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Q2-M7-Tips in Making Dance Fitness Routine

Dance fitness choreography is different from ordinary dance choreography as its purpose is exercise rather than entertainment or competition. A dance fitness instructor should create routines that allow participants to enjoy themselves while becoming fit. Some tips for doing this include: 1. Using repetition of dance steps to target muscles and help participants memorize movements. 2. Applying a "block method" where routines are composed of 4 sections of 16 dance counts each, repeating for 64 total counts. 3. Skipping techniques focusing too much on proper form, instead prioritizing enjoyment of moving to music. 4. Keeping routines simple with sustained grooves rather than many complicated movements, as simplicity leads to more enjoyment.

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Q2-M7-Tips in Making Dance Fitness Routine

Dance fitness choreography is different from ordinary dance choreography as its purpose is exercise rather than entertainment or competition. A dance fitness instructor should create routines that allow participants to enjoy themselves while becoming fit. Some tips for doing this include: 1. Using repetition of dance steps to target muscles and help participants memorize movements. 2. Applying a "block method" where routines are composed of 4 sections of 16 dance counts each, repeating for 64 total counts. 3. Skipping techniques focusing too much on proper form, instead prioritizing enjoyment of moving to music. 4. Keeping routines simple with sustained grooves rather than many complicated movements, as simplicity leads to more enjoyment.

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Q2-M7- Tips in Making Dance Fitness Routine

Dance Fitness Choreography is ability to put dance movements into fitness.


For exercise purposes, dance choreography becomes different. Not like an ordinary
dance choreography that we perform for the purpose of entertainment or for dance
competition.
What do you think is the difference bet. Exercise and dance choreography ? Physical
exercises are meant to tone up only specific muscles at a time, whereas dance works on the entire body
and on a wider group of muscles. Dance makes your body flexible and makes you agile. In this way,
Dance eases locomotion so that you can walk better, run faster and do any kind of work without putting
too much strain on your muscles.

A fitness dance instructor should remember that participants join a dance fitness class
to enjoy and at the same time to become fit. If fitness dance choreography is the same
as we have a for competition, it will be impossible for the participants to enjoy the
routine. Instead, they will be focusing more on techniques and other strict regimen of
dance and eventually will not enjoy their participation.
ENJOYMENT this is the key word to remember in making your fitness dance routine.
Movements need to be engaging to keep the participants keep on grooving throughout
the fitness class.
Therefore, how do we keep the participants enjoy the routine? Here are some tips in
doing so.

1. REPETITION – we heard mostly in a strength fitness class that repetition is the


key to develop strength. Example of this is in strength training program. To develop the
legs muscles, we need to perform squats or lunges in several times. Maybe 8 or 12
times to develop the strength of our legs muscles so as the other body parts.
REPETITION is also applicable in creating dance routine. Movements should be
repetitive. Doing so, we target the specific muscles to grow and develop and even loss
its fats. Repeat the dance steps as long as it tuned to the grove. At the same time,
repeating the movements helps participants memorized it easily and can express their
feelings and enjoy more.

2. APPLY BLOCK METHOD- it is a method where you composed your dance


routine in 64 counts. Remember that in dance, one dance step is for 8 counts. If we
perform on both side it makes 16 counts. Making 4 dance steps of 16 counts each
makes 64 counts. Repeat your 64 counts dance steps routine and you apply the block
method. This is more effective in dance fitness choreography for it help the body
adopts easily to movements.
3. SKIP THE TECHNIQUE- Technique is important to ensure safety in performance
but this is also not good for others who are not advanced in movements to enjoy the
dance. Dance fitness is utilizing dance to keep you moving to be active and fit.
Focusing too much on technique, participant losses their enthusiasm to move and
enjoy. Dance techniques will take it place on the process of moving the body so try not
to worry much but instead focus on enjoying the groove.

4. KEEP IT SIMPLE – If there are lots of complicated movements, participants will


not enjoy the dance routine. Rather, focus on sustaining the dance grooves. Too much
movements complicates the routine and this makes the participants bored. Keep in
mind that the simpler the movements the better. The more grooves the more the
enjoyment.

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