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Zumba Fitness Nottingham – Come Join the Party!

Published July 31, 2012 | By admin

This is a demo video of a Zumba class held at the Barkersfield & Neighbourhood Community Centre, Sneinton Nottingham NG3 7DN Classes are taken by Marie a fully qualified ZIN instructor.

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Zumba Fitness Gets Infrastructure in Shape with Opscode

Published July 31, 2012 | By admin

SEATTLE, July 30, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Zumba Fitness, the world’s largest – and most successful – dance-fitness program, has deployed Opscode Hosted Chef™ to automate its entire cloud infrastructure, from development environments to change control processes in its Amazon EC2 and Rackspace clouds. With Hosted Chef, Zumba has eliminated manual infrastructure management, saving significant amounts of time and money, while ensuring resource consistency and reliability for its high-traffic website.

“In many ways, our website is the hub of our business, with everything you see in the fitness parties first going through the web, from class schedules to our online store,” said Douglas Jarquin, Technical Operations Manager, Zumba Fitness. “Hosted Chef ensures our website operates effectively around the clock by eliminating the risk of human error and ensuring resource consistency all the way up the compute stack.”

Since its inception in 2001, the Zumba program has grown its dance-fitness program to more than 12 million people taking weekly Zumba classes in over 110,000 locations across more than 125 countries. To support its vibrant user base, Zumba’s website provides everything from class schedules and locations to an online store and video archive. Powering its website are primary Amazon EC2 servers and failover Rackspace servers, providing a reliable and easily scalable infrastructure for Zumba’s online operations.

Customer Benefits:

  • Maximum Resource Consistency: Hosted Chef enables Zumba to automate everything from configuration management to application deployment, ensuring its website’s resources are always available and operational.  
  • Secure Change Control: Using Hosted Chef to automate its cloud-based environments provides Zumba with historical documentation of all changes to any resource, enabling Zumba to quickly and easily acquire information on current configurations and maintain a tightly controlled change process.  
  • Time and Cost Savings: By automating a wide range of operations that were previously done by hand, Hosted Chef has enabled Zumba’s IT operations team to accomplish in days what used to take weeks, freeing them to focus on higher-order and more strategic initiatives.

Using Amazon EC2 as its primary infrastructure and Rackspace for failover, Zumba needed an automation engine capable of managing the complexity and constant change inherent in using large-scale IT infrastructure in the cloud. Leveraging Hosted Chef, Zumba has automated every component of both its Amazon and Rackspace clouds, ensuring its development, staging and production environments operate seamlessly in bringing new applications and services to Zumba’s website.

“Zumba is a great example of how businesses of all kinds are leveraging the economies of the cloud to rapidly expand their business,” said Adam Jacob, Chief Customer Officer, Opscode. “By pairing its cloud infrastructure with Hosted Chef and a DevOps mentality, Zumba now has the business agility and resource consistency to continue growing its customer base.”

About Opscode Opscode is the leader in cloud infrastructure automation. Opscode helps companies of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale easily and predictably; can be quickly rebuilt in any environment; and save developers and systems engineers time and money. Opscode’s team is comprised of web infrastructure experts responsible for building and operating some of the world’s largest websites and cloud computing platforms. More information can be found at www.opscode.com.

Press Contact: Lucas Welch lucas@opscode.com  206-745-0000

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Zumba gets Austin residents on the floor for National Dance Day – Post

Published July 31, 2012 | By admin

There was a lot of grooving and sweating Saturday morning at the YMCA in Austin.

As part of National Dance Day, the Austin Y held several Zumba sessions to promote fitness through dancing.

“It’s based off of Dizzy Feet,” said Austin YMCA fitness director Kristi Stasi. “The last three years, they’ve picked a song and choreographed a dance to it.”

The Dizzy Feet Foundation was started in 2009 to support, improve and increase access to dance education in the United States. The National Dance Day event, held in conjunction with the television program “So You Think You Can Dance,” is one of the group’s endeavors. This was the first year the Austin Y has participated in National Dance Day, and part of it had to do with the choice of music.

For the uninitiated, Zumba is a Latin-dance inspired fitness program that was created about 2001. It blends international music with dance steps in the hopes of creating a fun exercise experience.

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Bust a move, not a bone: Preventing Zumba injuries

Published July 31, 2012 | By admin

Reuters file

Alberto Perez, center, founder of Zumba Fitness, performs on stage during a meeting in Rimini, central Italy on May 11. Doctors around the country say they’re seeing an uptick in Zumba-related injuries, no doubt because more people are trying the hugely popular fitness classes.

Zumba may be a great way to “party yourself into shape,” but according to a number of doctors, the wildly popular dance-fitness program may also be a good way to party yourself into pain.

