Salsa Diet Plan: Carbohydrates, Fat and Protein Make for a Lean Salsa Dance ..

[noel conrad]

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.
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