{"id":33354,"date":"2010-10-29T10:41:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=33354"},"modified":"2010-10-29T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:42:10","slug":"billy-blanks-tae-bo-spawns-cardio-kickboxing-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/billy-blanks-tae-bo-spawns-cardio-kickboxing-craze\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Blanks&#8217; Tae Bo Spawns Cardio-Kickboxing Craze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33852\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Billy Blanks' Tae Bo Spawns Cardio Kickboxing Craze\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/billy-blanks-tae-bo-spawns-cardio-kickboxing-craze\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33852\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33852\" title=\"billy blanks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/billy-blanks-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/billy-blanks-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/billy-blanks.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tae Bo creator Billy Blanks<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tae Bo is an aerobic exercise routine created by Billy Blanks in 1976, but didn&#8217;t really become\u00a0popular\u00a0until the 1990s. During the 1990s, it was the first successful\u00a0&#8220;cardio-boxing&#8221; routine\u00a0to take over commercially with over 1.5 million copies of Blanks&#8217; DVDs sold.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of dance and mixture of martial arts and boxing took the world by surprise. After the craze of <a title=\"Tae Bo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/tae-bo\/\" target=\"_self\">Tae Bo<\/a>; health and fitness clubs started offering <a title=\"most popular fitness classes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/most-popular-fitness-classes\/\" target=\"_self\">cardio-kickboxing classes<\/a> (similar to Tae Bo)\u00a0to their members. Cardio kickboxing has\u00a0been extremely popular ever since, because with its mix of intense cardio and fun moves, it&#8217;s hard not to see results.\u00a0 An hour of Tae Bo or cardio-kickboxing\u00a0will burn between 600 and 800 calories.\u00a0Check below\u00a0to\u00a0see the benefits of these two\u00a0aerobic programs. \u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Is Billy Blanks?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Billy Blanks\u00a0is a\u00a0taekwondo\u00a0practitioner and fitness guru\u00a0from Pennsylvania. He was born with an anomaly in his hips that impaired his movements. Doctors and coaches\u00a0believed that he would not accomplish much, but not to be discouraged, Billy decided to try <a title=\"The Benefits of Martial Arts for Kids\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/the-benefits-of-martial-arts-for-kids\/\" target=\"_self\">martial arts<\/a> at the age of 11. The discipline of\u00a0\u00a0martial arts transformed Billy&#8217;s body and he won five Amateur Athletic\u00a0Union Championships.\u00a0Later in his\u00a0career,\u00a0he led the U.S. karate team to thirty-six gold medals and was inducted into the Karate Hall of Fame. After moving to Massachusetts, he\u00a0ran a\u00a0karate studio and from there his Tae Bo phenomenon flourished.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of Tae Bo And Cardio-Kickboxing:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves cardiovascular endurance<\/li>\n<li>Improves speed and agility<\/li>\n<li>Reduces body fat<\/li>\n<li>Improves stamina<\/li>\n<li> Improve core strength and endurance<\/li>\n<li>Tones arms<\/li>\n<li>Improves mental strength<\/li>\n<li>Improves self-esteem and self-confidence<\/li>\n<li>Fun and enjoyable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tae Bo is an aerobic exercise routine created by Billy Blanks in 1976, but didn&#8217;t really become\u00a0popular\u00a0until the 1990s. During the 1990s, it was the first successful\u00a0&#8220;cardio-boxing&#8221; routine\u00a0to take over commercially with over 1.5 million copies of Blanks&#8217; DVDs sold. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/billy-blanks-tae-bo-spawns-cardio-kickboxing-craze\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5361,394,5360,5363,5159,3505,922,933,5359],"class_list":["post-33354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-billy-blanks","tag-cardio","tag-cardio-kickboxing","tag-core-strength-and-endurance","tag-endurance","tag-karate","tag-martial-arts","tag-self-esteem","tag-tae-bo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33354"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33377,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354\/revisions\/33377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}