How to get fit body just like Samba Dancers in Brazil?

The dance form of Samba Montclair truly replicates the rich culture and history of Brazil. Although it needs full strength of your body, it basically addresses on your legs, torso and glut muscles. In order to get in shape of a Brazilian dancer, first of all, you have to focus on improving core strength of lower body. But you also have to focus on upper body. You can make your upper body well-toned and firm by doing strengthening exercises of arm and chest.

Exercises with Samba Dancing

1.   Arm & Chest: Although samba dancing and other ballroom dance lessons address basically on lower body, you should also control arm movements to make dance moves more fluid. You have to do regular arm and chest exercises if you want to gain well-toned upper body and become strong and more graceful samba dancer. The dance exercises of samba are choreographed by the instructors. In order to do this workout, just side to side sway your arms. Then, take your fingertips around the chest and make sure it is touching the rib cage on the opposite side. This way, you can rock the torso from back to front.

2.   Core Workouts: To gain fitness as a samba dancer, you should have firm and toned core. Without common crunches and sit-ups, samba and other toning workouts focus on abs. This way, you can perform exaggerated but basic samba exercises which help you concentrate on abs and cores. The abdominal samba workout is said to be the isolation of rib cage. Other dance forms, such as belly dance, also use this exercise.

3.   Leg Exercises: If you want to gain well-toned and strong legs, you should involve samba into your exercise routine which focuses mainly on lower body muscles. By using thighs, knees and hamstrings, leg swings are very effective and simple. In order to do this exercise, first stand in front of the chair with holding its edge by left hand. Put your body balance on left leg swinging the right one as far as possible from front side to back. In order to avoid injuries on lower back and hamstrings bent your leg slightly.

4.   Gluteal Workout: This type of workout addresses mainly on large glut muscles, which are also known as buttocks. This workout also firms the gluts and tones them with various moves of Samba. It improves metabolism with doing leaps and jumps with firming and shaping the buttocks.

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