Dance to Fitness; My Secret Aerobic Fitness Exercise

It is embarrassing to admit it, but I am a forty year old who likes to dance alone in the spare room that I use as my office. This may sound a bit odd, and I certainly feel a bit uncomfortable with the idea that people might be imagining me dancing all by myself and thinking how sad. The fact is though, that I have found that is enjoyable to dance to fitness. I have other aerobic activities that I do more often, but this dancing is way up there with the most enjoyable fitness workout.

In the past the idea of trying to dance to fitness would have made sense to me, but there is no way that I would have considered as suitable for myself. If you told me about someone my age who was dancing alone in his room then I would have thought him to be eccentric to say the least. I did like dancing when I was younger, but not girly dancing. I enjoyed moshing to indie or grunge music; I didn't even like to think of it as dancing. I must admit though that this thrashing around to loud music certainly felt like great exercise; despite many bad habits this is probably what kept me fit through my late teens and twenties.

I have been finding myself feeling a bit stale in regards to my regular exercise. Up until the beginning of this year I had really let myself go. It took me a few months to get back into shape, but now my weight is where I like it to be and I feel physically in bad shape. I am determined to never allow myself fall back to my less-active days; there are just too many benefits to be had by being healthy. I started to dance to fitness a few weeks back. I was just messing around with my two year old; the two of us just dancing to some songs. I realized after a while that I was working up quite a sweat and felt out of breath. I tried it the next day alone in my room in the form of a fitness workout, the music loud, and the room door jammed shut. I felt self-conscious at first, but soon got into it. Now, I don't feel uncomfortable at all, but I still lock the door.

It seems likely that I will continue to dance to fitness. It is just too good an aerobic activity to ignore. I have now made dancing with my son in the evenings a regular event, I don't seem to mind been seen dancing so much if my son is with me; I can say that I'm just playing with him. My two-year old loves it, but I have learnt that he is still a bit young for moshing. I would recommend this as an enjoyable fitness workout that seems to get every part of the body moving.