"I tell all of my students this, 'There is nothing that you do in your life that Dancing won’t make you better at.' The poise and confidence that one gets from mastering the Dance and the Dance floor, spills naturally over into all other aspects of your life. Whether you be a businessman or a farmer, accountant, housewife, athlete, truck driver, or whatever you do, poise and confidence will always serve you well.
It goes without saying that Dancing is great exercise. It’s almost a cliche expression. What calls for examination here is, why is it great exercise? Looking beyond the continuous movement of Dancing we come to the manner in which we use our muscles to effect that movement.
Dance posture and Dance position call for a continuous use of your core muscles and the tightening and releasing of them according to the demands of the Dance. A sort of dynamic tensioning. Then we have acceleration, deceleration, and rapid change of directions. Not unlike that of a tennis player.
Let's not forget the upper body, called our top line, with dips, oversways, and the continuous transmission and absorption of energy between partners. Now put these all together in every Dance you do and you can clearly see that, yes, Dancing is great exercise!"