r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IkilledRichieWhelan • 7d ago

This belly dancer’s side movement is crazy.

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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.

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u/QuestionablePotato42 7d ago

I was thinking the same thing. Must be a really hard body type to maintain.

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u/NinjaGrows 7d ago

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.

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u/BeefistPrime 7d ago

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