Ms. Namita Nayyar:
How are you able to take out time for dancing, considering your full-time profession of broadcasting acquires most of your time?
Ms. Lindsay McCormick:
That’s honestly why I had to quit competing. Well, that and I found dancing that often wasn’t kind on my body the older I got. It took a torn meniscus to convince me of that. [Laughs.] Now I’ve changed the way I view dance…as self-expression, art and exercise as opposed to a competition. Every now and then after a great class, I think to myself that I could make time to compete again. Physical health and mental health are important. You make the time to care for those things.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
What exercises comprise your dance routine?
Ms. Lindsay McCormick:
I always warm-up with stretching and a lot of abdominal work, especially planks. Everything stems from a strong core in dance. Then it depends on what style of dance I’m doing. If it’s ballet or contemporary class, next it’s lot of demi-plies or grand-plies to work my core, glutes and thighs. If it’s salsa or any other style of Latin ballroom dance, then most of the exercises require hip movements and twisting of the core that will help trim your waste, while being a killer cardio workout.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Do you think dance is one of the best workout routines? How?
Ms. Lindsay McCormick:
100 percent! It’s the only workout I can think of where you engage every muscle in your body while moving and getting your cardio in and having fun. Most days I wake up and discover a new muscle I didn’t know existed because I’m sore from class and my workout. But my favorite part about dance, is that it’s a mental workout as well. Picking up routines that quickly is not as easy as the Dancing With the Stars pros make it look.
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