Real Men Do Dance

Continuing our series on real men and their take on health and grooming,
we highlight six for whom dance means more than the usual variety of bobbing heads and shuffling feet.
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Fair Game

Having that regular game of tennis, swim or gym workout goes a long way towards maintaining our health and conditioning our bodies and cardiovascular system, not to mention toning those muscles. But what happens when things go wrong? What do you do when that backhand you’ve been working on transforms into tennis elbow? Or those running sessions result in ankle strain?
BJ TAN digs into the anatomy of sports injury.
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On The Mat

A fitness and health instructer shows BJ TAN some movements of Pilates, which helped her own long time back injury.
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Wake Up Call

Four ways to limber up before shower
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Enter the dragon

The boat is rocking gently but your heart is pounding. Breathing deeply and keenly focused on the opposite rower in front, you attempt to relax your mind and reach a state of brief calm.
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Lindy Hop

A hop-step-jump kind of dance, Lindy Hop has its roots in African dance movements and is a terrific way to keep fit. Although it can be danced solo, it’s far more enjoyable to do it in a group. With their partners, dancers step, slide, shimmy – and sweat! – their way round the floor.
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Partner Yoga

Partner yoga, whether it’s between lovers, family or friends, is all about communication. It forges a bond physically and mentally, and is a perfect tool for getting closer to the people that matter to you.
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Stretch To Heal

You don’t have to stay away from exercise when your body is hurting.
Working those muscles helps to relax them and ease the aches. Phillip Wain gym manager MAVIS LIM tells us how.
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Kids Wanna Have Fun

Start children early on exercise and they’ll grow up with a healthy appreciation of it.
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Belly Good

Dancing to a different beat can be great for your health, as JANAKI CHELLAM discovers.
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Posture Perfect

Good posture reflects a conditioned body and a positive self image. For some people, though, it's not that easy to stand tall. JANAKI CHELLAM gets pointers from Pilates instructor Ivana Daniell.
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Tone Your Body Fast

The quickest route to a toned body is to work with weights.
You don't have to be an incredible hulk, just yourself- but trimmer. By Jennifer Schoon. Start today and in a week you'll look toned, thinner and taller. You'll not only look better you'll feel great: certainly your
confidence will improve.
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Tailor -Made For Fitness

If you're bored with the usual, predictable gym equipment, you haven¹t seen the latest ones yet! In fitness clubs now, Planet Fitness Suntec City to be exact, there are 'machines' with pluses you'd never have dreamed about ­ until now. What's special about them? Unique features that enhance the workout of each individual user, male or female.
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Have a ball

Fitballs are so much fun, they hardly seem like exercise. Yet they give the body a great low-impact workout as well as strengthen the abdomen and back. Strength training on and with the ball isolates the specific muscles being trained while working to stabilise and balance the body. Because of its unstable abse, too, the ball works more muscles!
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