My sister who lives in Jasper was the first person to tell me about Zumba last year. She took a class and said it was a blast...but then again this is the sister who took a belly dancing course, so I thought it was one of her granola crunching kicks. After she mentioned it to me suddenly I noticed signs advertising it everyone, and tons of people talking about what a sweat inducing, calorie burning workout it is. I figured if something is tons of fun and burns calories like crazy then I'd better give it a shot.
Today I managed to find a free beginner video on the interwebs. I'm giving you the link here, but as with all video uploads, who knows how long it will be on there! If that doesn't work for you, simply search zumba under google videos, more than 20 minutes in length. After the kids were all in bed, I started the workout. (I'm not a fan of 9:00 pm workouts....but the rest of the day was full so it was then or never...)
This is a great video teaching the basic moves step by step. But don't think you won't get a workout! I was dying. All in all, I did pretty well...WHEN THEY WERE SHOWING THE STEPS HALF TEMPO!!! Now I know why it's such an intense cardio....you really have to move it!
I'm glad I found this video...I don't have a lot of opportunity to get out to a class, and I'm not sure I would want to show up to a class without first trying it in my own home. I'm so white, it's not even funny. Well, I'm sure it would be funny if someone had a chance to watch me attempt the salsa moves.
Anyway, in case you missed the video link the first time, here it is again.
Do you Zumba? Any other great beginner videos out there?
I think I have those videos on dvd (I downloaded them) I couldn't personally get into them though, as I couldn't keep up. haha!
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