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Salsa Diet Plan: Carbohydrates, Fat and Protein Make for a Lean Salsa Dance Body!
By Evan Margolin
Salsa dancers put a lot of effort into attaining their lean physiques. They dance for hours and hours practicing their movements repeatedly to ensure their dance routine is performed without a hitch. But it is not only the rigorous training regimen that gives dancers their lean, graceful bodies. Their diet is also a key factor in helping them attain these lean, modelesque physiques.
Just like sports athletes, dancers are athletes too. That is why it is so essential to have a proper health plan in place to keep you in tip-top shape, but also giving you the energy and stamina to dance up a storm.
Here is a diet plan to help you attain the look of a dancer:
Many starting out dancers fail to realize that the right diet plan makes all the difference in performance as well as how your body looks. Carbohydrates are essential for energy. Carbohydrates like rice and pasta are broken down into sugar molecules that are later used in muscle tissue and liver as glycogen. Salsa dancing is an endurance sport that requires muscle glycogen.
If your muscle glycogen levels are depeleted faster than they are replaced, this leads to fatigue, which is a killer for any high intensity exercise training like salsa dancing. High levels of glycogen are especially important during intense salsa competitions. Stamina is key!
In order to prevent your glycogen levels from getting too low, make sure you are eating your carbohydrate rich foods. As mentioned, pasta, whole grains and rice have excellent carbohydrate levels necessary for athletes in high endurance sports like salsa dancing. Try eating foods with the best sources of carbohydrates such as these. But also breads, cereals, and legumes such as beans and peas are also a great source as well as fruits and vegetables.
You will require about 60-70% of your daily total calories from complex carbohydrates.
An easy way to figure out how many grams of carbohydrates you should be consuming each day, simply multiply your weight in pounds by 3.2.
Take care of your diet first and your salsa dancing body will be just that much closer!
Good luck! Want to start using this diet plan to begin salsa dancing now? Visit www.salsadancedvd.com.
Evan Margolin shares his passion for salsa through DanceSF, the premier salsa studio in the Bay Area, his Learn to Salsa DVDs (http://www.salsadancedvd.com) and SalsaCrazy.com, a comprehensive guide to salsa news and events in the Bay Area.
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