“I’m seeing a number of injuries,” says Dr. Orly Avitzur, a neurologist and Consumer Reports medical adviser who recently wrote that she’s seen an uptick in Zumba-related injuries, which can range from ankle sprains, shin splints, heel spurs and plantar fasciitis to hip bursitis, muscle strains and knee problems requiring surgery.

“There’s so much side-to-side movement that you really need to synchronize your hips, your knees, your feet and your ankles so they’re going in the same direction,” says the neurologist. “If you move in one direction and the joint doesn’t go with you in that direction, it’s a setup for injury.”

Connie Young, a 54-year-old ob/gyn from Briarcliff Manor, New York, says she took a couple of Zumba classes two months ago, thinking it would be good cross-training for her running, biking and weightlifting.

“I was a novice and at the end of the second class, I had a twinge in my lower back,” she says. “Two days later, I was walking around like a duck.”

Young, who suffered a back strain, says she’s fine now, but recalls that before her first class, she heard other students talking about injuries.

“The class was primarily middle-aged women like myself and it seemed like everybody in the class had suffered some kind of injury due to Zumba,” she says.

An email survey issued by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons for this post got similar responses from doctors, who say they’re regularly seeing Zumba students for ankle sprains, ankle fractures, torn meniscus, overuse injuries and more.

“I’d say we get at least one to two Zumba-related injuries a week,” says Dr. Stephanie Siegrist, an orthopedic surgeon from Rochester, New York. “Zumba in and of itself is not a bad thing. Everybody who’s tried it loves it and wants to go back and we certainly encourage that in our patients. But several times a week. I tell patients, ‘We get a lot of business from Zumba.’”

Avitzur, who takes Zumba three or four times a week, says those new to the high intensity dance-fitness class are particularly susceptible.

“Newbies are at risk because it’s a fitness of last resort,” she says. “I think a lot of people who are older will try it even if they hate exercise because their friends tell them how much fun it is. And often those people are out of shape and they try to keep up with the class when they haven’t prepared for that.”

But newbies aren’t the only ones getting hurt.

Freyda Schneider, a 45-year-old children’s theatre producer who’d taken Zumba classes all last summer, suffered a meniscus tear, a common knee joint injury, during a Zumba class this May and ended up having to have surgery.  

“I noticed during class that I was in a little bit of pain but kept going,” she says. “I was so busy dancing and sweating, I didn’t pay attention. Later in the day, I realized I should have stopped.”

Avitzur says wearing the right shoes and avoiding the wrong floors, such as carpeting or hard tile, will help you avoid Zumba injuries.

“Women slip on any sneaker that they think will match their outfit and that’s not a good idea,” she says. “I use dance shoes because they pivot really easily and there’s a lot of pivoting in Zumba.”

Lane McCormick, a 23-year-old media account manager and part-time fitness instructor from Seattle says she’s never seen or heard of a Zumba injury in any of the classes she’s taken or taught, however, she does agree with Avitzur about the importance of good shoes.

“When I first started taking Zumba, I wore my running shoes and when turning or pivoting while in running shoes — or any shoes with treads — you can feel like your feet are stuck to the floor,” she says. “If you push too hard, I can definitely see how injuries could occur.”

Crowded classes are equally problematic, says Avitzur.

“I’ve been in classes that are way too congested and people run into each other or hit each other with a flailing arm or leg,” says Avitzur. “I think those are unsafe. I’ll walk out of a class if it’s too congested.”

Also key: working with an experienced instructor who offers a choice of high intensity or low-impact moves.

Dave Cook, an ER physician from Charleston, South Carolina, says he’s seen four or five people for injuries stemming from Zumba or video exercise programs like Insanity or P90X in the last six months.

“Any time you have a new sports exercise craze you tend to see more injuries,” he says of the uptick in injuries. “People have a clear understanding of basic forms of exercise, but with some of these new forms, you don’t necessarily see that.”

Still, the Latin-inspired dance-fitness class has a fiercely loyal following, even among the dancing wounded.

“I did Zumba for a summer at a different location and was never injured,” says Schneider, who just got off her crutches following surgery. “It was a good, fun energetic workout. Despite the fact I was injured during class, I am not anti-Zumba.” 

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Gastric Bypass Zumba Video #1

Published July 31, 2012 | By admin

This is my first Zumba video. You might here me talking about “moves i used in my first video” but i havent finished that one yet so this has become the 1st. Step by step instructions on a basic Zumba routine i created. If you want to skip me talking and go straight to the warm up, go to 1 minute 30secs into the video. If you want to skip the step by step instructions, go to 16 mins 15secs into video. Enjoy! No copyright infringement intended. Just having fun exercising and losing weight! warm up song is “never say never” by Justin Bieber workout song is “calling all the monsters” by China Anne McClain

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Zumba Fitness -Last Christmas

Published July 30, 2012 | By admin

Easy steps for the song: Last Christmas by Cascada ^^

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Zumba: a simple exercise dance routine inspiring a lake area cancer victim – KPLC

Published July 30, 2012 | By admin

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Zumba Fitness Gets Infrastructure in Shape with Opscode

Published July 30, 2012 | By admin

SEATTLE, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Opscode®, the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that Zumba Fitness, the world’s largest – and most successful – dance-fitness program, has deployed Opscode Hosted Chef(TM) to automate its entire cloud infrastructure, from development environments to change control processes in its Amazon EC2 and Rackspace clouds. With Hosted Chef, Zumba has eliminated manual infrastructure management, saving significant amounts of time and money, while ensuring resource consistency and reliability for its high-traffic website.

