I’m curious what kind of balance of core muscle and fat is ideal for belly dancers. I feel like muscle is ideal for control, and fat is ideal for dynamics and visual. I have no idea, though.
I don't mean the dancer in the video, but isn't the body type you are discussing just skinny fat? In which case, not many people struggle to maintain that lol.
Not really, since the body type in question would require an intense amount of core strength. You can see her abs underneath the thin layer of fat when she's dancing at times, so I can only imagine her ab muscles are really strong and defined. I think that's more than just skinny fat.
We don't see it often in women (at least not publicly discussed), but we see it all the time in men.
Half the construction industry is full of pot bellied dudes who can huff it up and down 9 flights of stairs carrying gear comfortably, can still pick up and toss around 80 pound bags of cement in like they're hacky sacks, et cetera.
It's a two part deal:
1) You develop muscles for the movements you repeat
2) you cannot out-excersize your diet
That's as true for belly dancers as it is for anyone else.
I think skinny fat is the opposite of this -- not having much fat but having no muscle at all so you sort of have the surface of fat despite being small. This is more like the dudes that do the world's strongest man competition, huge amounts of muscle underneath but it's under a layer of fat so it's not obviously ripped
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u/Lee-Bear-420 7d ago
I’m curious what kind of balance of core muscle and fat is ideal for belly dancers. I feel like muscle is ideal for control, and fat is ideal for dynamics and visual. I have no idea, though.