Instructor: Anastasia Benson, of Lafayette. She has been teaching for 12 years. She started teaching water aerobics after her teacher left and asked her to take over the class. Later, she got ...

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 ...

Zumba can support weight loss by raising your daily calorie burn, which helps you create a calorie deficit. You may burn about 300 to 900 calories in an hour. A small 2012 study found participants ...

The wet season doesn’t have to slow down fitness goals, with Cairns residents able to splash their way into shape through ...

In her forties, Michele Perron didn't realize how stiff she had gotten until she went to her first Zumba class. The Zumba approach features dance movements to Latin rhythms, including a lot of hip ...

For many people, just making their way to the gym can be an arduous task. And once they get there, it can be difficult to know which machines are right for them and what type of weights to use. There ...

It’s as if the animated dancers in the movie “Madagascar” meet their wild, hip and funky Latin cousins. It’s Zumba, baby! At lunchtime for 40 minutes each week, a few of the straight-laced downtown ...

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 ...