Zumba has been the word on many of people's lips as of late, be it on
the news, on the internet or in the passing conversation heard at work
whilst enjoying your coffee. You might be forgiven for believing that
Zumba it is just another obscure fringe form of dance or some fad out of
Hollywood, but think again Zumba is a tangible and highly accessible
new form of dance based workout. It is a workout and fitness achieving
tool for achieving better health and what is more is highly enjoyable
and allows you to meet new people through dance and that is always a
good thing in my book. Zumba unlike many other forms of dance is free
from the convention of having to partner up with someone and hence no
need to feel the embarrassment and shyness some people experience when
first taking up ballroom or Latin dance forms; moreover this means you
don't need to do Zumba with a partner or have to worry about finding
someone to dance with and we all know asking someone to dance takes some
bravery when not accustomed to doing it.
So
to surmise Zumba is a brilliant workout, it improves fitness and
general health and is a great way to get off the sofa and out of the
house and to enjoy and achieve the fitness and health you have always
wanted.
Where did Zumba originate from? Zumba is attributed to
being contrived by Alberto "Beto" Perez a native of Cali Columbia,
Alberto was during the mid-1990's a fitness and aerobics instructor and
taught the traditional moves associated with his craft and had done this
for a while. But as with some things they just seem to happen out of
nothing; a happy accident if you will. Alberto one day left his usual
aerobics music at home and instead had to improvise the music for his
class. What Alberto did was use mix tapes of the music he that he grew
up with such as Salsa and Merengue, and as if by magic Alberto had come
up with a new way to dance to music and one that allowed the music to
truly inspire how you moved. Thus Zumba as a dance inspired workout and
fitness regime was born and a new way to achieve health and fitness and
have fun whilst doing it had arrived.
In 1999 Alberto bought Zumba
to America and was approached by businessmen Alberto Perlman and
Alberto Aghion, they together decided upon the brand name Zumba Fitness
and trademarked the name Zumba. In the following years Zumba's potential
as a workout and fitness program really came into its own. DVD's were
launched and with the Zumba Fitness Party brand really becoming widely
known saw the first academy set up to train new instructors to teach
this new dance inspired fitness phenomena. In 2008 the widely successful
Zumba Fitness Total Body Transformation System DVD was realised
featuring Alberto Perez himself along with new Zumba Fitness stars Tanya
Beardsley and Gina Grant. More recently for all the video game
enthusiasts (myself included) a Zumba Fitness game was launched on all
the major game consoles, the Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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