Dance Your Way to Flat Abs With Hip Hop Abs Hip Hop Abs By Shaun T. HipHopAbs is a workout program designed by choreographer Shaun T. It involves dance moves that focus on tightening the abs using Shaun T’s signature technique, Tilt Tuck & Tighten. Shaun T employs Tilt Tuck & Tighten to replace traditional crunches. Many of the dance moves in HipHopAbs are a variation of Tilt Tuck & Tighten so that the abs are engaged throughout the entire workout. Dancing is a great cardiovascular activity by itself. When the dancing is focused on toning the body, it is an even greater workout. Even though Shaun T indicates that the moves from HipHopAbs can be done in a club setting, you might draw the wrong kind of attention if you try to bust a HipHopAbs move on the dance floor. However, in the comfort of your own home, Shaun T’s moves are great. Although the focus is mainly on the abs, most of the Hip Hop Abs videos provide a full body workout. …show more content…
Ab Sculpt, Hips Buns and Thighs, and Total Body Burn all use dance to tone certain areas of the body. Ab Sculpt works the abs without doing any crunches. Hips Buns and Thighs uses dance to tighten the lower body muscles in addition to the abs. Total Body Burn focuses on toning the entire body and includes the use of light weights. Although all of the Hip Hop Abs workouts have a cardio effect, it is Fat Burning Cardio that actually focuses on aerobic dance. The purpose of Fat Burning Cardio is to raise the heart rate through dance while having fun. HipHopAbs includes several bonuses. One of the bonuses is Last Minute Abs. This is a five-minute ab workout that targets the abdominal muscles including the obliques. Five minutes may not seem like a long time, but Shaun T makes every minute count. Also included are the dance routines Hip Hop Groove and Take It to the Dance Floor, which are choreographed dance routines designed for use in the club
Forman, narrated how hip hop culture maintained local tie and in built element of competition waged through hip hop’s cultural forms of rap, break dancing
gave the mic back to the DJ, who turned the music up. But since KayDe, Kelley, and their friends had always danced that way to hip-hop music, they couldn't believe Mr. Bennett would carry out his threat—so they kept on freak-dancing.
Hip-Hop’s criticism of George W. Bush is a good example of hip-hop’s reflection of Black public opinion. The Republican candidate who already had a low approval rating of 57% amongst African-Americans received an even lower approval rating after his lackluster efforts to support Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 (Jones, 2003; Cillizza & Sullivan 2013).
"I think the element of hip-hop left when rap music started being created on a slow tempo...It just stayed there for years. Right now, a lot of rap music today is being created at very low tempos. There 's no more of that 'wave your hands in the air like you just don 't care ' - you know, something that makes you want to get out there and breakdance...Rap music has lost that element right now, mainly over in America. There’s not too many great hip-hop records out there, but there are some great rap records.” (“The Difference Between Rap & Hip-Hop,”
The longevity of Hip-Hop as a cultural movement can most directly be attributed to its humble roots. For multiple generations of young people, Hip-Hop has directly reflected the political, economic, and social realities of their lives. Widely regarded as the “father” of the Hip-Hop, Afrika Bambaataa named the cultural movement and defined its four fundamental elements, which consisted of disc jockeying, break dancing, graffiti art, and rapping. Dating back to its establishment Hip-Hop has always been a cultural movement. Defined by far more then just a style of music, Hip-Hop influences fashion, vernacular, philosophy, and the aesthetic sensibility of a large portion of the youth population (Homolka 2010).
“Call and response” is also utilized, which is when the DJ and the dancers will communicate in order to maintain a certain hip hop flow, and to encourage audience enthusiasm. The moves, along with the music works together to emphasize the rapid rhythm breaks. The dancers perform moves that involve flips, upside down movement, and spinning, along with “drops” that were smooth transitions to “front swipes, back swipes, dips, and corkscrews”.” One dancer even performs a “chair freeze” which was originally one of the most popular break dancing moves, and is when the arms and upper body support the body while the legs and lower half of the body are free flowing (Forman & Neal, 2012, pg. 58). These moves require much momentum and balance, which according to popular b-boy Ken Swift, is an essential aspect to this hip hop movement (Forman & Neal, 2012, pg. 59). In both films, b-boying or breakdancing is a way to resolve some type of conflict or competition due to being able to “attack without mercy yet still see their opponents as distinct and valuable human beings” and avoid any unnecessary violence that already occurs in drastic rates within inner city neighborhoods (Chang, 2006, pg.
Since the beginning of hip hop culture, its music, its style of art, and style of dance has had a major effect on the world and it has increased. ...
