Choreograph Your First Dance!

Are you getting married this year, or had to move your wedding date due to COVID? If so, now is the perfect time to start choreographing your first dance. While some couples choose to just wing it on their wedding day, there are some that don't. Here are three reasons why you should choreograph your first dance!

Surprise Your Guests

Having a perfectly choreographed dance number is a great way to impress your guests. This can be especially fun if none of your guests are expecting it. Pulling off an impressive first dance when neither of you is known for your dance skills is a fun way to wow your friends and family. You can even surprise your guests with a few newly learned dance moves.

Make It Yours

Creating a professionally choreographed first dance allows you to make the dance yours. From the song to the attitude, to the steps you choose to include, your first dance can represent you as a couple. Since a professional choreographed your dance, your first dance will represent you while showcasing your new skills.

Time Together

Unfortunately, couples planning a wedding often find themselves so busy planning the wedding that you don't have time to just have fun together. Planning and practicing your choreographed first dance is the perfect excuse to spend time together. Whether it takes just one or two lessons, or you find yourself at the dance studio regularly, this is the perfect opportunity to take time away from other wedding planning. It allows the two of you to enjoy time together as a couple!

If you are interested in choreographing your first dance or if you want to more know about other wedding-related dance lessons, contact us. Along with helping you choreograph your first dance, we also provide father-daughter and mother-son dance lessons. We also offer dance lessons that are a perfect addition to any bachelorette party!

Ballroom Dancing Will Boost Your Relationship!

If you are looking for something fun to do with your partner, that is outside of the normal dinner and a movie date, then you should consider taking ballroom dance lessons together. Ballroom dance is a beautiful and elegant form of dance that is fun not only to watch but to learn. Perhaps the best part of all is that you can learn it with your partner. Ballroom dance lessons are an excellent option and here's why. 

Varying Levels 

Your ballroom dance lessons will be tailored to the skill level that both you and your partner are at. They have everything from beginner's level, where the dancers in the class have never done ballroom, to advanced levels, where the dancers are seasoned professionals. This makes it easy for you and your partner to enroll in the correct class and learn at a pace that is doable for you. Our instructors also ensure you are comfortable throughout your entire lesson. 

Connection

Dancing in and of itself is a beautiful form of art. Dancing with your partner can be beautiful for the two of you because it helps you to connect with each other physically, in a way that is very difficult to do otherwise. The two of you have to become in sync with one another in order to move as one. This can help strengthen your physical and emotional bond, which can help to strengthen your relationship. In addition, ballroom dancing is an excellent way for engaged couples to prepare for their first dance. Not only will you feel comfortable with one another, but confident in your skills in front of your audience.

Workout

Dancing is an excellent and fun form of exercise! It is often made even better by the fact that most people don't realize how hard they are working when they dance. As you and your partner dance across the floor during your ballroom dance lessons, you are constantly moving and burning calories. This is not your typical workout and would be a great way to mix things up between the two of you. Not only will you feel healthier after dancing, but accomplished too!

If you're looking to switch your date night up or practice for your big day, check us out at Valeo Dance Fitness Studio. Our instructor and owner, Asiya Khasnutdinova, has been voted Best Ballroom Dance Instructor in Atlanta! Asiya works hard to make sure her clients feel comfortable while learning something new. Each lesson is personalized to meet your needs, desires, goals, ability, and personality. To book a private ballroom dance lesson or learn more about Valeo Dance Fitness Studio, contact us here today!

Resistance Training: Why It Works

Resistance training has been around for over a century and continues to be a great way to build muscle, be healthy, and get fit. People everywhere put in the hard work needed to see results, but many do not know why it is working or how! 

A Quick Science Lesson 

When your body undergoes any form of resistance training, it sees it as a threat to its homeostasis, or balance. The human body is amazingly adept at staying as balanced as possible and will do what it must to keep up. For example, when someone lifts a weight, there are micro-tears throughout the body. The body then repairs the area, but instead of putting back what was there, it strengthens it as well. It is the same with dancing. The muscles of the legs strengthen and get rebuilt stronger, so the next session is potentially not as stressful. Dancing also will improve cardiovascular health as it strengthens the heart and lungs. Strengthening of the heart is an excellent benefit of exercise as it improves circulation and overall health. 

Another lesser-known benefit of resistance training is the release of "feel good" hormones. When someone is working out hard, the body only knows it as a threat. In turn, it releases hormones like dopamine and adrenaline to strengthen you. This is why exercise can be so addicting and make someone experiencing a bad day have a positive attitude flip. This is also the reason why runners get what is known as "the runners high." While addictive hormones may sound bad, they pose no threat, and there is no harm from their release during exercise. 

Signature Classes At Valeo

Resistance training is a signature part of our ValeoFit 1000 class. Dancing is a fantastic and fun way to get into shape and is easily learnable from one of our classes. You can learn about the studio and what we offer here, and if you have any more questions, feel free to contact us. 

Burn Calories Efficiently Through Dance

Exercise can feel like a chore, especially when you're busy. Why not make it fun? We've found there's nothing better than a hot beat and sizzling moves to burn some calories.

Better Than Running

Upbeat cardio dancing can burn as much as a run, but we suspect it does more. Music ignites something deep in our DNA, telling us all to get up, to dance, to express ourselves through movement. The adrenaline rush from a great song can keep you moving just a little bit longer than you thought you could, leading to more overall calories happily burned. 

Like Yoga, But Bouncier

Those long, lean muscles you get from yoga come from sturdy, engaged stretches. Strengthening muscles while you stretch is one of the absolute best ways to sculpt that slender physique. Add cardio to burn off those calories, and you have one potent fitness routine! Dancing incorporates the essential parts of the most common exercises to boost your burn potential. 

Major Stress Killer

Cortisol, the stress hormone, hates giving up fat. It clings to it like a child to a blanket, wrapping your body up in comfort to protect it against--well, whatever it thinks you're anxious about. Music and joyful movement, making new friends, and trying something new is just what your clingy cortisol needs to loosen up and let it go. 

Your body reacts so beautifully to dance because it's something you were born to do. All of us were. Have you ever seen a baby respond to their favorite song? We were born dancing. Dancing is innate to our human experience--and it is devastating to calories. Are you ready to get in touch with your inner dancer? Contact us today and let us help you get moving!