Can I dance when I have my period?

Girls who learn to dance have to deal with dance every day, even during special periods. However, during menstruation, the body will feel various discomforts, such as back pain, weak legs, abdominal pain, and listlessness. This makes many girls worry whether dancing during menstruation is bad for the body. In fact, proper exercise can improve the body's functions, stretch the stiff body, and relieve emotions. It is beneficial, but don't overdo it or do it intensely.

In addition, dance training with musical accompaniment will allow the entire body and mind to be integrated into the music and dance vocabulary, and the shift in attention will also reduce the discomfort of the whole body.

Because the menstrual period has its own particularities, the following precautions should be considered in dance training:

1. Avoid excessive cold or heat stimulation, especially the lower abdomen, so as not to cause dysmenorrhea or menstrual disorders. In dance class, please bring a shawl or towel and wrap it around your waist and abdomen during breaks.

2. The amount of exercise and the intensity of exercise should be reduced on the first and second days of menstruation. The exercise time should not be too long, especially for students who have just started menstruation and whose cycle is not stable yet. Otherwise, it is easy to cause menstrual disorders.

3. During menstruation, you should avoid doing violent, high-intensity or high-vibration movements (such as the sago exercises in belly dance classes), various jumping exercises in dance, and movements that increase abdominal pressure, such as abdominal muscle training, static control training, etc., so as not to cause excessive menstrual blood flow or affect the normal position of the uterus. Routine training should strengthen the waist, abdominal and pelvic floor muscles, which can prevent changes in the position of the uterus and adverse reactions such as menstrual pain, and is also beneficial for normal childbirth in adulthood.

4. For students who suffer from dysmenorrhea, excessive menstruation or irregular menstrual cycles, they should reduce the amount, intensity and duration of exercise during menstruation, or even stop dance training.

5. Dancers who have been exercising for many years, have a high level of training, and have mild menstrual reactions can participate in normal training and performances during their menstrual period.

6. For dancers who have a short period of dance training, a low level of training, or have just had their menarche, it is best to reduce the amount of exercise load when training during menstruation. Because they need an adaptation process. In order to promote this adaptation process, we should follow the principle of gradual progress. At the beginning, during the menstrual period, the training load can be smaller, and then gradually increase the exercise load.