My cumulative total of 2515 miles from the past 39 weeks took me 416. 5 hours to complete. Just for kicks and giggles, or maybe more like shakes and wiggles, I am featuring hula dancing as this month s highlight workout. After many years of wanting to learn hula, I finally mustered up enough gumption to enroll in lessons. Amazingly, our area is home to a premiere hula dance school headed up by a professional Polynesian dancer. And even more amazing is that hula dancing IS a workout.
People incorrectly assume that hula involves the hips.
Rather, hula dance relies heavily on the quadriceps. Our knees are bent most of the time, and our arms are constantly raised and in motion. So, by the end of a lesson, we work up quite a sweat and a heart rate. The class I m enrolled in consists mainly of beginners, average age of 35, whose dance experience harks back to the disco era. Unfortunately, doing The Hustle and doing the hula are not at all alike.