Many elderly people like to dance square dance, which has many benefits for elderly friends who live a relatively leisurely life. What are there? Let me show you one by one!

1, dancing for the elderly can keep fit.

1. 1, with good balance.

For the elderly, ballroom dancing for three months, three days a week and half an hour each time can improve their balance ability by 50%, and the risk of falling is obviously reduced, which has obvious effect on preventing fractures caused by falls of the elderly.

1.2, anti-aging

To slow down aging, it is often said that people get old first, dancing is a good leg exercise, and people who often dance walk lightly, so some people say that dancers don't like aging.

1.3, shaping the body

Dancers are getting more and more beautiful, and people who dance often will definitely not get fat. As long as the essentials are correct, dancing can reshape the body of the elderly. Dancers are well dressed, and no one will laugh at how beautiful and gorgeous they are dressed on the dance floor. After a long time, they will bring this habit into their daily life, so the old people dancing are young and beautiful.

1.4, promoting digestion

Dancing can enhance the secretion function of digestive gland, promote the normal peristalsis of gastrointestinal tract and increase appetite, which has a good effect on preventing and treating hypertension, diabetes, obesity and habitual constipation.

2. Dancing for the elderly can prevent diseases.

2. 1, prevention of Alzheimer's disease

Pleasure body and mind, relieve mental stress, and avoid senile depression and Alzheimer's disease. Concerts on the dance floor will relax your tension, and the division on the dance floor will make you feel happy and forget all your troubles.

2.2, strong heart and lung

Long-term adherence to dancing can enhance vital capacity, strengthen heart reserve capacity, enhance physical resistance, and reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, hypertension and diabetes.

2.3, enhance resistance

The elderly have poor physique and lower resistance than young people, and are prone to diseases due to external bacterial and viral infections. Dancing is an aerobic exercise. Planned and systematic dance training can enhance physical fitness, enhance physical resistance and reduce the chance of getting sick.

2.4. Strong muscle strength

Dancing is a whole-body exercise, which requires most of the muscles of the whole body. It can not only enhance muscle strength, increase endurance, but also improve body shape. Regular dancing can also relax muscles and bones and reduce problems such as backache caused by insufficient exercise.

3. Dancing can make old people feel happy.

3. 1, establish interpersonal relationships

Dancing for the elderly can establish good new interpersonal relationships, gradually dilute the original interpersonal relationships and establish new interpersonal relationships. There is no hierarchy, no hierarchy, no original identity, no region, no purchasing.

3.2, good hygiene habits

Dancing can help you get rid of many bad habits, such as drinking, smoking, playing cards and sleeping late. Dancing can make the elderly feel peaceful and uncontroversial, find their own position to reflect their own values and overcome their sense of loss. Dancing can make more friends and enhance friendship, especially those with different surnames and those who forget the New Year. The more friends of the opposite sex, the younger people will be, and they will not get senile autism.

3.3, beneficial to mental health

The elderly can enhance friendship, promote spiritual communication and relieve loneliness by discussing dance movements through communication. At the same time, dancing can help the elderly to relieve mental stress and avoid senile depression and dementia.

What should the elderly pay attention to when dancing? 1, do not move too much.

The muscles of the motor system of the elderly are atrophied, the elasticity of ligaments is reduced, and joint activities are invalid. Therefore, sudden and large-scale movements such as neck twisting, waist turning, hip turning and lower waist should be avoided to prevent falls, joint and muscle injuries and even fractures.

2. "Smelling Chicken Dancing" is unacceptable.

Many old people are used to getting up early and dancing in the park. Aunt Li, 56, danced with everyone in the morning and had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Although she was not killed, she was hemiplegic. Therefore, it is still too early to exercise in winter. It is recommended to wait until the sun comes out before dancing.

3, jump 15 minutes to rest.

Before jumping, you should do simple preparations for stretching muscles and ligaments for 5- 10 minutes, following the principle of slow first and then fast; Jump 15 minutes to rest for a few minutes, and the total time should be controlled at about 60 minutes. "Some old people can't stop when they jump, and it won't be good for more than 2 hours."

What are the taboos for the elderly to dance? 1. Don't dance after dinner.

Old people have poor digestive function. Dancing after meals will affect the digestive function and easily lead to gastrointestinal diseases.

2. Never dance after drinking.

Wine can stimulate the brain, accelerate the heartbeat and dilate blood vessels. Dancing after drinking is easy to induce angina pectoris and cerebrovascular accident.

3. Avoid dancing violently.

The elderly have poor cardiovascular elasticity. Fast-paced dance will make sympathetic nerves over-excited, leading to accelerated breathing, rapid heartbeat and sudden rise of blood pressure, which will induce or aggravate cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, it is best to measure blood pressure and pulse before dancing. The 457 Hospital of Wuhan Air Force suggests that the elderly can choose dances with a beat below 100 steps per minute, such as yangko, fitness dance, ballet, modern dance and fan dance.