Change your mindset to achieve optimal artistry and athleticism

This blog and website is dedicated to dancers to help them reach their full physical potential. I will share nutrition tips, workouts and anything and everything that will help you achieve optimal artistry and athleticism. This isn't your mom's or the everyday person health blog; it is a blog for the passionate performer, the explorer of movement, the physical risk taker, the athlete that wants to move effectively and efficiently, the artist that wants to move with power, strength, and endurance, and the mover that wants to continue moving. We are dancers. We are not just artist and/ or athletes. We are both. Often, dancers get caught up on the artistry, or the technique of movement and forget that before a masterpiece is created, the tools to create it must be working and functioning properly.

If you are thinking to your self, " I am an artist, not an athlete," then your mindset is abstracted from your body. An athlete is defined as a person who has a natural aptitude for physical activities. Just some of the physical activities of dance include: turning, spinning, spiraling, jumping, hopping, skipping, leaping lunging, dragging, jogging, balancing, kicking, pushing, pulling, slicing, carving, running, walking, swinging, and rolling. Of course you are an athlete, so change your mindset and start treating your body like athletes do! Professional athletes condition and fuel their bodies because they know that it directly affects their performance. Why don't dancers think the same way? Instead most dancers eat and drink whatever they want, forgo sleep and figure that rehearsal or class is enough movement to keep their bodies fit. If this is your mentality you will have a short dance lifespan. You will be rooted with pain and injuries from an early age. Do not be afraid to cross-train, learn how food affects the body and supplement you training. It will not take away from your formal dance technique, but rather enhance it.