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    "Dancing with the Stars" Weight-Loss Workouts

    By | Healthy Living – Sat, Apr 28, 2012 12:36 AM EDT

    BeFit... Transform Yourself.

    Dancing with the StarsForget treadmills, elliptical, and spinning. You won't get this workout at a gym. From simple ab toning to dress-size dropping weight loss, "Dancing with the Stars" is responsible for transforming the bodies of its competitors like Kelly Osborne- who lost 20 pounds, Melissa Gilbert who dropped her dress size from a size 6 to a 2, and then there is Marie Osmond, Mark Cuban, and Kirstie Alley- who each lost 30 pounds! As you strut, shimmy and gyrate, you are shake the pounds off, toning your abs, tightening your butt, and slimming your entire body- legs, arms, core and more. Different from moving just front to back or even side to side, dancing engages your entire body, spiking your heart rate and working muscles you hardly knew existed! Remember: when your heart rate goes up, your weight goes down.

    You've seen the celebs shedding serious pounds right before your eyes. Now it's your turn! The best part is: you get to shake it and lose weight at home, without America watching, with the "Dancing" pros, and you don't even need a partner!

    PRIVATE DANCING AT HOME WITH CHERYL BURKE, KYM JOHNSON, MAKSIM (and more)
    Stop viewing dance as a spectator sport and instead start shimmying your stomach… right now- no partner needed. Feel sexy as you sweat, shake, and sizzle away those last 10 pounds of weight with the cha-cha, samba, merengue, and Latin cardio dance routines straight from the trim hips and tone abs of the "Dancing with the Stars" pro dancers. Yes, Cheryl Burke, Kym Johnson, Chelsie Hightower, Lacey Schwimmer, and Maksim Chmerkovsk are coming to your living room- every Monday… for free (watch DWTS anytime on Lionsgate BeFit and subscribe to be notified when new workouts are posted every Monday!).



    More than workouts taught by celebrity dance instructors and internationally known dance champs, you'll learn similar styles of dance featured on "Dancing with the Stars"- like Samba and Latin in a cardio dance routine, giving you serious appreciation for what the celebs are likely going through each week as they do their best to learn, master, and perform an entire dance routine, dazzling an audience of millions, all the while slimming down before your eyes!

    THE ULTIMATE CARDIO SLIM-DOWN
    While you're shimmying and shaking, you'll simultaneously be burning fat shaping those abs into 6-pack perfect! Fact is- dance is a full-body workout that ups your heart rate, gets your blood flowing, and burns an insane amount of calories and fat (sometimes even more than traditional exercises). But more than a cardio movement, dance simultaneously strengthens and tones your muscles. Each style of dance focuses on a different body part. So mixing it up is the best way to go.

    How many calories are we talking? You actually can burn as many as 500-1000 calories in one hour-long session. It totally depends on what you put into it, how hard your work, how intensely you shake it… you take out what you put in. You're already on the computer… may as well click the link and start burning calories right now.