If you love fitness, music and dance and are looking for an enjoyable way to stay fit, Socanomics is sure to be up your alley
Many people find it hard to associate fun and freedom with fitness, but Socanomics, a Caribbean-based dance fitness workout, allows for loads of excitement while building up endurance. Rooted in the essence of the carnival, anyone from a beginner to an experienced practitioner can enjoy this exhilarating way to move the body.
Created by fitness professional Selena Watkins, the workout fuses soca dance, dancehall and West African moves with high-intensity cardio and total body toning movement. Watkins, “Women’s Health” magazine’s Next Fitness Star 2016 and teacher at New York’s renowned SoulCycle fitness boutique, shatters the stereotypes associated with dancers’ bodies and workouts. Well-built and powerful replace supple and graceful, while dumbbells and push-ups trade with hops and shakes.
Watkins’ dance drills are super vigorous with movements from Afro-Caribbean dance, thanks to her Antiguan heritage. They include high-energy, rhythmic movement that bring your hips closer to the ground to work your core and lower body. The fitness motivator also adds creative strength-training routines, all while listening to sweet and upbeat Caribbean melodies.
Some of the positive results include a speedier metabolism, more muscle, flatter abs and a sculpted lower and upper body. Perhaps the best thing about Socanomics is that it is made up of simple moves, rather than the often-confusing dance ones, helping to make you feel confident and at ease.
