With many fitness workouts to choose from, fitness enthusiasts are often confused regarding thhe benefits of each. In this article we"ll compare Aerobics and Zumba both in terms of fitness, weight loss and calorie consumption.
Should I join Zumba or Aerobics? This is one of the most asked questions when people call The Dance Academy. These are people looking for a fitness workout most often with the objective of losing weight and sometimes for the purpose of generally staying fit or because they love to dance.
ZUMBA VS AEROBICS - WHICH ONE SHOULD I GO FOR?
Losing weight
You lose weight when he number of calories ou burn working out is more than the number of calories you letting your body consume the stored fat. Typically in a gym, the cardiovascular exercise can be very monotonous and boring that's why many people look for fitness workouts outside of the gym. Aerobics and Zumba are right up there when it comes to people's choice for weight loss. A 1hour Zumba session involves continously moving our body in Latin American dance movements(specially selected strenuous ones) that make you sweat, exhaust you and help you burn fat. What's most amazing is that you eenjoy it because you're dancing throuhout.
Aerobics also continuosly moves your body usually on techno music on PT/PE exercise typre movements like "jumping jacks", "v step", "skipping", "a steep" etc. Aerobics includes 1 dedicated day a week of muscle based training which is carefully designed to work on every body part. However, because of the emphasis on muscle workouts and PE or PT type exercixe and not dance movements, it feels a teeny bit harder athan Zumba despite still working on the overall slow paced exhaustion of the human body and doing an equally good job at reducing weight.
ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE
Zumba s great fun thanks to its carefully selected LAtin American music and when you're performing steps from Salsa, Cumbia, Reggaeton, Meringue, Bachata, ChaChaCha, Tango, Martial Arts and even Bhagra, every session becomes a party! You learn new steps, whch also helps if you want to tak up learning one of these dance forms. Aerobics too has very good music, but you're exercising to it, not ddancing on it and it is very BEAT orientated, which is where it loses out on the artistic factor.
MUSCLE BUILDING
Zumba is dancig and it exhausts your body quite homogeneously. Aerobics is designed to work on every body part individually and it involves dumbbells and steppers which give you that EXTRA strength.
Overal Verdict:
Zumba wins on Entertainment and is a better choice for those who love to Dance. Aerobics gives you a more muscular body because of body-part focus and is a good gym replacement. Both workouts burn a lot of calories per hour(600-800).
WHAT SHOULD I JOIN AT THE DANCE ACADEMY?
Join Zumba if you love dancing and the motive of joining is overall weight loss or stamina building. Join Aeribics if you want solid abs, thighs and want to lose weight and increase muscle mass at the same time. At Zumba we usually have 80% female mumbers and for Aerobics we have 60% male members. Aerobics is 5 days a week and Zumba is 3 ddays a week at The Dance Academy which means you will burn ore calories per week doing Aerobics than Zumba.
Whether you joi Zumba or Aeerobics, either way you will do your body a big favour. At The Dance Academy we have both, so why not visit our Zumba and Aerobics pages and choose based on what time slots suit you. HAPPY EXERCISING!