{"id":4348,"date":"2017-11-13T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=4348"},"modified":"2017-11-13T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T10:00:29","slug":"find-your-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/lifestyle-self-improvement\/find-your-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Your Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How many times have you canceled your plans to go to the gym, take a run or otherwise workout?<\/p>\n

Why do you think that happens? Is the exercise tedious? An obligation? Something you feel obligated to do but don\u2019t quite enjoy?<\/p>\n

With dance, it\u2019s easy to have fun and you don\u2019t realize how much exercise you\u2019re actually doing. The only way to stick with exercise is to find something you find fun. Then it won\u2019t matter how tired you are, what a long day it\u2019s been, how far you have to drive \u2013 you\u2019ll do it because you have so much fun once you get there.<\/p>\n

So how can you make exercise fun? Join a group that\u2019s doing the same exercise \u2013 like dance.<\/p>\n

A study published by the American College of Sports Medicine revealed that group exercise keep people exercising longer because of the fun camaraderie they find. \u201cA common reason given for quitting an exercise program is boredom,\u201d the study revealed. When others are there \u2013 your dance instructor, your friends in a group class, your dance partner \u2013 you hold each other accountable while also motivating one another to keep going and keep showing up.<\/p>\n

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When people come in to our studio, they don\u2019t always realize at first how much fun they\u2019ll have dancing. But once they realize it, and also realize that dancing is far more exercise than they expected, they are more likely to stick with it than to a treadmill, a track or another form of solitary exercise.<\/p>\n

Additionally, setting goals for your dancing can keep you dancing longer \u2013 and exercising longer, too. The same study revealed that exercise \u201cwith a purpose\u201d \u2013 like the goals our instructors set with our students \u2013 can keep you exercising longer and more attentive to the effort.<\/p>\n

We set goals with our students because without a goal, you\u2019ll eventually get bored with the effort. If you know you\u2019re working toward something, you will push yourself harder and stick with it. And be happier in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  How many times have you canceled your plans to go to the gym, take a run or otherwise workout? Why do you think that happens? Is the exercise tedious? An obligation? Something you feel obligated to do but don\u2019t quite enjoy? With dance, it\u2019s easy to have fun and you don\u2019t realize how much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle-self-improvement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}