When somebody says who me, dance? They seem to think that they have to be a great dancer. Well the truth is in the realm of exercising and fitness you do not.

The purpose of dance in the realm of fitness is to get people moving, this gets your heart pumping, makes you breathe faster or become slightly breathless and thus becomes aerobic creating a training effect.

All this is done in a dance related fitness or dance class and some people poo poo the idea about how effective this is but many a pound has been stripped in away in an aerobics, salsa, jazz or street dance class.

We seem to forget in our busy lives that the human body was designed to move and not sit there like me and you are doing at this time. So this is the one other way to get the nation off their backside, put on some music and dance like nobody is watching.

“It’s all right for you” they say “you are good at it” but that is not the point it really does not matter what you look like, it’s about how you feel when you are dancing.

The biggest mistake that I have seen some of the world’s greatest teachers of dance and fitness do, is over complicate movements and this is enough to put anyone onto the sideline of the class.

I do not want you to be a sideline participant I have often seen these frustrated people who have paid their money, would like to take part, but all they do is wish that they could follow. Some even get angry and start to bad mouth the instructor.

The instructor should know that when somebody does not get what he or she is teaching they should adapt the class to encompass the stragglers but a large number of them do not.

My advice to you is to find a class that is easy enough for you to follow, with a good teacher that cares about whether you get the movements not one that teaches purely for his or herself.

I have personally been responsible for teaching mass participation classes all over the world and have had the number of participants in the class actually increase by the end of the session… and why is this?.. Purely because the movements are do-able and easy to follow, people get it and they smile and this results in them working harder, this equals more of a training effect thus creating more weight loss…. Yippee!!

So go and dance, be happy, be healthy find a class that you can do and if you have difficulty finding one go home put on you MP3 Player or sound system and dance like nobody is watching.