Zumba DVDs Fitness Review



The worldwide trend of rising obesity and falling fitness levels have seen a lot of new types fitness exercises being developed to cater for the interest of everyone. One of these new exercise routines that have taken off is the Zumba. The beauty of the Zumba fitness routine is that is gives both men and women of all ages the opportunity of keeping their bodies fit and healthy without feeling like you are in exercise mode.

The Zumba fitness routine combines exercises that focus on a combination of resistance training as well as a high intensity interval training cardiovascular workout. This is then delivered to you through dance moves to a Latin style beat. The short exercises promote fat and calorie burning whilst toning your muscles. The basis for Zumba Fitness is to have some fun in a social atmosphere whilst keeping your body moving and swaying with the Latin beat. After a period of time I found that I had worked up quite a sweat.       

About the Zumba DVDs Workout

The Zumba DVDs workout combines many South American styles of dance including Mambo, ChaCha and the Salsa and combines this with some belly dancing and other westernized dance routines. They package this up and offer the workout in many different gymnasiums or for you to practice at home with your very own Zumba DVDs.

So how many calories does the Zumba burn from an average class? This is a good question with completing an average class you can expect to burn between 500 to 800 calories. This can be increased or decreased depending on the intensity that you can maintain. Completing one of the Zumba DVDs at home will help you lose weight and also help to give you with coordination and some natural rhythm. That beats pounding away on a cross trainer or burning up hours on the treadmill.     

The main ingredients in a Zumba DVD are the dance moves with latin music. You often feel as you are just dancing around your TV Room to your heart's content, without a clue that the movements or dances you are doing are part of a program that has been approved by the Aerobic and Fitness Association of America, American Council on Exercises and the Canadian Personal Trainer Association as a solidly made exercise routine.



The History of Zumba fitness training

Alberto "Beto" Perez has been acknowledged as the creator for this fitness phenomenon. Perez was working as a fitness instructor when he came into his class without having music planned for the session. To keep the class moving and participating, he ran off to his car and took out some of his personal Latin tunes. And the rest, as they say, is Zumba history. The Latin style of dancing, combined with Latin tunes have made Zumba instructors and participants better dancers all over the world. Also a lot of people who wouldn’t ordinarily join in exercise classes found a new and exciting workout that has helped them to shed calories and feel fantastic.

With the feedback received around the class Perez knew he had a new exciting opportunity to branch out and improve his routines, and make the most of the accident that quickly rose in popularity. He researched about Zumba, dances, and music, then headed off to the United States where in 1999, Zumba was officially born. Due to the success of the Zumba Classes the next stage was the creation of the Zumba DVDs which have sold well enabling students to continue training outside of expensive gym memberships.

Fun and Losing Weight with the Zumba DVDs

Zumba DVDs are all about fun with the added benefit of calories being burnt. A completed Zumba fitness hour, will see the average person burning around 800 calories, and all the while the participant sure feels like he or she is just having a blast at a party. Each of the moves can be cut down into smaller exercises that are ideal to complete when you have limited time to spare.

Since Zumba DVD’s cover most aspects of other traditional exercises, it is easy to see why a lot of people choose to do Zumba. If you enjoy something you are more likely to pull out the Zumba DVDs again and complete a regular exercise routine. It is hard to imagine a scenario where Latin beats and Latin moves are done in one room together with some rock and roll for laughs. That is definitely not a scene that says "Workout" to me. Whilst completing the Zumba DVDs, you never know don’t realise you are working out; instead you are just having fun, fun, fun!