Things You Can Do To Manage Your Stress
With everything going on in today's world, it is easy to get stressed out. Things are constantly changing, and though you might not have control of that, you can control the way you feel. At Valeo Dance Studio, we value the importance of self-care. Here are four things you can try to help manage your stress and feel your best!
Outdoors
The outdoors is an excellent place to start when it comes to managing stress. According to The American Institute of Stress, spending time outdoors can help improve mental health. Their research shows that nature excursions can help alleviate feelings of time pressure and mental stress. Since COVID-19 began, many of us have been asked to self-quarantine and stay in our homes. As a result, mental health has gone down. A great way to combat that is to get yourself outside and move! The outdoors can improve your mood, recharge you, help you see the bigger picture, and feel productive!
Exercise
Exercise is another excellent way to manage your stress. A great option for exercising and managing stress is dancing. Dancing requires your full attention, so you don't have time to worry about anything else. It is an excellent way to release some endorphins while staying fit at the same time. Endorphins are the happy chemicals in your brain that help to relieve stress and pain. Also, exercise and endorphins help lower the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress! So don't waste any time, get up and get moving!
Human Interaction
Other great ways to manage stress include human interaction and a positive mindset. After months of being self-quarantined, it’s great to be around others again. All of these things help boost our immune systems and keep up healthy for whatever we face next. An excellent way to reap these stress-busting benefits is to combine them all! At Valeo Dance Studio, we offer outdoor group dance fitness that keep you feeling good, strong, and healthy.
We know the tough effects of stress, which is why we reopened with new outdoor workouts. By coming to one of our classes, you will experience the outdoors, friends, exercise, and endorphins. In addition, you will experience all of these things in a healthy and safe environment that follows the CDC guidelines. For more information on our classes, visit us online here! If you can't make it to one of our classes, that's okay! We also post online tutorials for those at home to follow along. For the online tutorials, please click here! Don't wait any longer and get your body moving at Valeo Dance Studio!
Boring Workout? Try Dance Cardio!
We all have fitness goals, right? Some people want to shed a little bit of weight. Some people want to look more toned. Some people just want to lead a healthier lifestyle. Regardless of what you are trying to accomplish when you set out to exert your body, there is one type of workout that you will likely have to face at some point: cardio.
Here's the problem. Many of the traditional cardiovascular exercises can tend to get a bit repetitive and mundane, thus making them chore-like. How often can you go running or spinning before you are just sick of it? A week? A month? After a while, even the most dedicated of fitness-gurus need to add a little bit of flavor to their workout routine.
At the Valeo Dance Fitness Studio, they have just the right exercise to get you excited to work out again!
The Power of Dance Cardio
That's right. Dancing also counts as a cardio workout when it is done right. Cardiovascular exercises consist of activities that raise a person's heart rate for an extended period of time. After one dance fitness class, you will understand just how strenuous a simple activity like dancing can be.
Dance cardio eliminates the inevitable dullness that comes with some other cardio workouts. As the music changes, you change. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's slow. No two classes are ever the same in dance cardio, while the collective movement of your group can also drive home an intoxicating feeling of community.
What's more, dancing tends to target more muscle groups than running, cycling, etc. It is a full-body cardiovascular routine that can trim fat, tone muscle, and leave you hungry for more as soon as it is over.
Time to Hit the Dance Floor!
All of us must face a cardio workout eventually. That doesn't mean it can't be fun, though! Dance cardio integrates infectious music and a variety of movements that can help you reach all of your fitness goals. But most importantly, you don't have to be bored during the journey to your ideal body, as boredom simply does not exist on the dance floor.
Dance and music are truly an international language as well. When you try dance cardio, you are opening yourself up to a wonderful way of expression. Due to COVID-19, our lives have changed drastically. Since then, we have received videos of people dancing all over the world with us - Argentina, Italy, the UK, Germany, Israel, France, Iran, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, and more. Join us in a fun new workout and find our videos on YouTube here. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for joining us!
Check out this video of our friends from all over the world dancing with us!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXRLt9iq4Vo
A Lifelong Affair with Dance, Health and Fitness: Valeo Dance Fitness Studio
Asiya Khasnutdinova's love affair with dance and fitness began back in Russia as a little girl. When Asiya's parents saw how highly energetic their child was, they figured it would be a good idea to find an activity she could channel her energy through. The rest is history!
