Zumba Blueberry Juice Combo Smoothie

Zumba Blueberry Smoothie
Two Servings
1 pint fresh blueberries or 2 cups (10 oz.) frozen blueberries - slightly thawed
1 cup pineapple or orange juice
1 container (8 oz.) lowfat vanilla yogurt
2 teaspoon honey or argave syrup
Combine all ingredients in your blender and blend until smooth.
Nutritional Facts Per Serving: Calories 175 Total Fat 2 grams Saturated Fat 1 grams Cholesterol 8 milligrams Sodium 80 milligrams Total Carbohydrate 35 grams Dietary Fiber 0 grams Sugars 32 grams Protein 6 grams

Zumba licious Dried Fruit Salad

Zumba licious simply quick and easy Dried Fruit Salad with Light Cream Delicately flavoured and perfect for brunch or dessert!


Preparation time: 10mins
Cooking: 10mins Serves: 4

Ingredients:

1 cup water 1/2 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon organic sugar
200g dried fruit salad mix
large pieces halved 50g dates quartered
1 cinnamon stick
125g Light Spreadable Cream Cheese
1 tablespoon reduced fat milk
1 teaspoon honey
1/4 cup flaked almonds, toasted


Method:
1. BRING water, juice and sugar to the boil in a saucepan. Simmer for 2-3 minutes until sugar has dissolved. Add dried fruits and cinnamon stick, simmer a further 5 minutes.
2. WHISK together the light Cream Cheese, milk and honey until smooth.
3. SERVE fruits warm with light Cream Cheese mix and toasted almonds.

Zumba Fitness Total Body Transformation System DVD Set

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Zumba Banana Coffee

Zumba Delicious Banana 
Coffee Sub Smoothie

Two Servings

2 heaped Tbps Ecco or coffee substitute
2 small frozen bananas
1 and 1/2 cups low fat milk 1
(8oz.) container low-fat yogurt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon,dash nutmeg.

Combine frozen bananas, milk, yogurt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a blender and blend till smooth.
Nutritional Facts Per Serving: Calories 275 Total Fat 2 grams Saturated Fat 1 grams Cholesterol 11 milligrams Sodium 174 milligrams Total Carbohydrate 52 grams Dietary Fiber 3 grams Sugars 25 grams Protein 12 grams

Why should I eat Breakfast

Why Should I Eat A Healthy Zumba Breakfast?
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It gives us the energy to make it through the day and keeps our metabolism high as well. It’s easy to skip breakfast with everything we have going on in the morning. After all, we have to walk and feed the dog, get the kids ready for school, feed the cat, iron whatever it is we’re planning on wearing to work and so on. There doesn't seem to be enough time to prepare a healthy and nutritious breakfast.

How Can I Find Time To Cook Breakfast Every Morning?
The solution - A breakfast smoothie. Nutritious shakes blend together in a matter of minutes. Just pour your favorite breakfast smoothie in an insulated cup and you have breakfast to go.

Ok... Breakfast is sort BUT What About Dinner?
Evening can be even more hectic for many of us. We have the best intentions to feed our families nutritious meals, but then reality (lack of energy) sets in. We spend all day driving the kids around, we are often running late because of a long meeting at work and before we know it is 6 pm and there isn’t a green vegetable or any ingredients we need to prepare a nutritious meal.
Try these Zumba smoothies, quick, easy, nutritious and easy to digest.

Zumba Ganga Zumba

Ganga Zumba Zumba Fitness

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Zumba Cardio Fitness Part 1

Zumba Cardio Fitness Part 1
Exercises - Low Or High Intensity Zumba Cardio Fitness Exercise Burns Body Fat Faster?
Have you ever wondered which cardio exercises are best for burning off extra body fat? Is walking (low intensity) better or Zumba Fitness Fun (high intensity) better for burning body fat?
Well, both low and high intensity exercises will help you burn off body fat. The question is which is more effective and burn more body fat. What is your fat burning zone?
When scientists first reported that during intensive exercises, your body burn glycogen, which is a form of stored carbohydrates stored in your liver and muscles for energy and during low intensive exercises, your body burns body fat, everyone suddenly changed their workout routines to perform low intensity exercises to burn body fat.
Does it work? I don't think so. Obviously it does not work because there are still alot of over weight people around although they are working out with low intensity exercises. Why is that so?

