Zumba

I bought zumba for the Wii and I love it. I bought it because is was something i could do at home and you can create your own playlist as well. :happy:

I have had a chance to look through the playlists. I do wish you could add your own songs.

Zumba 2 is brilliant and very easy to use. Who cares if you get the moves wrong, as long as your grooving away. It even tells you the calories burned per dance x

I've heard a few complaints that the calorie count is a bit off. Not sure whether it was high or low.
I've gone ahead and bought a HRM anyway. It will come in handy when I'm allowed to go back to the gym.
Damn, if you'd have told me six months ago that I'd be complaining about not being able to exercise, I'd have died laughing!

I L.O.V.E. ZUMBA!!! I was a dancer for 13 years growing up and couldn't do it after I graduated high school.. it has given my back my one huge passion in life! i love taking live classes and doing the dvd's and this is the first time i've had success losing weight consistently.. good luck to anyone who tries it, it is a BLAST!

I LOVE Zumba, i go to a class after work.

I have been to a few classes a couple were rubbish but i have finally found one i love.

I have the game on the wii too, but find the classes more fun, i love dancing so that helps.

I can't do classes. Me and groups don't do well together.
I'll stick with the Wii, as soon as I'm well

I totally LOVE zumba! There is a class offered at our Y, but I'm so bummed...it's offered at 7pm. that's kinda late for me I can't seem to work out and come home then go to bed a couple hrs later. I wake up at 4am for work, so going to the Y for a class from 7pm to 8pm and not getting home till 830pm is a bit much and a little late for me. But I would highly recommend it! It's all up to the instructor...hopefully you get a good one. It's such a great workout and you sweat so much, but you really don't even realize your working out that much.

As an instructor myself, I will tell you it so works! I lost 50lbs between changing my diet, some running and ZUMBA. And once you get the ZUMBA bug, you can't get rid of it! Trust me. I'm always looking for more music to choreograph to, as well as other classes to take. Currently I teach 6 classes a week, and if I didn't have a FT job I'd have more classes If you ever have the chance to do it live, DO IT! Live classes are so much more fun than the video game IMO - I highly recommend it

Love it. I take a class once a week and do it at least 2 times a week at home on my Wii. So much fun.

I love zumba, it doesn't feel like working out to me, it is just fun dancing........It takes a little while to get the moves down but then you can throw some wiggles in and it makes it much more fun. I say try everything once and somethings take a few weeks to really give it a good go, live life to the fullest!

Tried it once and loved it. Unfortunately my gym does not offer it at a time I can go. Some of us have to work so 8:00 am on TU/TH doesn't work for us, but I am over it. I will keep doing kick boxing, which is an awesome workout too.

Love Zumba. But the instructor makes or breaks the class.

Agreed

Love Zumba. But the instructor makes or breaks the class.

Agreed! Love my Zumba instructor!

I have Zumba for my Wii and I love it. It's high energy. The instructor is easy to listen to and follow. It breaks each move down for you if you need to practice it to get it down. There are a few different time settings and intensities that you can use that best fits you. The music is great.

The downside. There is no calorie calculator. There is a calendar but it's very minimal. It would be nice if it had a little more to chart your progress in the game.

I have Zumba for my Wii and I love it. It's high energy. The instructor is easy to listen to and follow. It breaks each move down for you if you need to practice it to get it down. There are a few different time settings and intensities that you can use that best fits you. The music is great.

The downside. There is no calorie calculator. There is a calendar but it's very minimal. It would be nice if it had a little more to chart your progress in the game.

zumba 2 tells u exactly how many calories u burn

I have done two Zumba Wii classes now. Yesterday I did a short low-intensity workout and today I did a medium low-intensity. Today it told me I had burned 493 calories. I have a hard time believing that because I don't feel like I worked all that hard. I was surprised to find out that I was sweating a bit though. I feel very uncoordinated and goofy, and can't really keep up with the DVD. I had been doing Just Dance 3 and really like that, but I have used that every day for quite awhile now and know all of the moves and exercises pretty well, so I was getting bored. Zumba is a lot different, and (for me) much more difficult to learn. There is a section that teaches you the basic steps but I didn't find that helpful because the Zumba routines use those steps in different ways than the way you're shown in the tutorial. But I like a good challenge, so I'm going to keep it up and see if I notice a difference on the scale and in how my clothes fit. I'm heading out to find a HRM tomorrow so I can be more accurate in my tracking.