Video: Latin Dance Contractions

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Contractions are important flexibility exercises that help stretch out your ligaments. Learn a few Latin dance contractions to perform before dancing from a choreographer in this free video.

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Ok now we're going move on to the contractions. The contractions pretty much going to go to my stomach and am going to help me release more my ligaments so they stretch more. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring my stomach in. I'm going to bring the heels of my toes all the way forward twisting all the way back. Now I'm going to pull my toes and go forward and stretch. One more time. Contract my stomach, bring it in, and I'm going to reach and bring forward, and bring it in one more time, and forward. We have the same exercise. You can see it in this position, in this part, in this side of my body ok. So the same thing. I'm going to keep my body in. Be careful with curving my body. Keep it up straight. Alright? So that give me more strength yes, strength your body with that. Stretch it up, lean forward, yeah. One more time. Contract, stomach in, contractions and bring them forward. And you can do the same way if you want to do only for one side. You can contract and stretch, contract.Now lean your body a little bit to your knee. That is going to help you to stretch a little more to the inner thighs of your thighs, okay? Bring in forward now. Contract one more time and bring it higher and forward, and one more time, contract, and bring it higher and forward, and that's how you're going to contract your body. Let's move on to the next exercise.

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Latin Dance Contractions

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