Quick Facts: Get Funky.

Picture this: your hips are moving, arms pumping, feet stomping, heart racing and sweats dripping from your forehead, sounds like a hard workout right? More like a fun one. You are doing the salsa, tango, or maybe belly dancing or hip hop. Whatever your dancing style, it is a great way to get in shape and challenge yourself in a new area of fitness.

Along with the endorphins (or happiness) felt after dancing, it increases strength through repetition, improves flexibility, works the lungs and heart (cardio), and tightens core, according to Dudley Flores, director of dance workout programs at Rhythm and Motion Dance Center.

"The last fitness benefit would be coordination. Dancing can help overcome clumsiness. I think clumsiness is more mental than physical. If someone feels that they have two left feet going into a class, they will almost always overcome it and learn the choreography. Someone who isn't coordinated can definitely take a class and grow from it," says Flores.

Buzzle.com says that dancing is the eternal stress reliever. Even if you just hit the club with friends, dancing can burn up to 300 calories per hour (for 150 pound person).

Less stress, better health, improved weight and muscle tone, doesn't get much better than that… wait I take that back, it's FUN too!

Have you signed up for a dance class yet?