Why don't guys do Zumba?

-Feminine dance moves
-lots of guys can't dance well
-ego

I actually like going to many types of group fitness classes, in which I am usually the only guy and I certainly don't mind the company, and I've become quite comfortable going to things like Group Power, Spinning, Yoga, Ripped, but Zumba seems to be at a whole other level that I'm just not comfortable with. Its probably the most feminine class at any gym. oh wait, there is a new one called Barre, which incorporates ballet movements for lower body toning, that one might take the cake.

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I take a Zumba class with 2 male instructors who used to be gymnasts. There are always at least 100 people in the class and maybe 5-10% of the regulars are male. I think it boils down to the differences between male and female body compositions. My amateur opinion is that women naturally have a higher body fat percentage, so we need more cardio, and the majority of us see results when we do it. Men are leaner with a higher muscle percentage, so they need more strength training and they see results when they do that. I think if Zumba gave men big muscles, they'd do it.

I only dance when I'm drunk and that probably wouldn't go over very well in a Zumba class.

I have been meaning to attend a yoga class, but I still can't get over the idea that the chicks will think I'm there to creepily stare at them twisting themselves in half.

You are. We see you back there.

Oh! Old thread! Got all excited when I thought you were no longer banned.

On monday nights we do pump together and then I stay with my wife for zumba.. Its fun and lots of movement.
I can not do the hip movements or the shimmy stuff but I like watching it and trying my best.

Because if I'm going to go dancing, I'm going to a night club.

I've had two male Zumba instructors, both straight (I think) and they were *fantastic*, but they were subs. I wish they were permanent, because they made it a straight hard workout with none of the goofy shimmying that a few of my regular female instructors include. I know it's dance, but I am honestly trying to use it as a workout, not as a "dance party". I love Zumba, and the 55 minutes of cardio flies by, but sometimes I feel like I have to modify the choreography myself in order to get my heart rate up and work it like an athlete instead of a stripper. I can absolutely see men avoiding Zumba classes taught by some of these (very talented) women.

When my daughter and I were going to Zumba our instructor was a man. It helped even more that he was a nice piece of eye candy. I thing that is why we continued going.

While it it fun I think it's two things:
1) most of the guys I know don't dance in a mostly dark club unless they're completely tanked so getting them to dance in a well lit room while sobor is laughable.
2) As a group fit instructor I find that fitness classes are primarily a women's dominated world. Most the women I know love the group atmosphere . . . most of the men I know prefer to work out alone or with one other guy, they don't rove in gaggles.

LOL #1 = truthfact

It looks fruity and I'm a chick. I abhor it. Much too frilly for my taste. I prefer lifting,cycle or something more male focused.

I'd rather do my own thing as I work out solely for me. When I lift I'm completely focused on what I'm doing, not looking around. When I run, I disappear into myself and my thoughts or into the music I listen to. I personally despise group workouts with a passion unless it's just me and one or two very similarly situated friends.

That pretty much sums it up for me. I've done some classes before and just didn't get much out of them.