What are the benefits of dancing for the elderly? What kind of dance is suitable for the elderly?

　　Dancing is a wonderful enjoyment and a beneficial healthy movement. Dance is not only for young people, but also for middle school students elderly It brings health and vitality, cultivates the temperament of the elderly, and is beneficial to the physical and mental health of the elderly. Therefore, dancing has become a favorite fitness program for many elderly people. So what are the specific benefits of dancing for the elderly? What kind of dance is suitable for the elderly? Next, I will introduce them one by one for your reference.

　　What are the benefits of dancing for the elderly?

　　1. Enhance resistance

　　The elderly have poor physical fitness and lower resistance than young people, and are more likely to be infected by external bacteria and viruses. disease . Dancing is an aerobic exercise. Planned and systematic dance training can enhance physical fitness, enhance the body's physical resistance, and reduce the chance of getting sick.

　　2. Promote digestion

　　Dancing can enhance the secretion function of digestive glands, promote regular gastrointestinal motility, increase appetite, and is useful for preventing and treating high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and habitual constipate It has good effects on all diseases.

　　3. Improve coordination ability

　　Dance movements are composed of head, neck, shoulders, upper and lower limbs flexion, extension, rotation and other movements, which require high coordination of the whole body. The elderly's insistence on moderate dancing can help improve their whole-body coordination and prevent them from falling easily.

　　4. Relieve muscle tension

　　Dance exercise is the best tranquilizer in the world. This is because dancing in moderation can relax nerve Muscle tension, thereby achieving a calming effect. Dancing can enhance muscle strength, strengthen legs, feet, muscles and bones, make joints flexible, and promote blood circulation and metabolism of the human body. This kind of fitness method with movement in silence and stillness in movement can relieve neuromuscular tension.

　　5. Good for mental health

　　Elderly people can enhance friendship, promote spiritual communication and relieve loneliness through communication and discussion of dance movements. Dance can help the elderly relieve mental stress and avoid senile depression and Alzheimer's disease.

　　6. Shape your body

　　Dancing helps middle-aged and elderly people stay in shape. People who often dance will definitely not become obese. As long as the method is correct, it can help reduce the accumulation of abdominal fat in the human body and can also reshape the figure of middle-aged and elderly people.

　　7. Pleasant mood

　　When dancing, melodious dance music accompanies the elderly, and the rhythm of the music makes the elderly full of energy. Movement is mixed with music, and music coordinates movement. Beautiful light music makes people feel relaxed, relaxed and contented. It not only makes the elderly happy, increases appetite, restores physical strength, eliminates fatigue, and helps sleep, but can also treat many diseases (such as mental depression, etc.), and can significantly lower blood pressure and alleviate or cure it. clinical The role of symptoms.

　　8. Improve memory

　　The memory ability of the elderly will slowly decline as they age. During the line dance practice, the elderly's attention will be focused on the hearing memory and dance posture memory. Through line dance practice and continuous stimulation of the brain nerves, the psychological phenomenon of memory loss can be slowed down and a wonderful brain-building effect can be achieved.

　　What kind of dance is suitable for the elderly?

　　1. Ballroom dance

　　Ballroom dance is a walking pas de deux performed by men and women. It is specifically divided into modern dance and Latin dance. Modern dance includes waltz, Viennese waltz, tango, foxtrot and quickstep.； Latin dances include rumba, cha cha, samba, jive and doble.

　　Middle-aged and elderly people can choose the waltz. The waltz dance steps run smoothly in the slow three-beat dance music. Because of the obvious lifting and falling movements, it feels like a continuous wave. Together with the gentle and dexterous tilting, swinging, reflexive and rotating movements as well as various graceful shapes, the waltz has a solemn, elegant, gorgeous and unique charm, and is known as the "Queen of Dances".

　　For middle-aged and elderly people, it is best to choose dance that is soothing. Waltz is gentle and gentle, and the control of the body during dance helps to shape a beautiful body shape, which is very suitable for middle-aged and elderly people. In addition, waltz can also cultivate elegance and enhance self-confidence.

　　2. Square dance

　　Nowadays, square dancing can be said to be popular all over China, and many elderly people love square dancing very much. This kind of sports dance has no age limit, simple movements, repetitive dance steps, and is easy to master. There are 12 steps, 16 steps, 18 steps, 20 steps, 22 steps, 24 steps, 25 steps, 27 steps, 30 steps, 34 steps, 36 steps, 37 steps, 40 steps, etc. The maximum number is 200 to 300 steps.

　　It is not limited by the venue. You can jump right away in squares, parks, streets, and playgrounds, as long as there is an open space and a sound system. This kind of dance does not require a partner, so it is called a solo dance, but since everyone dances together, the entire dance group is your partner, so it is also called a group dance. Various popular songs and various types of dance movements can be changed and integrated into square dance. Learning to dance square dance can not only help you learn elegant postures, but also relax your mood, relieve tension, and easily achieve the effect of fitness and weight loss, making your life healthier and better.

　　3. Senior Disco

　　The biggest feature of senior disco is that it is unrestrained. In addition to some specific steps, it can imitate some actions in daily life impromptu according to changes in rhythm. The steps are flexible and free, whether it is difficult or easy, and it can also be improvised. Men and women can dance in pairs, or they can dance together as a group. It is the "darling" of elderly dance.

　　4. Yangge

　　Yangko dance, also known as Yangko twisting, has a long history and is one of the most representative folk dance forms in my country. It is also a unique collective song and dance art in folk squares. It is also popular with farmers because of its colorful dance styles.

　　Yangko dance has its own style and characteristics. It usually consists of a dance team of more than ten to a hundred people. They dress up as characters from historical stories, myths and legends and real life while dancing. They are good at changing various formations according to the rhythm of drums. In addition, the dance postures are rich and colorful, and it is very popular among the audience.

　　5. Shadow puppet dance

　　The dance movements of shadow puppets include bowing forward and leaning back, sometimes leaping in the air, sometimes swinging arms and twisting shoulders, which imitate the stiff and exaggerated movements of shadow puppet characters. It is characterized by a wide range of extension and flexion of the neck and waist, and rhythmic and coordinated movements of the joints and muscles of the upper and lower limbs. This dance, like other dances, can not only exercise Joints and muscles can also help the elderly maintain and promote body balance and response functions, thereby effectively preventing age-related diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis and muscle atrophy, and delaying the process of physical degeneration.