Zumbatomic, Zumba Kids and Zumba Kids Jr.These classes usually last 30 minutes and feature strength exercises on various stations in timed intervals. Zumba in the Circuit combines dance with circuit training.Moves have been specially adapted to combine the same dance movements used in a Zumba Fitness class with those used in aqua fitness classes. The instructor leads the class poolside while participants follow in shallow water. Aqua Zumba classes are held in a swimming pool.

This type of Zumba class provides participants with a cardio workout and strength training. It targets the abs, thighs, arms, and other muscles throughout the body.

Zumba Toning is for people who do their workouts with toning sticks.

Zumba Step is a lower-body workout that incorporates Zumba routines and step aerobics with Latin dance rhythms.

Zumba Gold is a low impact, lower-intensity version of a typical Zumba class.

There are ten types of classes, for different levels of age and exertion. The music comes from the following dance styles: cumbia, salsa, merengue, mambo, flamenco, chachacha, reggaeton, soca, samba, hip hop music, axé music, and tango. In one Zumba class, a person can burn up to 600 kcal, depending on the energy put forth. Zumba classes are typically about an hour long and are taught by instructors licensed by Zumba Fitness, LLC. Classes Īn instructor coaches a Zumba class in a fitness center There are four basic rhythms: salsa, reggaeton, merengue and cumbia, and each basic rhythm has four core steps. Zumba choreography is composed using all or some of the sixteen core steps.

So he and his partner began to try initial letters until they liked 'sumba', but Beto Pérez decided to write it with a 'z' because he liked the fictional character Zorro when he was a child. Its creator, the Colombian Beto Pérez, wanted to call it ' rumba', but this name was already taken for the Cuban musical genre and could create confusion. Castilian and Latin American Spanish, it is stated by Zumba Fitness, LLC to be a neologism that was expressly created as a brand name. Though the word 'Zumba' has several meanings in e.g. The company expanded into class instruction and by 2015, according to Perlman, there were 14 million Zumba students in 186 countries. Insight Venture Partners and the Raine Group made an investment in 2012. In 2001, Pérez partnered with Alberto Perlman and Alberto Aghion, to officially launch Zumba and the trio released a series of fitness videos sold via infomercial. He happened to have cassette tapes of Latin dance music-salsa and merengue-and danced to them instead, which Pérez later taught as 'Rumbacize'. Pérez, an aerobics instructor, forgot to bring his regular music to his aerobics class. Zumba was created in the 1990s by Pérez in Cali, Colombia.

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