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Dancing With the Stars Tango & Jive Workout
By Cindy | March 30, 2008
Isn’t Jason Taylor and Edyta Slywinska quite the pair? They’re going to be a major contender against Kristi Yamaguchi and Mark Ballus. Tango and Jive are the dances this week. The basic steps are great ways to workout while watching the show. Stand tall and keep your abdominals in as you master these dances.
Practice Sessions of Dancers: Perform the basic steps outlined below and demonstrated by the videos of the Jive or Tango based on the performer.
Enjoy the Performances: Drink water, ooh & ah, and make your comments about the dancers.
Judges Panel: Perform Couch Crunches. Bring both knees in toward the chest and straighten. Keep your abdominals tight. For variety and to target the obliques, place more weight on a hip bone and bring your knees up at an angle. Shift weight and focus on the opposite side.
Samantha Harris Interview Session: Practice the balancing exercise in the Tangocity YouTube Video or triple step as outlined in the Jive Introduction YouTube video.
TangoCity: Learn How to dance Tango Lesson 1/20. An excellent source that breaks the basic tango step down for anyone to follow.
Woman’s Basic step in words as shared in TangoCity Lesson:
- Left foot forward
- Right foot to side
- Left foot back
- Right foot back
- Cross with left foot
- Right foot back
- Left foot open with pivot
- Together with right foot
Jive Lessons
Jive Lesson: Use the initial eight count step for your aerobic session in front of the television. The woman’s part starts at 3:24 mark.
Woman’s Basic Step (keep swinging the hips) in words as illustrated in Jive Lesson:
- Step Left; swing hip right
- Swing hip left; right foot behind left
- Right foot front tap
- Right heel to side
- Right foot step front left
- Left foot step front right
- left heel to side
- left foot step front right
Jive Introduction Part 2: Simple breakdown of the triple step in place.
Dancing with the Stars Home Page has also added a couple of really neat features. Carrie Ann Inaba introduces simple dance lessons from the previous week. If you’re really brave, they’ve added a download feature where you can upload videos of you dancing!
Photo source: DWTS photo gallery at abc.com.
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Holy cow!! When I watch TV, I always seem to miss all this crazy dance stuff.
Anyway, you are so lucky to get tagged! You get to write your own six word memoir.
http://fitnessformommies.net/2008/03/31/six-word-memoir/
counting down the days until 4.14
shall we do a joint WORKOUT TO WORKOUT post?
M.
What do you have in mind MizFit? I’m up for a challenge.
Dancing is such hard work and you have to be in such good shape that I really feel athletes have a great advantage. It’s still fun to watch the competition though.