What is Zumba?


Zumba is one of the world's most influential organizations with more than 200,000 classrooms located in 180 countries. And although the genre is best known for its signature "Zumba" category of Latin dance fitness, the company offers a number of additional fitness formats, from strength training to fitness classes for children and even water aerobics classes.


Each exercise involves a highly structured movement set on top salsa and international music. In fact, Zumba is a fun, powerful exercise that will keep you happy to exercise — and come back to get more.


Original Zumba Class

Zumba's most popular and popular program is its terminology, Zumba. This dance class has periods of high and low intensity that help improve cardiovascular fitness while improving balance, coordination, speed, and a certain level, strength, through accessible choreography lessons accessible to beginners.


You do not need any special dance skills to succeed in Zumba classes but those with a natural rhythm may start to move quickly. Still, no one keeps score, so just dance, let go, and have fun.


Classes usually consist of a series of Latin-inspired songs, beginning with a little warm-up song, building resilience during the workout, and ending with a cool song. Even if you are not a strong dancer, choreography is repetitive and built to be built on it, so most people will be able to keep moving as they go.


In fact, Zumba's great drawing is that almost anyone can do it, and no matter how fast you take it to draw, you are probably happy - and sweaty. No special equipment or clothing is required. All you need to do is give them an outlet and the support they need to keep going.


In the background

Zumba was officially established in the United States in 2001 by Alberto "Beto" Perez, a Colombian dancer who started a fitness class in the '90s in his home country. Perez's story of "going to the gym 'may be considered offensive — he was teaching a gym class at a local gym when he realized he had forgotten his usual music.


Without time to recapture his songs, Perez ended up using a few of his favorite Latin dance cassettes, and just like that, a new class was born. It became so popular in Columbia that pop star Shakira enlisted him to help organize some of his music.


In 2000, Perez decided to launch his own fitness class in the United States. In 2001, he partnered with two investors and released a series of info commercial Zumba DVDs.


Although the class was not successful overnight, it gained a lot of smoke, and in 2012 received more investment and expansion with more class formats, Zumba cruise trips, Zumba holidays, and a comprehensive teacher training program.


The concept of dance appropriateness was not new when Zumba gained fame, but the strong fun of its stages was. Also, Zumba's timing was right. By the early 2000's, major fitness centers, such as 24 Hour Fitness and Lifetime Lifestyle, were emerging everywhere, often including group fitness classes as a membership benefit. These gymnasiums were looking for different classes that would add value to their clubs.


At the same time, there was a growing focus on the concept of "fitness as well as fun" to keep members involved and interested. Zumba was successfully introduced to those needs and was widely regarded as a standard classroom offering across the country. As Zumba grew in popularity, it often became an influence on gym membership and membership retention, making it a winner for all participants.


Types of classes

Zumba tends to attract more female audiences but they are all welcome. And because choreography is very accessible - or even less so to those with "left two legs," people of all ages and dance skills flocked to the classrooms, especially during its thunderstorms between 2005 and 2015.


As a result, the brand has added many programs in an effort to make class and choreography more accessible to people of all ages, genders, and fitness levels. Classes include:


1.Aqua Zumba: Ideal for those with low-level injuries or the need for low-impact exercise, Aqua Zumba takes the Latin dance craze to the lake.

2.Zumba Gold: This modified version of the standard Zumba class is designed for older audiences looking for the same lively music and traditional class, but played at a lower pace.

3.Zumba Kids: Designed for children between the ages of 7 and 11, Zumba Kids transforms and breaks the Zumba routine, and adds games and activities to the classroom to keep kids engaged and enthusiastic as they sweat.

4.Zumba Kids Jr .: Very similar to Zumba Kids, Zumba Kids Jr. it is simply adapted for a 4- to 6-year-old audience and even more so as a "dance party" to help keep this age group "at work."

5.Zumba Step: Inspired dance choreography of the same Latin, but with the addition of aerobic step to increase the intensity of the workout and add additional leg strengthening exercises due to stepping and repetitive movements at higher altitudes.

6.Zumbini: This section which lasts 45 minutes once a week, is designed for very young Zumba fans between 0 and 3 years old; young people and their caregivers come together to get closer to music and participate in active age-appropriate play; think a little more "exercise," and "learning experience" more.

As strength training classes gained popularity over the past decade, drawing people to CrossFit gyms and recording classes, the Zumba brand has worked to add more energy options to its repertoire as well, including:


  • Strong with Zumba: High fitness exercises and structured movements to the rhythm of the music; pushups, squats, burpees, and lungs are the basic elements of this practice
  • Zumba Gold-Toning: Like Zumba Toning, but at a lower level designed for older audiences
  • Zumba In the Circuit: Designed as a circuit breaker, alternating between Zumba dance movements and full-body strength training exercises aimed at improving heart strength and muscle strength.
  • Zumba Sentao: She uses the chair as a "dance partner" to focus on basic strengths without using weights.
  • Zumba Toning: Incorporates the use of Zumba Toning Sticks (or simple instruments) to add a power training feature to traditional Zumba dances

How It Works

Almost all Zumba-type classes are designed as a 45- to 60-minute group exercise classes led by a certified Zumba trainer. This is usually offered at gym and gym centers, although Zumba instructors are welcome in market classes alone, holding gymnasiums, schools, or other venues.


Zumba Basics

Classes consist of a series of Latin dance songs, each with a well-organized dance movement that builds on the other. The first song gives you a slow rhythm to help you warm up, with each successive song growing stronger and more challenging, with a series of low-impact dance built-in to recover. Exercise ends with a cool song.


Between songs, you can take water and take a second to catch your breath before the next song starts.


Zumba schedules are usually based on a gym or fitness center where classes are held. For strength-based cardio classes like Zumba, it is best to get into a regular routine, aiming to participate in at least two to three classes a week. -3.