Benefits of Dance
The World Health Organization calls dancing the best exercise in the world, and after 16 weeks of 90-minute dance practice three times a week, triglyceride levels dropped and good cholesterol levels rose. Physical coordination, agility, balance and gait, muscle strength and so on are improved. Self-esteem was also improved due to the improved physiological state.
Mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease patients often dance square dance, can enhance brain activity and cognitive function, delay the deterioration of the disease. Dance makes significant improvements in the balance, mobility and lower limb muscle strength of the elderly. Doing dance exercises more than once a week reduces the risk of falling by thirty-seven percent, and if the frequency is three times a week or more, the risk of falling can be reduced by fifty-three percent.
It is recommended to limit the length of each dance session to less than one hour, and for those who are in better shape or younger, counting rest breaks, they can last up to 1.5 hours. In accordance with the recommendations of aerobic exercise, you can dance 3 to 5 times a week, which is also the frequency to make the mental health of the best state, at least 2 months to adhere to. The reason why the square dance is popular, not because it is choreographed how professional, how beautiful movement, but in easy to get started.