Salsa dancing is now increasing in numbers by the minute as more and more people are turning this into being their fitness exercise routine. Dancing is a fine way to keep in shape as well as enjoyable.

This sort of dancing is without doubt a fabulous replacement for aerobic exercises. Classes that are solely based on the sizzling music and movements of Salsa, Mambo, and Merengue are starting to get people interested. It was in the 1960s when Salsa music first came onto the scene as a rhythmic blend, birthed in the edifying melting pot in the city of New York.

The popularity of Salsa was on the rise when it began to permeate beyond the borders of the Latin neighbourhoods back in the early 1970s thus spreading like an epidemic into New York's dance halls.

From a strict healthy point of view, a night of Salsa dancing is a superb workout (exercise). It merges anaerobic and aerobic training by going to work on your stamina and leg power - not to mention what it does to those hips. It is the continuous movement that builds up the aerobic stamina while at a steady pace eating away at those excess calories, in other words burn them off. Salsa dance moves also helps strengthen and tone the legs while at the same time helping you to lose weight.

Experts have discovered and stated that salsa dancing can burn up to 10 calories a minute and that is minus the negative side effects of those high impact exercises such as jogging or running. Salsa dancing has its equalities to that of swimming, basketball or sprinting - in improving and helping your fitness. Dancing has to be one of the most graceful natural forms of exercise and a lot more fun when those hips begin to gyrate.