Zumba Burns Calories

Zumba Fitness Fun Burns calories

Have you tried to lose weight recently?
Well there's hope for you yet!
Meet Zumba Fitness Fun and Dance.
Zumba Fitness Fun and Dance is a really cool blend of Latin and International music dance themes combined together to create a fun, invigorating and successful body toning fitness program. Zumba Fitness Fun and Dance routines feature, aerobic fitness training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body.
Zumba utilizes the principles of interval training in combination with resistance training to maximise caloric output, fat burning and head to toe full body toning and conditioning.
It is a blend of body sculpting dance movements and easy-to-follow dance steps.
So how many calories does Zumba burn?
An average class can burn from 400 to 700 calories! You will burn more or less depending on your intensity and current fitness level.
A major factor in healthy weight loss is diet.
Watch for our next post on Zumba Fitness burns calories

Zumba Oatie Breakfast

Zumba Healthy Low-fat Vegan Recipes for Weight Control
Zumba Oatie Breakfast with Cherries


1/2 cup oats organic if possible
2 cups water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup frozen cherries (unsweetened)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Put the oats, water, salt, and cinnamon in a medium-sized saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to very low.  Cover and cook for 25 minutes.
While oats are cooking, remove cherries from freezer and cut each in half while frozen. Allow them to thaw a little on the counter until oats have cooked for 25 minutes. Stir in the cherries and vanilla extract. Cover and cook until oats are tender and thick, about 10-15 more minutes. Serve with your favorite sweetener.
Makes 2 servings. Per serving: 200 Calories (kcal); 3g Total Fat; (14% calories from fat); 7g Protein; 36g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 541mg Sodium; 9g Fiber.

Zumba Cardio Fitness Part 2

Zumba Cardio Exercises - Low Or High Intensity Exercise Burns Body Fat Faster? Part 2
Well, the scientists were right when they said that our bodies burn more body fat during low intensity exercises like walking or a leisurely swim. But during a high intensity exercise like Zumba fitness fun, our bodies burn a lot more calories. Even if some of the calories burnt are from glycogen, we will still burn many fat calories as well.
To add icing to the cake, when your store of glycogen is low, the carbs from your meal you eat later gets converted into glycogen to fill up the store and will not be converted to body fat when left unused for energy.
Furthermore, high intensity cardio exercises crank up your metabolism even after your workout is done. This means that your body will continue to burn body fat hours after you have left the gym. This effect is almost non existent in low intensity cardio or aerobic workouts. Accumulatively, your body burns up many, many more calories during and after high intensity cardio exercises than lower intensity ones.
You can inject high intensity exercises into your cardio workout by introducing some interval training. You can walk briskly for 5 minutes, then breaking into a jog for another 5 minutes. Then walking briskly again until your breath has stabilised and then sprint for a minute before walking again for another minute. From this point, alternate between a sprint and a walk, a minute each and do this for the next 15 minutes and you are done.
Do this for 5 days a week and before long, you will be steadily losing unwanted body fat and weight healthily and naturally.
One thing we don't want to happen is for us to loose interest in our exercise routine, because we all know if that happens we just throw in the towel and don't exercise at all. So... don't forget you can always do something fun to get fit like attending Zumba Fitness fun classes at least twice a week. Gauranteed to leave with a feeling of invigoration, motivation and best of all a big smile.
See you there
Zumba Fitness Fun Team

Zumba Peanut Buttery Banana Soy Smoothie

Zumba Peanut Buttery Banana Soy Smoothie
One Serving
1 cup soy milk (plain or vanilla)
1 heaped Tbsp coffee substitute
1 medium banana - quartered
1 tablespoon peanut butter
Honey or Agave to taste
3 ice cubes
Add all ingredients to the blender and blend until smooth.
Nutritional Facts Per Serving: Calories Calories 177 Total Fat 1 grams Saturated Fat 0 grams Cholesterol 0 milligrams Sodium 85 milligrams Total Carbohydrate 40 grams Dietary Fiber 3 grams Sugars 11 grams Protein 3 grams

Zumba Low Carb Tofuttie Strawberry

Zumba Low Carb Tofuttie Strawberry Smoothie
One Serving
1 cup frozen strawberries
1/4 cup soft tofu
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon organic sugar or honey
1 20-gram scoop of low-carb whey powder
Put all ingredients in the blender and mix until smooth.
Nutritional Facts Per Serving: Calories 155 Total Fat 0 grams Saturated Fat 0 grams Cholesterol 5 milligrams Sodium 125 milligrams Total Carbohydrate 32 grams Dietary Fiber 3 grams Sugars 28 grams Protein 10 grams