Now, If Only I Had Some Kind of Rhythm!

Hello Again:

For many people, aging can bring a variety of undesired side effects, but one that we might not see coming is easy bruising.   All of a sudden, bumps that would have left us with no mark at all a few years ago will start leaving spreading blotches of blue and purple, and we will be trying to find ways to cover them up to hide our embarrassment.  We need to forget about simply covering them up and think about what we can do to prevent them instead.   As we get older, we bruise more easily because the resiliency of our skin has been reduced.   There is less collagen there to make our skin elastic, and this same factor that causes our skin to wrinkle will cause us to bruise more easily as well.  This is actually where an exercise program like Jazzercise can prove beneficial.

Jazzercise was created by Judi Sheppard Missett, who founded the program back in 1969.   At this particular moment, it is generally thought that there are more than 7000 accredited instructors, who host more 30,000 classes every week in 32 different countries.   That’s a lot of people who are all using the rhythm and power of jazz music to propel them forward in physical health, and there are a lot of other reasons to love it as well.  The workout program manages to fuse jazz dancing with resistance training as well as Pilates, yoga and even some cardio boxing movements, and we will not be able to deny the fact that the whole process is incredibly catchy.  People can get into it easily as beginners to dancing (I’ve been trying to learn to dance forever, and I’m still a beginner) or as expert dancers.

There are many benefits to the Jazzercise program, and they include everything from increasing our cardiovascular endurance to improving our flexibility and your strength.  This is extremely good for our body, and we will find that there is also something that is very emotionally and mentally positive (it’ll be positive for me when I catch my breath again) about dancing around to great music.  It allows us to express ourselves physically in a way that we probably have never had the opportunity to do before.

What you may be wondering is how Jazzercise can help us improve our easy bruising condition.  When you Jazzercise, one of the most important things that we are doing is improving our circulation.  This in turn gets more blood to a particular area, and it helps facilitate our ability to heal any damaged tissue there.  A bruise is just the breaking of small blood vessels just below the skin, and once the vessels have healed and the blood is reabsorbed, the bruise will be gone.  Also remember that Jazzercise will help us develop grace and strength, which can keep us from bumping into something that causes bruising in the first place.

When we are trying to make sure that we can prevent bruises before they appear, Jazzercise is a great place to start, but this is no reason to shy away from following our Bruises Be Banned daily program as well, which has been specially formulated to help reduce bruising and help existing bruises vanish quicker.  Just consider how we can get the great results that we need through a combination of our Bruises Be Banned program and looking up our local Jazzercise instructor.

Remember that the only thing that we have to lose by not following the Bruises Be Banned program is our social life due to our ugly bruises.

Talk again soon,

CC