Salsacise Aerobics Dance for fitness

Salsacise is a fusion between an aerobics exercise or workout and Latin Dancing. You can include it in your cardio exercise routine to spice up your workouts. It is guaranteed to make you sweat plus you will have fun doing the exercises. You do not have to attend an exercise class or a special dance class in order to do salsacise. You can do it in the comfort of your own home. Just make sure you close the curtains, turn up the music and let yourself go!!! It works out your whole body especially the waist, hips and bum areas as you will be doing a lot of twisting and twirling about.

If you can't attend a class or there isn't one near you, you can start by using a salsa or dance dvd. Once you have got the basic moves, all you need is the right music and you can salsacise on your own.

That was what I did. I don't enjoy running on a treadmill or riding a stationary bike. I don't mind doing aerobics but doing it on my own was no fun. Then when I discovered that dancing can be a good form of cardio exercise, I started to incoporate more and more dance routines into my workouts. This is what I did.

1. I searched on YouTube videos to watch some salsa dance exercise classes. This was to give me and idea of whether I would like to do this form of exercise. I am afraid that on YouTube that is all you can do. You can't get a whole exercise routine for dance. Perhaps you can get some warm up and stretching videos for free but most of the salsa dancing videos are promotional videos, so you just get 3 or 5 minute clips which are not very meaningful when it comes to exercising.

2. Next, I went out and got myself some dvds on salsacise. I have got quite a collection since I like variety in my routine. I don't like to do the same exercises over and over again.

3. Now that I know some moves, all I need is the right music. If you are hardworking, you can search for some salsa or latin music on YouTube and put them altogether in a playlist but that is too much work or you could try to listen to some internet radio with Latin music. However, you don't get to choose and you may end up having some slow and fast music in the mix. If you internet connection is bad, then you get a start stop start stop which spoils your routine. The best thing is to get a good audio cd for latin music.

That is it. As for books, forget about books! You don't read up on how to dance, you just dance!

I did say not to read but if you are one of those types that just must read, then you can check up this Wikipedia page which describes salsa dancing origins, movements, rhythm and style. You might also want to read up about zumba and know the difference between salsacise and zumba.

You will find that the definition of zumba in Wikipedia is more broad incorporating belly dance, hip hop and even some martial art elements in addition to salsa dancing whereas salsacise is more focussed on latin dance.