How to Warm Up for Ballet Dancing

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So when you get started with ballet you want to make sure that you got a good location to dance on. You want to have hard floors wood is preferable that your feet can slide on easily, you want to have attire of tights, ballet shoes ballet slippers you can have canvass or leather. Typically a leotard boys will wear white shirts and black leggings, black ballet shoes, you want to make sure you have water with you at all times and that your in a good air condition area, but if it's cool you want to make sure that you got warm ups on to make sure that your body is working safely that your muscles are not to cold before you do any of your large movements. As a safety precaution as before you start dance class you want to make sure that your warmed up that your body muscles are stretched, just a little bit before you get started working. Every advanced dancer has there own kind of warm up that they do, some of my favorite things that I like to do are the calf stretch that you would do at the bar crossing the one leg over the other and bending the back, this presses into your front calf and it also stretches your achilles tendons on both sides. Stretching out and stretching your arms over your head there's a little bit of yoga that's great for stretching your relaxation, stretching down over the hamstrings, and down to a downward dock position, this also stretches the hamstrings and strengthens the arms. You can hold this position for a while just to make sure that your body is nice and warm some other ideas will be to stretch out the arms, cause we use our arms a lot in ballet, both sides holding this position for about 30 seconds whatever you feel that needs to move around it's a good idea before you get started dancing.

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