Many people don’t quite fully understand how movement is magic for your body. Exercise is medicine, even small amounts can extend longevity and prevent and treat disease. Movement is a polypill that can treat and prevent illness. Ancient thinkers, such as Hippocrates and Plato, advocated physical activity for health. The evidence for this comes from recent (and not so recent) studies that show exercise reduces the risk of all-cause mortality (all causes of death) and cardiovascular-related events, as well as warding off chronic lifestyle conditions such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, dementia and cancer.
Almost every system of the body depends upon us moving: mental health and cognitive function, muscles and joints, hearts and lungs, hormones and moods, digestive health and gut microbiome, metabolism and blood pressure – you name it, to stay healthy, we need to move frequently and purposefully. Dance is medicine to the body.
Nia Dance and Its Cardio Importance
It sounds like an appealing way to work out, but will Nia get you in shape? Its creators certainly believe so – claiming that Nia can improve your cardiovascular fitness, strength, flexibility, and balance. While it is probably the case if you are new to exercise, Nia’s real benefits lie in its multi-directional movements, diversity, and subtle way of engaging your mind and body without you even noticing – rather than calorie expenditure. Cardiovascular activities are extremely beneficial for your health.
As well as helping to lower blood pressure, cardiovascular exercise can also lower cholesterol levels in the blood by raising the levels of “good” high-density lipoproteins (HDL) and lowering the levels of “bad” low-density lipoproteins (LDL). Cardiovascular exercise – specifically low-impact activities, such as Nia Dance – can help you regain muscle strength and endurance. Exercise can also help you lose weight, which may further relieve chronic back pain.
Nia Dance is The Best Thing You Can Do For YOUR Body
While running, swimming and other propulsion-based physical activities rely on rhythm and momentum to keep your body moving, dancing involves a lot of acceleration and deceleration, which the body is less able to do efficiently through energy expenditure. Nia Dance has many benefits other than just burning calories. Nia Dance’s up-and-down and side-to-side movements may stimulate and train many of your body’s small support muscles and tendons, just as trail jogging and trekking better use your lower-body joints and muscles than straight-ahead, level-ground locomotion.
Term Passes
Term passes are a great way to get more bang for your buck if you are regularly attending Nia Dance classes. Whether you’re attending our Classic Nia classes or Gentle Nia classes, we have a pass that is convenient to you! Included in the price is our 24-hour class replay, sent to you after the class has finished. 24-hour class replays are sent to you via a link in an email. They are not downloadable and expire after 24 hours.
Outdoor Dance
Come along to the Big Dance at Steele Park in Hamilton! It is a fun, outdoor’s Nia Dance class which is suitable for everybody! I hope to see you there.
