That poor girl next to me!
We Zumba’ed the day away yesterday at an exciting event to introduce a new Zumba tape, soon to be available for your home pleasure on Wii and X-Box 360 with Kinect technology (no hand helds, just the system reading your moves like in the picture above!).
For the sake of full disclosure this was 2 of us supposedly doing the same Zumba dance moves. Since my score was lower, I have to credit prissymommy with doing a better job. But hey, I am a work in progress!
So here’s the thing. I used to take aerobic classes years ago. I personally only responded to classes with good music, I am from the Bronx, that means I automatically have a lot of rhythm! Mostly cause my sister taught me how to dance, but you’ll have to read about that in the autobiography. I had heard about Zumba classes at my gym, NYSC, but they are at night and I am a stay at home dad, chained to the house. But wait! Soon I can have a Wii or X-Box 360 tape and Zumba in the privacy of my own home, thereby not scaring anyone at the gym! Just the people downstairs from me feeling the floor shake!
So what is Zumba?
“The Zumba® program fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, to get hooked. Zumba® Fanatics achieve long-term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in one exciting hour of calorie-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life!
The routines feature interval training sessions where fast and slow rhythms and resistance training are combined to tone and sculpt your body while burning fat. Add some Latin flavor and international zest into the mix and you’ve got a Zumba® class!
In the past years, the Zumba® program has become nothing short of a revolution, spreading like wildfire, and positioning itself as the single most influential movement in the industry of fitness.
As of May 2010, the Zumba® program is being taught at over 60,000 locations in 105 countries, has sold millions of DVDs, and has changed the lives of Zumba® Fanatics worldwide with an astonishing 7.5 million participants taking Zumba classes every week. “
Not convinced?
Not sold simply by looking at me “shake it” above?
Check out the website, ZUMBA for more info, take a class, and learn more about this revolutionary new way to lose weight!
The tapes are due out in November, just in time to start losing the holiday season weight, and keep it off!
I will post again as soon as these tapes are released so stayed tuned!
Disclosure: I attended a Zumba dance party in Manhattan and they provided me with a Flip video cam so you can see a video of me doing the Zumba – I am assembling a production team right now to film that event!
You look fabulous!
Awesome!!!!! LOL!!!! This was so much fun – and looking at these pics makes me want to do it all over again. Can’t wait to get my game so I can Zumba in my living room. 🙂
You’re Zumba moves are better than mine!
Hey! I have heard of zumba- it looks like an awful lot of fun!
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