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At the beginner level, ballroom dancers will probably get a more vigorous workout with 
Latin dances such as the cha-cha and the rumba or swing dances, and should wear Latin Ballroom Dance shoes, says a ballroom instructor for the YCMA artEMBRACE program. At more advanced levels, dancers start really honing technique, which can make any dance style a workout. “The glutes, legs, abdominals are worked a lot with Latin dances,” she said. “Then the shoulders and upper arms. Because they’re ‘dancing in the frame’ together, both dancers have to hold this position, which is the equivalent of holding your arms out for a really long time.” She likens the benefits of dancing two or three evenings a week to the equivalent of what you’d get from going to the gym just as often.
