Recently I purchased the Zumba game for the Wii at home and
it is quite a work out with upbeat music; which leads me to think, what are the
benefits of Zumba?
On the online newspaper Huffpost Healthy Living the
article “12 Healthy Benefits of Zumba” posted on November 2, 2011 it explains
the benefits to be: calorie burning, body toning, motivating, good results,
good for all ages, stress reliever, flexible, not time consuming, people can
socialize, body awareness, readily available, and a cheerful activity,
Dancing to Zumba includes music like salsa, cumbia,
reggeton, hip hop and a variety of others with the options of how intense you
want the work out which range from low to high intensity. My favorite is the
high intensity work outs because the music choice is faster pace and I love to
dance.
I would have to agree with Zumba being good to relieve
stress and is motivating because at times to go to the gym only few are
motivated to attend and this game as well as the classes available at the gym
provide a good work out without realizing you are working out different parts
of your body at once.
When I first tried the work out I felt a bit foolish because
you have to be a quick learner to pick up the steps but the game repeats some
of the steps and towards the end you have so much fun doing the moves and adopt
favorite songs.
I would recommend this game to anyone interested in a fun
work out who loves dancing or has free time to waste. And I go by this quote from Ruth St. Denis, "I
see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is
too deep to find for words."
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