Dancing! The Best Exercise You Can Do For The Brain As Well As The Body.

I kick started my week teaching this amazing group at Dance Fit. It you saw “The Truth About Getting Fit” that was on TV at the end of January it confirmed that dancing was the best exercise you can do for the brain as well as the body. There is plenty of evidence that exercise is good for the brain, but dance seems to be “unusually beneficial”. Why? It’s physically active. It improves your cognitive development. And improves your coordination,motor skills. As well as being physically active, dance classes require participants to multitask, learn a series of steps, remember the sequence and keep in time with the music. The programme showed to test the impact this has on the brain, a group of salsa dancers agreed to complete a series of mental tests to analyse their base level of intelligence and reflexes. One of the tests monitored decision making and ability to avoid distraction, another looked at working memory and the ability to recognise patterns. The final test analyses our ability to anticipate and judge how fast objects are moving through space. After 30 minutes of fast paced salsa, the participants repeated the tests and improved in each and every area. Most notably, their scores for working memory improved by 18%. The scientists noted that they hadn’t seen a result like this for any other type of exercise, including running. So keeeeeeeep dancing!

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