Dancing for Excercise
 

Do you think it is wrong if you dance for excercise. NOT at a club.

Since they have the series out Dancing with the Stars they keep showing/telling how much weight they are losing doing these dance rountines.

How do you think that would differ from going to a workout club?

How expensive to you think it would be compared to workout clubs?

Would you be for or against this?

**Now do I sound like Thad? ;)

All I know is that after a couple of hours at any given dance class or a few hours at a "Wine & Roses" formal dance, it felt like I had been at the gym for the same amount of time.

After my husband and I watched "Shall we Dance," we thought about going to the local college and taking a class. We never got around to it but I think it would be fun.

I think it would be a fun way to exercise. Here, we would just have to pay to take the class. Several different dance options are available. I would be for it.

Should I ask what is a Wine and Roses?

Wine & Roses is the name of the dance club. The hold very formal, monthly, ballroom dances.

I see. Do you know how to ballroom dance?

I took lessons and competed for 8 years.

This was from a rumba competition (our first time before judges). About 5 or 6 years ago now.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...aandRandy6.jpg

Is "Shall we Dance" another type of contest?

Is that your wife with you?

No, it was my dance partner. I had many of them. :)

Oh, ok.

Was it expensive to learn?

It does get costly. I won't lie about that.

Here is another couple from our group. (They are married.)
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...AlandMaria.jpg

By the way, my wife doesn't dance. Not one lick. In fact, she dances about as well as Barney Fife sings. So, I haven't been on a dance floor in nearly four years. LOL

:shockamoo

Just get up during church. Most song services last at least 15 - 30 minutes. Doing a fierce "shockamoo" for that long 3 times a week will truly burn some calories.

With the meds I'm on weight gain is inevitable. They told me that after I had put on 30+ pounds. I'm now at 40+. I eat between 1500 and 2000 calories a day and log every bite. My exercise however is sporadic at best.

Going through this it's occured to me that what I need is something that is "cultural" and routine to provide the workouts I'm missing. Our earliest ancestors had the daily routine of running from cave bears to supply the needed burn. Once we killed off the biggest predators things have tended toward idleness and ease. Hunting one another helps, but that's increasing frowned upon- and nukes make it pretty much an idle thing as well.

Our Western societies really do need to implement some sort of trend, fashion or fad that is easier on the joints than jogging was but still provides the aerobics needed by our increasingly obese citizens.

I think dancing would be a great answer. Or the martial arts work-outs, which pretty much equate to line dancing anyway. We would be doing our culture a great benefit if we could tame the shockamoo and harness its energies more toward a vertical aspect of worship that invites other to participate in the "dance" of the redeemed.

Just a thought. What's wrong with dancing anyway? Just look at Hebrews for a good example of what I'm trying to describe here.

But at least switching to Geico was STILL easy enough for them!

Well, I agree with the need for regular activity/exercise, but since I've got two left feet, I have requested a bike for my birthday. I haven't rode a bike since my daughter was a baby, but before that, I was always on a bike. I think that is a great exercise for people who are looking for something less jarring on the joints! And it's fun!

(actually, for the sake of truthfulness, I ordered my bike yesterday, my parents will be out of the country on my birthday and they told when I found what I wanted to order it! So I did!)

:slaphappy :slaphappy :slaphappy

I would love to learn!

I like Shall We Dance, Save the Last Dance, Footloose, Dirty Dancing.....shall I go on? I love movies with dancing in them!

Shall we Dance was a good movie, except Vannesa Williams would NOT have won 1st place at the end of the film based on her routine.

:shhh Vanessa was in Dance With Me.

Shall We Dance was J. Lo and Richard Gere.

Oops.... You are right!

http://www.dvdbooty.com/images/dance...me_220x312.jpg

But a very good movie all the same.

Yes it was. And a very clean movie.

You right, it was.... One of those movies that you realize half way through, that you could show to just about anyone and not be embarressed.

(We just saw Walk the Line and that one almost fit into that category as well.)

Oh man, I haven't seen that one yet. I want to.

I never really liked the musician-bio type film, but this one was very very good. Johnny Cash was not a pure-as-the-wind-driven-snow character, but he was good enough to turn his life around at one point and never look back. June Carter saw to that.

I liked the movie also. I didn't let my son see it because of the drug references. Of course, he's only eleven.

My family goes bike riding a lot. We enjoy it. Plus it is something we can do together.

I don't think anyone under 13 (or 14 or 15) would really understand and appreciate it anyways.

I agree.

You forgot Flashdance! :snapout

I never was much of a Flashdance fan.....:dunno

Both my bio-father and my mother taught ballroom dancing at Arthur Murrays...way back in the day. They stayed slim and trim. The best I ever looked was when I was first single and my girl friend and I went every Friday and Saturday night to the single's dances.

We danced the fast dances with all our other girl-friends and the slow dances we would dance with the men that would ask us to dance. I always danced with the white-collar workers in dress pants and shirt and my friend would dance with the men in jeans with pony tails. :pirate

It was the most fun I had single and it kept the weight off and the fun times rolling in. I stopped doing that 5 years ago when I moved to Florida and took up dancing with Jesus. I love to 'shout'.

Someday I hope to have a husband that likes to dance...we'll put on the old victrola and dance the night away:)!:hypercoffee

Blessings, Rhoni

I can dance a bit myself , I can do the Funky Chicken.

I remember some of my Baptist cousins being over for dinner one Saturday, and the kids and I had turned on some choir music and we were dancing around the kitchen, acting silly while we were cooking dinner...until I happened to catch a glance of my prudish relatives shocked faces....LOL!!!! I skidded to a stop....but...I said that to say....

I hope you dance. :)

Growing up in a very conservative church, I remember hearing over and over again how "wrong" dancing was, yet looking like a Haitian voodoo dancer at the alter was somehow ok because it was "before the Lord". I'm sorry, but it still looked like a Haitian voodoo dancer.

THIS is dancing!
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...RisingStar.jpg

I would think dancing in a Honky Tonk , with a gal in daisy dukes would lead to sin.

You don't think her Uncle Jesse would protect her honor?

Don't Say That
 

Scott, I had a lot of respect for you! I thought you could do anything! But the funky chicken...take it back, just take it back!

P.S. Your still awesome in our church!!!

I'd like to see that. Post a video. :saycheese

:toofunny :toofunny