The Zumba Fitness programme is an exhilarating, high calorie-burning fitness class combining simple dance moves with high energy Latin music. Dance styles include salsa, merengue, mambo, flamenco, samba, belly dancing, hip hop and tango to name a few. This class is a real pulse raiser and you can’t help grinning throughout, thanks to the energy and enthusiasm of the instructors. Sian had fun working up a sweat and so did Sugababe Heidi. ‘I absolutely love Zumba – it’s really fun, and the Latin vibes definitely make you want to work out,’ she said.
The Zumba Fitness programme was the brainchild of celebrity fitness trainer Beto Perez in the 1990s. You can read the entire story at Sugababe Heidi Range gets her pulse racing at a Virgin Active Zumba® class
Zumba Fitness Total Body Transformation System DVD Set
- 4-DVD, 6-workout fitness set designed to work your body from head to toe
- Loaded with red-hot dance steps, pulsating rhythms, and easy-to-follow routines
- Comes with maraca-like toning sticks to add muscle to your sculpting workouts
- Includes basics workout, 20-minute express workout, and sculpt-and-tone workout
- Also includes “cardio party” workout and flat abs
What is Zumba?
Zumba means ‘moving fast and having fun’. It is a combination of fitness- and dance moves on swinging latin music. Salsa, Flamenco and zumba-dancingMerengue, everything is possible. Zumba is a latin dance fitness experience suitable for anybody. As an instructor myself, people always have questions and concerns regarding the workout. I say workout, but it is often referred to as a ‘party’ meaning it is such a fun and easy hour, you won’t even know you are working out.
Even Hip Hop Zumba is now popular! Every Zumba lesson is one big party, you don’t even notice you are actually working out and losing weight, it’s just like going to the club! No hard choreography’s, Zumba is there for everybody who loves swinging on music! Zumba lessons are already available in over 40 countries, and this number is growing each day…
A one hour ZUMBA class allows you to burn up to 1000 calories per session on average which is fantastic in you think about the other exercise regimes you would have to partake in order to burn the equivalent amount of calories. Zumba is great for weight loss in both women and men.
Do you want to know which are the best shoes for in-home Zumba?
I found a great article by Robert Deangelo on best shoes for Zumba.
