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If you love everything about DDR and want to make sure you stay fit enough to keep it in your exercise rotation without having to fear the risk of injury, here are some tips to keep in mind with regard to the importance of stretching since your body will always perform better if you incorporate a series of stretches before undertaking any physical activity.

• Consider stretching to be as important an element as training for strength, balance and power.
• Proper alignment improves stretches and prevents injury consider practicing your stretches in front of a mirror until you know you have perfected alignment and can attain maximum benefit.
• Always practice deep and consistent breathing while stretching. To hold your breath as you stretch is counterintuitive to achieving any benefit.
• A tip for better breathing as you stretch includes inhaling through your nose while pulling air into your diaphragm not your chest and exhaling through your mouth. Pilates aficionados consistently use this technique to build core strength.
• You should warm your muscles before doing any stretching. This can be a simple (more…)

Even though we’ve all had to learn the hard way that “It’s harder than it looks,” you don’t want to give your friends the satisfaction of watching you eat it on the arcade floor. Even if it means a little incognito, at-home practice, there are a few easy tips to mastering at least the basic levels of the game.

1. Don’t Punish the Pad: Your determination and concentration may make you want to put down a heavy foot on each step, but this is not only ungraceful, but unsuccessful. You don’t have to stomp on the arrows to register your body weight, you’re not a feather. Stomping also takes longer and can throw you off balance, making the next step harder to execute. Besides, it makes you look like you have a personal vendetta against an arcade machine, which will lose you major cool points.
2. Stay Out of the Middle: After the game starts, there is no logical reason to have your feet in the middle of the pad. It’s much easier to go from one arrow to the other then to go from one arrow, back to the middle, and then to the next arrow. You won’t lose points for keeping your foot on one of the arrows, so don’t waste your time. Especially when you move to the higher levels, this will kill your game. (more…)