Dancing for Exercise

Having spent all my life keeping fit through sailing and for sailing campaigns, I have difficulty feeling motivated to going to the gym if my life is focussed on other goals. I find I associate gyms in particular with the grind of using weights to gain strength.

I have a friend who keeps very fit without the goal-set mentality – she does it by doing things she enjoys. One of her activities is dancing – Mo-Jive. It turns out there are many organisations, an example of which is www.danceyourselfdizzy.com Of course it does depend on having a regular enough life to be able to commit fairly regular evenings while learning, but since women aim to follow the man’s lead in this sort of dancing, it’s the men whole bear the bigger brunt of the education.

Great fun. And getting fit too.