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Dancing with the Stars Karina Smirnoff

Dancing with the Stars Karina Smirnoff

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Put your dancing shoes on, cause Young Hollywood's taking you to a dance class with Dancing with the Stars sexy, Karina Smirnoff, at the ultra-exclusive Sports Club/LA.

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Young Hollywood

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Karina Smirnoff

Hi Young Hollywood, I'm Karina Smirnoff and we're here at Sports Club LA in West LA and we're about to do a mambo class.

Young Hollywood

What can everyone expect out of today's class?

Karina Smirnoff

It's a dancing class so everyone's going to be able to have fun, to enjoy it, get a little bit of a workout and hopefully get introduced to dancing and going to want to start taking lessons and maybe bring the significant other and get into a great shape and have a great workout and have a great um fun routine for the holidays.

Young Hollywood

What are you doing for workouts?

Karina Smirnoff

Honestly, dancing in itself is a great workout to um for any body type. You get kind of all around every single muscle group is working, you get all rounded workout in that sense. Then you also active because you gotta think of the steps, what's coming up. You get um a little bit of everything. It's a great, great deal to get into shape. I never really thought that I was gonna be a dancer professionally. Um I loved dancing and I loved doing it as a hobby but my kinda idea of uh career was going to law school and becoming a lawyer. However, dancing took off um like almost an ordeal. Now it's pretty much impossible to walk away from.

Young Hollywood

And your students today, we're at the Sports Club LA of course. What kind of dance are we gonna be doing?

Karina Smirnoff

I'm gonna give them a little um hardest step so they can actually sweat and get their heart pumping. But uh at the same time they're gonna learn how to do a little bit of mambo save if they're at the club, at the wedding, at the party and the music is on they'll be able to come out and do a couple of steps.

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FAQ

Who is teaching the dance class?+
The dance class is being taught by Karina Smirnoff, a professional dancer known from Dancing with the Stars.
What type of dance is taught in the class?+
The class focuses on teaching mambo, including steps that can be used at clubs, weddings, or parties.
What are the benefits of dancing as a workout?+
Dancing provides an all-around workout, engaging every muscle group, improving fitness, and requiring mental activity to remember steps.
What was Karina Smirnoff's original career aspiration?+
Karina Smirnoff originally planned to go to law school and become a lawyer before her dance career took off.

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