Fact or Fiction?

ballroomdancertoo

ballroomdancertoo

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I heard that the professional ballroom female dancers have an unbalance muscle structure due to their stretching their bodies in a diagonal direction. Is this really true or somebody just joshing?
 
I think to some degree all of us have unbalanced muscular structures (one side is weaker or stronger)...do ballroom dancers have that more than other athletes? Perhaps...I would guess that we tend to use one side more strongly, or differently than the other.
 
Polina Pilipenchuk told me once that on a trip to see a new chiropractor she was told she was completely uneven. As in, her left side was perpetually higher/longer than her right. Course, she may be the extreme given the height difference with her dance partner... :P
 
My physical therapist told me something fairly similar, so I doubt height difference has anything to do with it. ;)

Although I doubt this asymmetry is unique to ballroom dancing. Wouldn't golfers, tennis players, crew/rowers, and many other types of athletes have their own type of asymmetry in the body, where one side would be stronger, more flexible, or just built differently than the other?
 
interesting!!! That's might be true! I also heard from professional male dancers (especially those competes pro-am) claims their right side muscle stronger than left side mainly due to right side is the side to hold partners/students.
 
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