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An Incline Treadmill Workout for Muscular Power | Joel Minden

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August 27, 2016. An Incline Treadmill Workout for Muscular Power. February 28, 2015. By Joel Minden, PhD. Incline interval sprints are excellent for developing power in the hamstrings and glutes. A relative weakness for athletes who overemphasize their quads in training. Additional benefits of incline training include improvements in aerobic power, speed, and metabolic recovery time. Incline training also prevents overstriding. Finally, interval training is time efficient. Interval #2: Sprint (7% grade a...

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Body Types and Fitness in Three Types of Dancers | Joel Minden

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August 27, 2016. Body Types and Fitness in Three Types of Dancers. January 7, 2014. By Joel Minden, PhD. How do ballroom, ballet, and contemporary dancers differ in their physical characteristics and aerobic fitness? To answer this question, Liiv et al. (2013) selected 286 male and female ballroom. Dancers in their early 20s. The ballet and contemporary dancers were selected from professional companies and the ballroom dancers were in the top 6% of international rankings. Using DXA), and aerobic. These r...

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A Practical Diet for Dancers | Joel Minden

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August 27, 2016. A Practical Diet for Dancers. July 18, 2015. By Joel Minden, PhD. From the July/August 2015 edition of American Dancer Magazine. Like all power athletes, dancers should follow a sports nutrition plan that supports optimal body composition, energy needs, and health. But unlike other athletes, dancers also prefer to maintain a compact body with minimal mass. This means that it would take an unrealistic amount of additional dancing to see meaningful changes in body fat. Endurance exercise, ...

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Improve Your Social Dancing | Joel Minden

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August 27, 2016. Improve Your Social Dancing. September 17, 2014. By Joel Minden, PhD. Upgrade your ballroom, swing, or salsa dancing instantly with these five technique tips. 1) Lengthen your spine. Saggy bellies, rounded shoulders, curved upper backs, and turtle heads have no place in any style of dance. Your spine is curved, so don’t attempt to straighten it. “Lengthen” your spine while maintaining its natural curve. 2) Lead and follow from the center of the body. 3) Keep your joints relaxed and active.

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Strength and Conditioning Articles | Joel Minden

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August 27, 2016. Fitness Decision Making for Dancers. February 22, 2016. By Joel Minden, PhD. From American Dancer Magazine, November/December 2015. Fitness programming can be challenging for dancers because much of the advice in fitness magazines, websites, and journal articles targets sedentary populations or physique athletes. Dancers have unique goals. Of areas in which optimal decision making is important. If you’ve gone down this road, you’ve probably noticed that your body doesn’t seem to respond ...

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Resistance Training for Ballroom Dancers | Joel Minden

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August 27, 2016. Resistance Training for Ballroom Dancers. September 15, 2014. By Joel Minden, PhD. Written for the September/October 2014 edition of American Dancer magazine. Years of dancing can get you there, but a focused fitness program can help you speed up the process. Read the rest of the article at American Dancer. The following two tabs change content below. Joel Minden, PhD. Latest posts by Joel Minden, PhD ( see all. Fitness Decision Making for Dancers. February 22, 2016. July 18, 2015. To le...

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Fitness Training Improves Dance Performance | Joel Minden

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August 27, 2016. Fitness Training Improves Dance Performance. August 29, 2013. By Joel Minden, PhD. The benefits of supplemental fitness training for dancers have been established. For example, Koutedakis et al. (2007) found that dance instructors’ ratings of performance quality were higher for modern dancers who completed a 12-week fitness program. Than for control group dancers in the same company. The results also showed that higher levels of fitness were associated with more favorable aesthetic compe...

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Optimizing Activity-Based Fat Loss for Aesthetic Athletes: Interval or Steady-State Training? | Joel Minden

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August 27, 2016. Fat Loss for Aesthetic Athletes: Interval or Steady-State Training? June 9, 2014. By Joel Minden, PhD. Written for the May 2014 edition of Alan Aragon’s Research Review. To read the rest of the article, subscribe to Alan Aragon’s Research Review. Subscriptions to the AARR are $10/month, which allows you to access all previous issues written since 2008. Please know that I earn no money by recommending AARR. I simply believe in the quality of his work and encourage anyone with an i...I'm a...

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Dance | Joel Minden

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August 27, 2016. Fitness Decision Making for Dancers. February 22, 2016. By Joel Minden, PhD. From American Dancer Magazine, November/December 2015. Fitness programming can be challenging for dancers because much of the advice in fitness magazines, websites, and journal articles targets sedentary populations or physique athletes. Dancers have unique goals. Of areas in which optimal decision making is important. If you’ve gone down this road, you’ve probably noticed that your body doesn’t seem to respond ...