Cross Training in Your Ballet Dancing

1. cross training in your ballet Most ballet dancers feel that all they want to do is dance, but a well rounded dancer can definitely benefit from a wide variety of different exercise and strengthening methods out there. Your ballet dancing can only be improved by using them. Some of them include pilates, resistance training, yoga, gyro tonic and floor barre. These all work on improving your overall strength and stamina, and help you to overcome specific weaknesses. These exercises can only complement a dancers regime. Dance Barre You will become a stronger ballet dancer by doing more than just dancing. Today I will focus briefly on Pilates and Yoga. I will provide a more detailed explanation of each on my blog. Pilates has had a recent surge in popularity, among ballet dancers and non ballet dancers. This makes it looks like a fitness fad, but in actual fact it has been around for over eighty years. George Balanchine and Martha Graham were among the first in the ballet world to recognise Pilates as being especially beneficial for dancers. Pilates was developed by Joseph Pilates, who turned his knowledge of boxing, yoga, gymnastics and martial art, as well as his experience rehabilitating patients from World War I, into a system of exercises meant to increase a persons overall strength and flexibility, without creating bulky muscles. Pilates focuses on creating a super strong core that will support all the other movements in ballet dancing. Pilates can also target those weak lower back muscles and enable the dancer to perform the ballet exercises correctly. Ballet Barre