Asiya Khasnutdinova's love affair with dance and fitness began back in Russia as a little girl. When Asiya's parents saw how highly energetic their child was, they figured it would be a good idea to find an activity she could channel her energy through. In near-Arctic Russia, that was figure skating. Very soon, Asiya was showcasing her talents to audiences looking to see some of the best figure skaters in the world. Out of concern for their daughter and to redirect her to a less injury-prone activity, Asiya's mother suggested dance. As they say, the rest is history.
It's A History Worth Telling
Remember, Asiya is a highly-energetic person. She finally met her match on the dance floor through Latin dance. She then competed professionally across Russia, Europe, and the US for 15 years. In what looked like a rather interesting turn of events, Asiya came to the United States to study finance and earn her MBA. As a result, it led her to work in some of the top financial institutions in the United States. She figured like many may think, "dance is not a real job, and I should probably get one," and her passion sat on the back seat for seven years.
But the dance floor kept calling, and one day, it could not be ignored any longer.
What's Next?
Thanks to her strong business background, and her experience in the financial industry, Asiya knew what she was doing. Asiya has a strong command of the way businesses work and the hurdles an up-and-coming small business could face. Like usual, her mom was by her side, and despite her doubts, Asiya started Valeo Dance Fitness Studio. It began with a group class featuring a neighbor and her biggest cheerleader. That small start evolved into a YouTube channel with over 200,000 subscribers. Then came dance fitness classes featured in national publications: SELF magazine named Valeo Dance Fitness Studio, one of the Top 10 BEST cardio workouts in the US.
VALEO's signature cardio workout combines a variety of tools to create the best workout. Those include "weighted hula hoops, resistance bands, free weights, fitness drumming, and balance balls that will ultimately tone the entire body." Asiya developed the VALEO method along with Svetlana Khasnutdinova, MD, Ph.D. Svetlana brings 30-years of medical expertise and understanding of body types, muscular structure, and physiology to the table. In other words, they created a fitness experience that embodies the meaning of VALEO perfectly. VALEO, a word of Latin origin, means "to be healthy, strong, and feel good."
You can read more about Asiya's story here.
VALEO's focus is to help you feel good through dancing and movement every day of the year. Contact us to learn more about our signature packages. Your first class is on us!
Susan Ellison's Story About Valeo Fitness YouTube Channel
Valeo Dance Fitness Studio has a very active YouTube channel with over 230,000 subscribers. Subscribers like Susan Ellison are living proof of how the benefits of using our YouTube channel can make a big difference!
Dance is one of the best ways to get fit and stay fit. The Valeo Dance Fitness Studio has been selected by SELF magazine as a TOP 10 BEST cardio dance workouts in the USA. We have incorporated medical research into our classes, and as a result, we have helped countless women achieve the fitness and lifestyle they desire. Our studio is located in Atlanta, but that hasn't stopped us from helping women all over the world. Valeo Dance Fitness Studio has a very active YouTube channel with over 230,000 subscribers. No matter where you are, you can get the benefit of the classes at the studio and begin to change your life!
Susan Ellison
Subscribers like Susan Ellison are living proof of how the benefits of using our YouTube channel can make a big difference. In Susan's own words:
"Just a quick note to thank you for your creative, fun workout dance fitness classes on YouTube. I subscribe and have been following your classes for a year now. I love them!! You have helped me get me back!! 30 lbs down!"
Our YouTube videos use new and upbeat music and are only a few minutes. The videos are of real dance classes and show the whole class dancing so that you will fit right in. With hundreds of videos showing different songs, you can pick and choose what you enjoy the most. Our YouTube channel will even give you playlists with all the videos you need to focus on different types of workouts such as upper body, lower body, and more. We are so proud of the work Susan has done, and it's stories like hers that drive us to keep our YouTube channel fresh with videos to help you get fit and stay fit in a fun and healthy way. Contact us for more information about our studio, our live classes, or our highly popular YouTube channel.
Representing Valeo Dance Fitness at Rimini Wellness Italy!
WOW WOW WOW! We are so incredibly honored and excited to have been invited to Rimini Wellness in Italy this year, the world's biggest congress devoted to dance, fitness, well-being, sport, business, physical culture and healthy eating! What an amazing experience to represent Valeo Dance Fitness at an event that brings all the biggest companies in the wellness universe together under the same roof! Interviews, sharing knowledge, learning innovative techniques, new ideas, meeting best professionals in the dance fitness arena! We can't wait to share this with you, our wonderful Valeo Dance Fitness family!
