Today we can witness how more and more adults all over the world are taking ballet lessons. What's attracting them to the dance studio? Apparently, ballet brings with it tremendous benefits in terms of health, fitness and emotional well-being.
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It’s Christmas time and The Nutcracker strikes again! We are talking, of course, about the famous two-act ballet, with score written by Tchaikovsky himself. Here at Ballet Body Sculpture we want to talk about this show, often played in London and Zurich operas. So what’s all the fuss about?
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There are so many good reasons to improve your posture. But did you know that better posture might actually help you lose weight? Improved posture alone doesn't cause weight loss, but it can affect the factors that make weight loss harder or easier. If you practice good posture for three to five minutes each day, you'll soon find yourself checking your posture and making natural corrections throughout the day.
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It’s well known that exercise is vital if you’re looking to lose some weight. But sometimes if you do too much of exercise you might end up overeating as a result. Or, you don't work out enough and then you don't see any results on the scale. So how much exercise to lose weight is really needed?
Researchers and medical experts provide weight loss exercise recommendations per day and per week, not only for slimming down but also to prevent weight regain.
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For most of us stress is a regular part of the day. Some statistics suggest that up to 77 percent of us feel the physical effects of stress on a regular basis in the form of headaches, insomnia, anxiety, weight gain, muscle aches and pains, crankiness, and difficulty focusing. Learning how to deal with it in a healthy way can actually help get rid of some of the worst symptoms.
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With all upcoming Nutcracker ballet workshops as well as long waited holiday season, we’d like to take a closer look at the history of this magical ballet beloved around the world. For many people, attending a performance of "The Nutcracker" is a holiday tradition and an introduction to the world of classical ballet and music.
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Ballet can help you burn a tremendous amount of calories and subsequently lose weight. Ballet involves total-body rhythmic movements that elevate your heart rate, breathing rate, circulation, and muscular activity. In fact, ballet elevates your metabolism 3-6 times above your resting metabolism. In other words, you’ll burn 3-6 times more calories when you’re dancing versus resting.
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Many people wonder how can you learn ballet as an adult? Ballet, unlike any other fitness class has very precise structure which helps you to learn the techniques and practice it as an exercise at any age. For beginners we have selected some basic names and terms to give you a bit on an insight, as well as to make you feel more comfortable at your first lesson:
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We all have expectations when it comes to exercising, achieving goals, learning dance steps, ballet technique or simply losing weight. To maintain what you’ve accomplished, become healthier, fitter, and leaner, stronger – is what drives us to do and take action on our goals. How can you make sure you are successful, whether at the ballet studio, exercising at home, gym, outside, traveling or at home? To begin the process, to make sure you are successful in achieving your best body shape – you must have some effective process in place.
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Many think that ballet is a beautiful fairy tail and reserved only for the little girls or for the physically gifted ones. However, if you look a little deeper you will realise that ballet is an amazing technique, exercise of it’s highest forms, offering the biggest potential for your body as well as for your mind development. The overall wellbeing.
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