Not only does this city have easy access to the hottest fitness craze, but KC has some of THE top-knotch ZUMBA® professionals in the WORLD ready to show them the way.
Tony & JessicaWitt, co-owners of Amoré Dance, are both ZUMBA® International Presenters and ZUMBA® Education Specialists. Tony and Jessica have been featured in the commercial zumba videos, created choreography for zumba training videos, helped write zumba programs (such as the new aqua Zumba program) and were asked to help launch the zumba program in Taiwain, China, Japan and Canada!
What exactly is Zumba?
It's a 60-minute aerobic-dance program featuring a variety of rhythms from all over Latin America. You'll get a taste of everything-merengue, salsa, flamenco, samba, tango, reggae, cumbia, calypso, cha cha, belly dancing, breakdancing and more!
Walk us through a class.
First you warm up for 5-10 minutes with toning exercises that work all of the major muscle groups. Then, for the next 50 minutes, you try out all of the different styles of Latin dancing, changing the rhythm with each song minutes. Finally there's a 5-minute cooldown.
What are the benefits?
It's fun, it burns approximately 500 calories per hour, and it's great cardiovascular exercise with moderate impact. The music is programmed to go from medium paced to very fast, then back to down again, which means your heart rate speeds up and slows down, making it easy to keep up. Zumba also engages the oblique muscles-which run along the sides of your stomach-more than some other exercises do, thanks to a lot of waist and hip movement. The belly-dancing moves work the arms, and virtually all of the moves work the legs, since you're constantly bending them to dance.
