As summer approaches, many of us are looking for ways to get back in shape. Perhaps you’re looking for fun ways to build muscle and burn some extra calories. Adult ballet classes can be a wonderful way to do both.
At the International Ballet Academy, we celebrate all body types, fitness levels, and dance skills. We are not a program designed to achieve an arbitrary number on a scale as a sign of success. However, we know that ballet is a fun and efficient way to improve our health.
Our professional ballet instructors will help you improve your health while having fun.
Five Fitness Benefits of Adult Ballet
We believe in health and wellness. While it is possible you might lose weight with ballet, we focus on building strength, balance, and more. For many, that may translate to weight loss. However, with a focus on health you can be sure that any weight loss is done in a healthy and sustainable way.
Here are five benefits of adult ballet classes:
#1: Adult Ballet Improves Overall Strength
When you work with a professional ballet instructor, you will learn to use the proper muscles and posture for each move. Our in-home virtual classes allow you to essentially have your own personal trainer. Taking an organized class, such as ballet, could reduce your risk of accidental injury.
Ballet is a full body workout. The posturing requires you to engage your core. The coordinated moves use your feet and ankles, thigh muscles, glutes, and even your arms. Without weights, you will still see natural muscle sculpting as you progress in your ballet skills.
#2: Increases Flexibility
As we get older, we tend to lose our flexibility. Some of this is natural aging, but some of it is also from being less active. Flexibility can help:
- Improve posture
- Reduce joint discomfort
- Help with muscle tension
- Improve balance
- And improve overall practical skills such as bending, reaching, etc.
With adult ballet classes, you will naturally increase your flexibility. Just like increasing strength, you will see more improvement as you build your skills.
Taking a class through the International Ballet Academy ensures you’re working with a skilled professional. A ballet instructor starts with basic skills and helps you work your way up to more advanced skills. This helps you to gradually increase your flexibility while reducing your risk of accidental self-injury.
#3: Adult Ballet Improves Your Balance
As kids, many of us ran on playgrounds, swung on monkey bars, and quickly went over balance beams. Once we graduated middle school, many of us moved to less physical activity. Not only can this impact our strength, but it can also impact our balance and vestibular systems.
Adult ballet classes can help us regain our youthful balancing skills. Improved balance can help reduce accidental falls as we age. It can also improve our vestibular systems. If you’re someone who suffers from motion sickness, prone to tripping, or find you have unusual head and neck posture, improving your balance could help.
#4: Adult Ballet Is Good For The Mind
At the International Ballet Academy, we see wellness as holistic. Yes, ballet is great for your physical health, but it is also wonderful for your mind and mental wellness. Our physical health means little if we aren’t mentally well too.
Dance and music allow us to relax and take our minds off of daily stressors. The physical movement and music also reduce our stress hormones and increases our feel-good hormones such as serotonin.
Ballet’s coordinated movements also help in improving cognitive skills, motor coordination, motor planning, and memory. These are all areas which can decline with sedentary lifestyles. Ballet is a fun way to improve all of these areas, in addition to your physical health.
#5: Adult Ballet Might Help With Weight Loss
As mentioned, we believe it’s important to focus on your overall health and wellness. Our adult ballet classes are not designed for weight loss. Adult ballet classes help you build strength, flexibility, and more. However, while moving and having fun, some weight loss is almost inevitable.
The more active we are, regardless of what the scale says, the healthier we become! You do not need to hit it hard at the gym and push beyond your comfort level to get healthier. Our adult ballet classes are fun, engaging, and an excellent full body workout.
Best of all, these classes are done in the comfort of your own home. They are a combination of synchronous and asynchronous lessons. Our professional instructors will help you have fun, develop new skills, and improve your overall wellness.
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