin dance needs to consume the same amount of calories as running 500 meters. In Rumba or Cha Cha dance, the waist turns no less than 80 times. The weight loss effect can be imagined.
Key point (1): waist rotation
This is the essence of Latin dance. No dance can turn the waist as flexibly as Latin dance. Many foreign dancers have waist rotations greater than 150 degrees. Turning back and forth like this makes it difficult to lose weight. Many beginners don’t know how to turn. Swinging left and right is not turning. Many beginners feel that they are turning, but in fact, in the eyes of others, they are still swinging left and right. Simply put, turning is turning your butt back and forth. The initial training is to stretch your hands shoulder-width apart, hold on to the parallel handles, raise your heels and turn your butt back and forth. Gradually get used to it and then add strength to your waist, hips, legs and knees. Let’s talk about a deeper topic. After you can rotate, try to bring the hip bones and add the knees. The hip bones should move up and down. The correct posture is to use your upper and lower body to press your waist. It’s not that the body is falling down!
The key point (2): the role of the butt
Want to know why the buttocks of women who dance Latin dance are so up and elastic? In fact, when dancing in Latin, Even if you don't move, your buttocks should be contracted and tilted upward. When doing Latin dance, your buttocks should be tightened. Of course, you must also remember to tighten your abdomen! How can you dance with a full belly? Don’t let your buttocks relax when you turn your waist. You must remember to keep tilting up and tighten it. Day after day, one Latin dance lasts for more than 4 minutes. Keep going like this. It won't take long for your butt to naturally rise. When dancing, clamp it tightly and don't relax, so that you can exercise the muscles on your PP and there won't be any excess flesh.
Body Shaping Four: Legs and Feet
Key Points (1): Legs
Latin dance legs are very crucial. The first is the support point of the body. On the legs, if the legs are not strong, the whole person will not be able to stand, let alone dance well. There are three most tiring places in Latin dance: 1. the hands, 2. the waist, and 3. the legs. These three places almost never rest during the entire dance. Therefore, when dancing Latin dance, the legs must be used properly. The legs need to cooperate with the feet. The legs must give strength to the feet, and the feet must have a measure of force. Because Latin dance is danced in high heels, standing up is more tiring.
The fat on your legs will naturally disappear. Secondly, the method of exerting force in Latin dance is very unique, which can make your legs thinner and thinner without growing any muscle mass. As for the theoretical reason, it's a combination of feet and overall dance movement.
Points to note: During dancing, be careful not to let your body fall down. Pull up from the waist up, and push your legs down. Make a clear distinction between exertion and not fall. The strength of the legs is given to the feet, as if they are digging a hole in the ground.
Key Point (2): Feet
The legs give strength, how do you use your feet to use this power? Improper use will make you very tired and you will not be able to dance well. nice. First of all, you need to learn how to shape your feet. In Latin dance, except for bullfighting and samba, where you can walk on your heels, the other three dances are not allowed to walk on your heels. There are only a few dance steps where you can walk on your heels in samba. Only the balls of the feet are allowed when walking. Therefore, when walking, a large amount of the strength of the legs is given to the soles of the feet rather than to the heels. Generally, Latin dance teachers will teach some basic body shape or ballet basics before teaching. The purpose is to allow students to quickly adapt to the coordination and direction of the legs and feet. Pay attention to your toes. The 5th and 5th toes must firmly grasp the ground to prevent instability when walking quickly or turning in circles. Also, if you are not used to wearing high heels for dancing in the early stage, it is recommended that the heel should not be too high.
Body sculpting five: basic body shape, Latin dance posture
Finally, let’s talk about the most critical issue, which is posture. Many people who perform weight loss exercises or exercise exercise in a physical way without adding dance and music harmony. The music tone of Latin dance is very unique, and its counting method is different from other dances. When dancing Latin dance, the dance steps should be combined with the music to achieve a harmonious state.
Key point (1): Body
All the content taught in body classes can be applied to Latin dance. Latin dance is all-inclusive and not exclusive. What you need to pay attention to is: hold your chest up, draw in your abdomen, expand your shoulders, and stand straight with your legs close together. The entire body should be in a straight line. Breathe evenly and master your balance and size when walking.
Key Point (2): Basic postures of Latin dance
After mastering the above physical content, you must pay attention to the following points when dancing Latin dance:
1. Raise your head slightly to give others a noble feeling (not too high~)
2. Lower your shoulders and open your arms naturally in a semicircular posture. Don't use force and don't lift up.
3. Tighten the abdomen and lift the buttocks. The buttocks must be tilted upward, and be careful to keep it. After a while, you will naturally get used to it.
4. Keep your legs close together. When dancing, the straight feet need to be extended backwards. This is called "super extension" in Latin dance.
5. The shape of the foot is that the heels are close together and the forefoot is opened at about 45 degrees. When the feet are turned together at the hips, the heels are not allowed to open. Keep your toes pointed outward when dancing. Don't be pigeon-toed.