“In many ways, our website is the hub of our business, with everything you see in the fitness parties first going through the web, from class schedules to our online store,” said Douglas Jarquin, Technical Operations Manager, Zumba Fitness. “Hosted Chef ensures our website operates effectively around the clock by eliminating the risk of human error and ensuring resource consistency all the way up the compute stack.”

Since its inception in 2001, the Zumba program has grown its dance-fitness program to more than 12 million people taking weekly Zumba classes in over 110,000 locations across more than 125 countries. To support its vibrant user base, Zumba’s website provides everything from class schedules and locations to an online store and video archive. Powering its website are primary Amazon EC2 servers and failover Rackspace servers, providing a reliable and easily scalable infrastructure for Zumba’s online operations.

Customer Benefits:

Maximum Resource Consistency: Hosted Chef enables Zumba to automate everything from configuration management to application deployment, ensuring its website’s resources are always available and operational.

Secure Change Control: Using Hosted Chef to automate its cloud-based environments provides Zumba with historical documentation of all changes to any resource, enabling Zumba to quickly and easily acquire information on current configurations and maintain a tightly controlled change process.

Time and Cost Savings: By automating a wide range of operations that were previously done by hand, Hosted Chef has enabled Zumba’s IT operations team to accomplish in days what used to take weeks, freeing them to focus on higher-order and more strategic initiatives.

Using Amazon EC2 as its primary infrastructure and Rackspace for failover, Zumba needed an automation engine capable of managing the complexity and constant change inherent in using large-scale IT infrastructure in the cloud. Leveraging Hosted Chef, Zumba has automated every component of both its Amazon and Rackspace clouds, ensuring its development, staging and production environments operate seamlessly in bringing new applications and services to Zumba’s website.

“Zumba is a great example of how businesses of all kinds are leveraging the economies of the cloud to rapidly expand their business,” said Adam Jacob, Chief Customer Officer, Opscode. “By pairing its cloud infrastructure with Hosted Chef and a DevOps mentality, Zumba now has the business agility and resource consistency to continue growing its customer base.”

About OpscodeOpscode is the leader in cloud infrastructure automation. Opscode helps companies of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale easily and predictably; can be quickly rebuilt in any environment; and save developers and systems engineers time and money. Opscode’s team is comprised of web infrastructure experts responsible for building and operating some of the world’s largest websites and cloud computing platforms. More information can be found at
www.opscode.com .

Press Contact:Lucas Welchlucas@opscode.com 206-745-0000

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Where’s the Zumba Fever? (Fitness Guinea Pig)

Published July 30, 2012 | By admin

Jenna Morasca is testing Zumba for Wii this week and so far she’s not impressed with the degree of intensity. Watch day 3 to hear her thoughts. Subscribe to Everyday Health: www.youtube.com For more videos, visit the Everyday Health Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com Check us out: www.everydayhealth.com Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter at: twitter.com We’re on Pinterest: pinterest.com …And Tumblr! everydayhealth.tumblr.com About Fitness Guinea Pig: On Fitness Guinea Pig, we enlist people from all walks of life, be it celebrities, comedians, actors, or your average everyday joe, to test today’s most popular workouts, weight loss programs and fitness equipment. We’ll put them through the rigors of p90x, Zumba, and all of the latest trends in physical fitness. See these fitness guinea pigs in action and hear their results to decide which one is right (or not) for you! Jenna Morasca Jenna Morasca, a co-host of the television series, Everyday Health, which airs weekly on ABC stations, has worked as a model, actress and television correspondent and was the winner of the reality show, Survivor: Amazon in 2003. Jenna’s first-hand experiences as caregiver and inspirational partner during co-host and boyfriend Ethan Zohn’s personal battle against CD 20+ Hodgkin’s Lymphoma allows her to relate authentically with the show’s subjects: extraordinary people whose stories inspire all of us to make a difference and celebrate the power of one person’s courage …

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Zumba Fitness Crazy African Dance ” Mawa Sillah “

Published July 29, 2012 | By admin

Korean Zumba Fitness Instructor Ock-kyung’s Demonstration for African Dance.the long hair is important for the HOT African Dance.^^ I love Beto’s choreography. i think he is a genius. i corrected his choreo a little bit for my zumba class. the music is so powerful and beautiful!!^^

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