{"id":3294,"date":"2016-03-17T18:19:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T18:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2025-03-20T16:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:18:17","slug":"gentlemen-should-get-groovy-on-the-dance-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/blog\/nutrition-health\/gentlemen-should-get-groovy-on-the-dance-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentlemen Should Get Groovy on the Dance Floor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gentlemen, start your engines. Get out on that dance floor and move! The benefits are innumerable and the downside is non-existent.<\/p>\n<p>For one, dancing is a great way to meet others, especially at our local dance studio. It\u2019s a low-pressure atmosphere and you\u2019ll be among folks with a common goal \u2013 learning to dance. <strong>An enhanced social life is a mood-elevator, causing the brain to generate endorphins. Endorphins create that happy feeling and help battle depression and fight stress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dancing and dance lessons are great not only for the body, but for the mind. <strong>The body benefits from the physical work, and in the more energetic dances can burn up to 10 calories a minute. Put in half an hour on the dance floor doing the mambo and it\u2019s a workout! Get your cardio conditioning on the dance floor, while also improving your balance and flexibility through dance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Learning dance steps also engages the brain by giving it new patterns to master, which helps keep you sharp and on top of your game.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Men sometimes say they feel funny dancing, but that\u2019s an attitude quickly squashed<\/strong> <strong>with ballroom dance instruction at our Fred Astaire Dance Studio. No one judges you<\/strong>, and you will learn to stop judging yourself as you pick up the steps and garner encouragement from your dance instructors, dance partners and new friends.<\/p>\n<p>So get fired up! Jump into spring with a new you built upon a foundation of dance. All upside, no downside. And all at your Fred Astaire Dance Studio, where we offer the finest in group and private ballroom dance instruction in every kind of dance \u2013 foxtrot, salsa, swing. Don\u2019t wait. Call us now or drop in any time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gentlemen, start your engines. Get out on that dance floor and move! The benefits are innumerable and the downside is non-existent. For one, dancing is a great way to meet others, especially at our local dance studio. It\u2019s a low-pressure atmosphere and you\u2019ll be among folks with a common goal \u2013 learning to dance. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/coral-gables\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}