{"id":9678,"date":"2009-07-02T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2010-11-08T16:45:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:45:13","slug":"dancing-through-your-chores-is-a-great-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/dancing-through-your-chores-is-a-great-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Through Your Chores is a Great Workout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9817\" title=\"woman dancing on desk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/woman-dancing-on-desk.jpg\" alt=\"woman dancing on desk\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/>I cannot promise that all <a title=\"brooke randolph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.Brooke-Randolph.com\" target=\"_blank\">mental health professionals<\/a> take their own advice, but I try not to speak outside of my own experience. I suppose I could say the same thing for dance instruction. Recently, when working with a fairly new salsa student, I encouraged him to try to get the pattern of the basic step cemented by just walking around his house left-right-left-pause, right-left-right-pause, stepping toe to heel rather than heel to toe. While I worked with him for almost an hour just reviewing all the details of the basic step, I was reminded yet again what a great workout just this basic <a title=\"dance your ass off\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/dance-your-ass-off\/\" target=\"_self\">dance<\/a> step can be. If you really concentrate on proper technique and body isolations, you are using a lot of different muscles, and I find just one song can have me out of breath.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I am constantly trying to find ways to integrate more activity into my busy schedule. Today, I decided to take my own advice and popped my <a title=\"ipod workouts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/ipod-dont-leave-home-without-it\/\" target=\"_self\">iPod<\/a> into the dock while I set out to clean house. Normally cleaning takes me a lot of time because I get bored and distract myself. Dancing let me have fun and also showed me where I still need some work. Ideally, as a dancer, I should be able to keep my feet moving despite what my arms are doing, but I caught myself standing more than once while scrubbing my cast iron skillet. Of course the best part of it was how much I accomplished. It is June and in the 90s in Indiana, but there were still sweaters on my bedroom floor &#8211; not any more!<\/p>\n<p>Turning on the Timba for a few minutes every day can bring me more <a title=\"Benefits of Joyful Play\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/the-benefits-of-joyful-play\/\" target=\"_self\">joy<\/a>, more cleanliness, more activity, and increase my dance skills. Even if salsa isn&#8217;t your dance of choice, find the music that moves you, combine tasks, and maybe even practice your moonwalk.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/best-calorie-burning-chores\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/media\/slideshow_images\/best-calorie-burning-chores\/Best-Calorie-Burning-Chores.jpg\" alt=\"View Best Calorie Burning Chores Slideshow\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot promise that all mental health professionals take their own advice, but I try not to speak outside of my own experience. I suppose I could say the same thing for dance instruction. Recently, when working with a fairly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/dancing-through-your-chores-is-a-great-workout\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5905,773],"class_list":["post-9678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-chores","tag-dance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9818,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions\/9818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}