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My husband's parents run a dance studio and for the first year or so that my husband and I dated, we took dance lessons in jitterbug, lindyhop, waltz, cha-cha, and foxtrot (my first time, he had a different partner back in the days before he met me). When he started gaining weight (and I followed soon after), we quit dancing because it bothered his knees.
Imagine my surprise when he suggested last night that we go to a dance his parents were putting on! I quickly agreed... it was great. We remembered a lot of our old moves (though I'll admit we forgot a bunch) and danced every song that we knew the dance for (we don't know tango or rhumba), which was almost every song! We never did that in the past! My husband's knees always hurt when we tried to do that and we both got too winded. Last night, we only really got painfully winded once, during "Brown Derby Jump" because the darn song is so long and up-tempo. My mother-in-law even showed us the basic meringue steps so we can bump around the dance floor a little doing that (you have to swing your hips a TON for that one! I worried I might kill someone with my huge hips lol). I felt like queen for the evening.
I had a great time and we've signed up for 2 hours of dance class on Tuesday nights!
Just thought I'd share my joy with you great people, and recommend partners' dancing as a great way to bond with a spouse/friend/loved one and get awesome exercise all at once.
My husband's parents run a dance studio and for the first year or so that my husband and I dated, we took dance lessons in jitterbug, lindyhop, waltz, cha-cha, and foxtrot (my first time, he had a different partner back in the days before he met me). When he started gaining weight (and I followed soon after), we quit dancing because it bothered his knees.
Imagine my surprise when he suggested last night that we go to a dance his parents were putting on! I quickly agreed... it was great. We remembered a lot of our old moves (though I'll admit we forgot a bunch) and danced every song that we knew the dance for (we don't know tango or rhumba), which was almost every song! We never did that in the past! My husband's knees always hurt when we tried to do that and we both got too winded. Last night, we only really got painfully winded once, during "Brown Derby Jump" because the darn song is so long and up-tempo. My mother-in-law even showed us the basic meringue steps so we can bump around the dance floor a little doing that (you have to swing your hips a TON for that one! I worried I might kill someone with my huge hips lol). I felt like queen for the evening.
I had a great time and we've signed up for 2 hours of dance class on Tuesday nights!
Just thought I'd share my joy with you great people, and recommend partners' dancing as a great way to bond with a spouse/friend/loved one and get awesome exercise all at once.
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