Women often look for physical fitness, burning calories to stay beautiful, but although they may go to a gym, do aerobics or resort to following a diet, the results may not be what they want. However, a popular alternative is Jazzercise, in which you dance to make yourself fit and improve the shape of your body. Jazzercise is a worldwide dance-based fitness programme that offers a wide range of classes. Each 60-minute Jazzercise class features a fusion of jazz dance, Pilates, yoga, kickboxing and Latin-style movements set to popular music. The classes combine dance-based cardio with strength training and stretching to sculpt, tone and lengthen muscles for maximum fat burn. Hearing a favourite song can brighten your day. Specialists say that music's influence on mood and emotions inspires people to move, and motivates them to keep going. Besides burning calories and building muscle, dancing engages creativity and opens new learning channels within the brain. More calories are often burned through social dancing than are burned in a gym. "100 classes! Come to think of it, it's not that hard to believe! It feels like it was just yesterday that I was sceptical, overweight, depressed? Basically a mess! Jazzercise was the best thing I ever did for myself," says Mona Shosha, 32, a mother of two children. The Jazzercise programme was founded in 1969 by Jazzercise CEO Judi Sheppard Missett. Today, Jazzercise involves 7,800 instructors teaching more than 32,000 classes weekly in all 50 states and 32 countries, which include ‘Jazzercise Body Sculpting' and the 30-minute ‘Jazzercise Express'. Children aged from six to 16 have ‘Junior Jazzercise' that teaches them co-ordination, strength and endurance, and the importance of physical fitness as they dance to specially choreographed routines to popular music. Jazzercise classes are now available at Smash Tennis Academy, Heliopolis, Arkan Mall, 6th October City and Cairo Festival City, New Cairo.
