Too tired to dance?

[pygmalion]

Have you ever been? I can't say I have. It seems that, no matter how tired I am, once I get started, the fun and physical exercise team up to make me feel all better. I often end the evening more energized than when I started. How about you?

[Sagitta]

Same here, to a certain extent. If I am exhausted, however, really exhausted, I can try to dance but don't succeed very well. :(

[Danish Guy]

Same here.

[Vin]

I actually get the problem where I am tired towards the end of the night. BUt then a great song to dance to comes on and I can't force myself to sit down.
Rest is that thing you do when the music stops.

[salsachinita]

If I'm kept dancing & entertained I never feel tired........until I sit down for a song or two then try to get up after that. I find it hard to get back into that 'warmed-up' stage once you've had a chances to cool down.

Does anyone else experience the same thing.........?

[dancin_feet]

If I'm out dancing, no, I'm never too tired to dance. I'll dance all night long if the opportunity arises! I have felt tired before going out, but it never stops me from getting out there. Once I'm among my friends and having lively conversation and dancing, I'm on top of the world. :D

[MadamSamba]

Too tired to dance? What's that?

Actually, that's not entirely true. If I've danced four nights in a row, I might be a wee bit tired on the fifth night, but that wouldn't necessarily stop me. Besides, it's usually just a matter of going and going and going. You generally only feel it if you stop.

[Pacion]

Same here, I generally feel it the next morning, rather than during.

I have been finding though that lately, there are times when mentally I am tired and if I go dancing, it is a little bit of a mess as I miss the leads then :oops: Oh well. Maybe the answer is to work less :roll: :roll: :roll: :lol:

[ShyDancer]

Never!

I have been literally falling asleep on the couch at home, yet as soon as I see the clock tick over to the time that I have to start getting ready to leave for dancing, Im up and ready to go!

[etchuck]

I only rest if the music is horrible or I can't dance to it. At least in my "youth" I recall salsa/merengue without a break (except for water) for about 3.5 hours straight.

[Purr]

If I'm kept dancing & entertained I never feel tired........until I sit down for a song or two then try to get up after that. I find it hard to get back into that 'warmed-up' stage once you've had a chances to cool down.

Does anyone else experience the same thing.........?

It's the same for me. It's like I'm moving in slow motion until I get "warmed-up" again. Or that my muscles start to go into shut down mode. What's bad is to sit down for several songs, and then try to get up and dance a high energy dance like cha cha or swing. A nightmare! :shock:

[DWise1]

At last night's Lindy "Sock Hop", I was talking with a girl while taking one of those extended breaks. Her mother had danced Lindy "back in the day" and had taught her daughter dancing ever since she was little. Actually, I had danced with her mother there a few months ago and she appreciated that I didn't try the high energy moves that the kids were doing.

Anyway, in conversation I mentioned to the girl about this thread, particularly the comment about having a harder time getting back out onto the floor after having taken too long of a break, something that I was experiencing at that very moment. Then we drifted off to the question of how they used to do and so she mentioned the night she had brought her mother along and her mother's comment that these kids were crazy for dancing every single song. She said that back in her day, they would sit out most of the songs, listening to the music and talking, a guy would sit down with them and talk for a while and then almost as a side thought, "Would you like to dance?" Hardly ever enough to break a sweat, she said. (sorry, I've already started dripped sweat half-way through the first song)

Guess we're just all too gung-ho.

[pygmalion]

Yup. I've begun to wonder if we're not all taking this dance thing too seriously. Back in the day, people danced just for FUN. F ... U ... N. No worries about artistry or technique or etiquette. Just fun. I wonder where we're going wrong. :? :lol:

[DWise1]

Yup. I've begun to wonder if we're not all taking this dance thing too seriously. Back in the day, people danced just for FUN. F ... U ... N. No worries about artistry or technique or etiquette. Just fun. I wonder where we're going wrong. :? :lol:
Fun and socializing. We're also there for the fun, for the most part, but also with much more emphasis on the dancing than on the socializing, it would seem.

[Sakura]

If I'm kept dancing & entertained I never feel tired........until I sit down for a song or two then try to get up after that. I find it hard to get back into that 'warmed-up' stage once you've had a chances to cool down.

Does anyone else experience the same thing.........?

*nods fervently* It's like running laps, and then stopping to walk a bit; when you try to start running agian, all the side-stitches kick in, and your body screams at you to stop.

During my first experience with a large time period of dancing (3 hrs -- probably nothing to you guys! =O_O=!), at the WCS group class/party I took, I was up nearly the entire time! I didn't want to say no to anyone asking for a dance, even though I didn't think (still don't!) I was that good, and I didn't want that to turn around and have someone refuse me (<-- *possessor of a FRAGILE Ego...* :roll: ). So, even when the balls of my feet started KILLING me (they had no support), I didn't say no to anybody, 'cause I didn't want to hurt anybody's feelings; and if I'd sat down for a long time, there was no way I'd be getting up again!

Sakura Kitty :kitty:

[etchuck]

Fun and socializing, of course... but dancing makes me feel really good, and dancing with someone else who is also really good and responsive to my leads and perhaps embellishes what I lead, that's worth it.

[MacMoto]

If I'm kept dancing & entertained I never feel tired........until I sit down for a song or two then try to get up after that. I find it hard to get back into that 'warmed-up' stage once you've had a chances to cool down.

Does anyone else experience the same thing.........?
Yes. I remember one night (Saturday night party @SalsaMed, after attending 6 workshops during the day :lol:) when I felt I was too tired to dance. That was when I sat down for a couple of songs because I couldn't find a partner to dance with. I don't normally do this (usually I would either grab a guy, get a drink, go to the restroom or wiggle by the dancefloor) but that night I did, and fatigue hit me all of a sudden. It was after 3am (I got there just after 11) and I was off that night anyway, so I left.

Often I go to a dance venue feeling tired, but as soon as I hear the music, I get a surge of energy. I leave the place buzzing at the end of the night, and feel tired again only when I come down from the high on the way home. Tiredness is something you notice when you are not dancing. While dancing, I may notice my feet/legs are sore, but I don't feel tired. Maybe something to do with an adrenaline rush, or was it endorphins?

[Sagitta]

endorphins...

All this talk of being tired makes me tired [yawn] Or maybe it is the gray skies outside.... :?

[Sakura]

All this talk of being tired makes me tired [yawn] Or maybe it is the gray skies outside.... :?

Hey! *grins* I like gray skies! :D

SK :kitty:

[tj]

Ok, I'll be the first to admit it.

When a band's been playing a really fast song, and it carries on and on and on and on.... well, eventually, I'll get winded and need to take a break. Haven't had a partner who seemed to have a problem with it.

[salsachinita]

.......Haven't had a partner who seemed to have a problem with it.

.......my guess is that they are all equally relieved :wink: (like I would)!

[squirrel]

:) I am sometimes tired... but I sit down a song or two and get right back on the dance floor!

[pygmalion]

When to dance: whenever your feet aren't bleeding... much. :wink:

[Sakura]

'Tis only a flesh wound! :lol: :lol: :lol: What're you gonna do?! Bleed on me?

:wink: :twisted: :wink:

SK :kitty: