Zumba is a fitness program that combines Latin and international music with dance moves. It was created by choreographer Alberto "Beto" Perez in the 1990s as a way to make aerobic exercise fun and engaging. Zumba incorporates fast and slow interval training to improve cardiovascular fitness. Some benefits of Zumba include weight loss, a toned physique, meeting new friends, an improved mood, and better coordination.

1. ZUMBA

2. OBJECTIVE
After listening to this report, you should be able to;
• Define Zumba
• Improve cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness
• Improve ability to concentrate and pay attention
• Create and perform Zumba routine

3. WHAT IS ZUMBA?

4. One of the popular forms of aerobic exercise wherein
everybody can engage in Zumba. This Fitness activity
provides the participants to experience various rhythmic
choreography that makes their core work and burns
calories accompanied by upbeat music

5. Zumba is a fitness program that combines Latin and
international music with dance moves. Zumba routines
incorporate interval training alternating fast and slow
rhythms to help improve cardiovascular fitness.
Zumba is an aerobic activity that can count toward
the amount of aerobic activity recommended for most
healthy adults by the Department of Health and Human
Services.

6. WHERE DID ZUMBA COME FROM,
AND HOW DID IT GET SO POPULAR?

7. Zumba was created by the choreographer and
fitness instructor Alberto “Beto” Perez in the mid-
1990s. According to the official Zumba website, it
was a result of a “happy accident”.

8. In 2001, he started teaching his hybrid dance/aerobics
in Miami, and through another “happy accident”, he got in
touch with two other Albertos – Alberto Perlman and
Alberto Aghion.
They called the new style “Zumba”, a word that
doesn’t have any specific meaning but has become
synonymous with this great combination of fitness and fun,
and brought it to fitness centers all over the world.

9. Zumba was designed to be low-impact, and to be an
intense and efficient calorie-burning workout that is
adaptable and suitable for all different ages, body types
and levels of fitness.

10. The guidelines recommend at least 150 minutes of
moderate aerobic activity or 75 minutes of vigorous
aerobic activity a week, or a combination of moderate and
vigorous activity. But even small amounts of physical
activity are helpful. Being active for short periods of time
throughout the day can add up to provide health benefits.

11. 1. Weight Loss
2. Toned Physique
3. Meet New Friends
4. Always be in good mood
5. Better coordination
BENEFITS OF ZUMBA FOR FITNESS