So for eight months I’ve been learning the skills of hip hop and breakdancing by going to at a hip hop club at every week where I learned the basic skills of breaking like how to top-rock and six-step. B-boying is a form of hip hop dancing which is popularly known as breaking. It consists of top or up rock, footwork, spinning moves (power moves), and freeze. B-boying came from Bronx, NY. The term "B-boy" or "B-boying" was created by Kool Herc who was a DJ spinning at block parties in Bronx back in the days. B-Boys means break boys and they were called so because they dance to the break part of music. Later, by repeating this break part done by DJ, "breakbeats" was born. Although people tend to pick up only power moves, real b-boys should master the all elements of b-boying. There are controversy between people who emphasize on style and power moves. One puts his emphasis on power moves and their combination and the other shows their style and individuality by footwork and freeze. Rock Steady Crew has been the one who emphasizes styles to show dancer's individual flavor. Even though power moves have a great impact and very energetic, it is hard to put individual flavor...
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...as to end as we have contributed to the United Kingdom being the twenty-third fattest country in the world. Obesity is a major issue in Scotland with around 64% of people aged 16 and over being overweight or obese in 2012; with 27% falling into the latter category. The solution is simple. If dance was made part of everyday school life for all schools in Scotland this would help decrease these horrifying statistics, but in a fun way, encouraging pupils to participate. For example, the dance style “hip hop” primarily refers to street dancing. It involves various techniques such as “popping”,” locking” and “breaking”. This style of dance is very loose and free as there is no set formula to perform it unlike most academic subjects. This style taught in schools across Scotland would be appropriate as on average it burns six calories per minute as it’s very lively.
The bridge exercises effectively works your glutes, while also engaging your legs and calves. During this exercise you're lying face up on the floor with your knees bent and your feet hip-width apart, flat on the floor. After engaging your abs, raise your hips, lifting your butt and lower back off the floor, until your body aligns from your knees to your shoulders. Really squeeze your buttocks at the top of the exercise for two seconds, and then slowly return to the starting point. Finish eight to 12 reps and two to three sets. (See References 4, p. 50)
Personal space, body language, and overall interaction between the participants in the gym was something that I hadn't paid enough attention to in the past, from the distance I could see that their interests. The intimate couples that I noticed in the gym seemed again sought to have created a private space for them by erecting invisible barriers through their private body language directed only at each other, resulting in considerable more space between these couples and other groups of people in the gym. It was a clear and present body language of please do not bother us attitude left a sense of diffused power that would be involved power relationships that operate without covert commands and requests. The dynamics of the couple was something that was very obvious, in that I was able to note the dominant and the submissive person. The person who had a tendency to meet the needs and the one who had the ability to be demanding.
Although she doesn’t like men ogling her classes, Belinda Shakar does not shy away from the sensual aspects of her dance. In fact, that’s what attracted her to belly dancing as a teenager. “I really liked the sensuality of the dance and even the blatant sexuality,” she says. She had been taking traditional dance classes in Los Angeles in hopes of becoming a performer but thought belly dance seemed more interesting than the styles she was learning. She finally switched to belly dance after injuring herself in a ballet class. The accident convinced her that ballet is unnatural: “It distorts the body and torments it. That is still my feeling o...
Belly dance has physical and health benefits, remember; “A healthy heart is a happy heart”. According to Pina Coluccia “Belly Dancing strengthens the heart muscle and stimulates circulation” (Coluccia 84). Belly dancing is considered an aerobic or cardiovascular exercise. “Belly dancing can be considered a cardiovascular exercise, because it has similar effects as jogging or cycling” (Coluccia 84). Kanina says “Most of the students that attend my belly dancing classes, use belly dancing as a form o...
Have you heard the word Zumba, if not, I have to ask what planet you came from. The popular Latin-inspired dance-fitness class has caught millions of exercisers eyes with a fun fusion of dance steps and moves like Salsa, Merengue, Reggaeton and, the other sort of choreography you might see in a nightclub. In fact, it’s pretty much an international event that takes place in millions of areas. Researchers determined that Zumba is a body workout with built in variety because every class and every instructor is somewhat different. You can learn and experience the different type of people and dances during these events. After counting the numbers, people have found that interacting in one single Zumba Fitness class burned almost an average of 370 calories. In comparison with other exercises in the past, Zumba burns more calories than kickboxing, step aerobics, and power yoga. This activity helps with losing weight, learning to dance and move your body, and also helps with people that can be self cautious. Before some people took the class they would always think it would never really work until they had the experience their selves. (Weight Watchers.INC, The body benefits of Zumba).