Zumba was born in Colombia in the 1990s, quite by accident. A fitness instructor forgot to bring his usual workout music to class, so he grabbed some Latin albums from his car, ditched the constraints ...

Fargo-Moorhead fitness outlets are feeling a serious shake down. Zumba, the latest international workout craze, has taken hold of F-M, and sessions of the exercise are giving participants a workout ...

Zumba is a dance-based cardio workout powered by Latin and World music. The brainchild of a Colombian fitness trainer, this upbeat brand of group exercise burst onto the American fitness scene back in ...

Miami - Alberto Perez started out as a street performer and then an aerobics teacher in Colombia, making extra cash on the side teaching the wives of businessmen how to dance in nightclubs in his ...

It's a no-brainer: dance-fitness craze Zumba is good exercise. Try not working up a sweat mimicking the up-tempo jigging of a Zumba instructor, successfully or otherwise, and so much the better if you ...

Ten million people is one awfully big dance party. Since fall, the BRAVO Center dance studio in Baraboo has been contributing to the spotlight on the international dance party-inspired fitness craze ...

Few exercise classes have had Zumba's staying power. This dance workout — which looks and sounds more like a dance party — remains a popular go-to for fitness-minded folks around the world. Indeed, ...

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It’s Friday evening at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in downtown Los Angeles, but there’s no Zen quiet here. Instead, Latin-inflected hip-hop thumps from a basement room, where about 30 men and ...

Feeling It: Zumba instructors are both the primary customers and the core product of Zumba Fitness. Some 8,000 of them paid at least $399 each to attend an instructors’ convention in Orlando in August ...