The Benefits
Line Dancing has proven to be a perfect exercise for those that need to work on their coordination and balance.
The quick movements are good for increasing brain memory and heart health.
With any weight-bearing exercise your bones get a good work out and help increase your bone density..
A line dance is a choreographed dance in which a group of people dance along to a repeating sequence of steps while arranged in one or more lines or rows.
These lines usually face all in the same direction, or less commonly face each other..
Some of the most popular country line dances today are: “Tush Push,” “Cotton Eyed Joe,” “Boot Scootin' Boogie,” “Hoedown Throwdown,” “Cowboy Cha Cha,” “Slap Leather,” “Swamp Thing,” and “Watermelon Crawl.” Some common non-country line dances are: “Electric Slide,” “Cha Cha Slide,” “Macarena,” “Cupid Shuffle,” and “ .
In addition to getting the older adults engaged in a healthy physical activity, line dancing is a perfect exercise for improving coordination and balance, increasing cardiovascular health and brain memory, and is seen as an effective treatment for Alzheimer's, dementia and depression..
While you may learn a dance to a song in one place, it may be a different dance to that song in another.
Rarely will they go by the same name.
The ones that do go by the same name all around (like Boot Scoot Boogie for example) may be a little bit different, but will still hold most of the same steps..
The Cupid Shuffle is one of the easiest line dances for beginners learning how to line dance for the first time..
1966 single by the Kinks
