Zumba Fitness for the Nintendo Wii - My Zumba Fitness Review

Zumba is becoming a craze. It is full of Latin-American style dance routines and is a high intensity workout.There are now many instructors offering Zumba classes in fitness studios around the world. I've tried a couple of classes and they are great fun but it's become difficult to get to these classes around work, studying and raising a baby. It's led to me needing a way to take advantage of training in my own home, which is where the Nintendo Wii game comes in.

Zumba Fitness is a video game for the Nintendo Wii, but it is also available for the Kinect. There are also dance DVDs that use the Zumba style to help get fit while in the comfort of your own home. You simply place the game or DVD on and can start dancing your fat away.

Zumba Fitness for the Nintendo Wii comes with a fitness belt to place the remote in and you can complete the routines and see how well you follow the on-screen instructions. You are given a percentage for how well you do throughout the routine. Zumba Fitness is a hard workout. After three routines I was left breathing heavily and sweating like crazy. It's all worth it though as I also had fun while completing the workout.

One thing that I love is that there are plenty of tracks to keep you going. There is a complete mixture of low, medium and high intensity workouts. This is perfect to create a full workout plan with a warm up and cool down, which are important to avoid injuries. You can create a customized workout with the various tracks, adding them where you want. I haven't tried this yet as I've been getting a hang of the game and been trying out the different settings and places for workouts.

It is possible to opt for the single workouts. You choose the exact routines that you want to complete and can do as many or as few as you want, depending on the amount of time you have. This is my favorite since I get to completely mix and match the different styles. I can slow it down as soon as I want instead of waiting a couple of tracks within the workout session. It also means I can train around my daughter's sleeping patterns.

There is also a Zumba Party mix where you choose a workout session. This is slightly different to customizing your own workout. You can do a full session on the Rooftop, in the Zumba fitness studio or in a night club etc. You have to stay within the set area when using Zumba Party. The workout sessions last for 20 or 45 minutes, which offers something for short and medium length workouts. If you want to do longer, you can repeat a workout after you complete the first one.