Artistic Athlete is a series of classes and workshop that teaches young/pre-professional dancers how to reinforce their technique foundation in order to prolong, maintain and enhance their dancing capabilities. A dancer’s body travels through extreme ranges of physical motion that require high levels of ability in a diverse collection of physical capacities: strength, flexibility, endurance, alignment, coordination and relaxation. Lack of proper activation of the core, aerobic endurance, stamina, misalignment and muscle imbalances are the leading causes of dance related injuries. The workshops focus on:
-increasing strength for power, stability and flexibility
-increasing muscular and aerobic endurance,
-understanding anatomical alignment of the body
-nutrition and fueling the body for training and performance
-proper technique of stretching
-creating and projecting a healthy body image
-learning how to create a supplemental conditioning program that is cohesive for specific training.
