Tae Bo is a new exercise combining aerobics, self-defense, martial arts, dance, kickboxing, and yoga. Created by Billy Blanks, it builds muscle, burns fat, increases coordination, and is engaging and fun. It originated from Blanks’ desire to create a workout that would hold women’s focus and boost their confidence. Tae Bo involves high kicks, punches, stretches, and steady movements, and can be done for an hour or as little as twenty minutes, three times a week. It strengthens the entire body, tones muscles, burns calories, increases flexibility, and results in weight loss.
A relatively new cardiovascular exercise that combines aerobics, self-defense, martial arts, dance, kickboxing, and yoga has been created called Tae Bo. One person, Billy Blanks, created this unusual and exciting fitness plan to fix the problems he saw with more traditional workouts. Tae Bo builds muscle, burns fat, increases coordination, and promises to be engaging and fun.
Well trained in Tae Kwon Do and Western aerobics, Billy Blanks noticed that very few women were training in any of the martial arts classes he attended in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Women freely participated in certain types of fitness, and I wanted to create a workout that would hold their focus and boost their confidence.
When he popularized exercise in the late ’80s, Blanks borrowed from different types of exercises to create an intense workout that would turn to music, raise your heart rate, and never get bored. He took kicks from kickboxing, choreography and electronic music from hip hop, forceful punches from self-defense and martial arts, stretches and grips from yoga, and steady movements from aerobics. When he invented Tae Bo, he wanted to involve more people in taking responsibility for their health.
Tae Bo’s name seems to have several origins. Some people believe that “tae” means leg, which explains the importance of high kicks, and “bo” is short for boxing, to account for punches to the arm. Others claim that the name was a catchy phrase said to mean Total Awareness, Excellent Bodily Obedience, which communicates the need for thoughtful and intentional practice of the exercise.
With music, Tae Bo seems like a lot of fun and a lot of work. A normal routine lasts a solid hour, although even twenty minutes, three times a week, is an adequate regimen. The exercises strengthen the entire body, tone muscles, burn calories, increase flexibility and result in weight loss. Official Tae Bo session leaders are trained at the Blanks center and sent to oversee their own groups. For individual training, one can purchase official videos that teach the routines.
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