By Katy Winter Former Disney pop princess Miley Cyrus caused an uproar when she took to the stage at this year's Video Music Awards wearing a flesh-coloured latex bikini and performing a seriously overtly sexual dance routine. The 20-year-old's bottom shaking and grinding may not have won her many accolades in the music community, but a few savvy fitness fanatics realised that ‘twerking’ is a great way to tone up and burn calories. The ‘twerking’ dance, which has even been honored with an official entry in the Oxford Dictionaries Online, essentially involves adopting a traditional gym squat position and maintaining it while vigorously shaking the derriere.
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Miley Cyrus shocked many with her 'twerking' performance at the VMAs
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However many have realised the dance is a great way to work out
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Les Mills have adapted one of their fitness classes to involve twerking'
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Each 55 minute class burns an average of 530 calories
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Research also shows it also increases pelvic bone density by 8 per cent
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