Zumba For Beginners

Zumba turns exercising into a dance party - improving your fitness level and cardio health - while burning off the fat! A Zumba fitness session uses Latin dance music and moves, to motivate you to keep burning calories, for anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes.

Scientifically, Zumba uses the top-rated type of exercise for improving your heart health and burning off ugly bodyfat: Interval Training. For those wanting to lose weight, Zumba can help you burn as much as 600 calories per hour!

Fat Burning and Body Toning

The actual classes resemble dance choreography, with a variety of dance pace ranging from slow merengue to fast salsa. During the Zumba session, you will find yourself doing standard dance moves, cardio moves, bodyweight strength-training moves, and maybe even some jumps - all to highly-motivating fun music.

On top of all the benefits for your heart and bodyweight, Zumba also gives you a full-body workout. This means that almost every muscle group winds up getting toned and sleeker. However, since the classes are mostly made up of women, special attention is paid to toning your legs, hips, abs, and butt.

The only problem reported by most people trying Zumba, is that the instructors are trained to explain little (or nothing) but rather, use their body and hand motions to signal the upcoming moves and how to do them. This can be a problem for beginners and even intermediate Zumba followers. The solution is to use a Zumba-equivalent exercise program, where the moves are fully explained with free detailed videos... read more...