Zumba was born in Colombia in the 1990s, quite by accident. A fitness instructor forgot to bring his usual workout music to ...

If you're not so much the boot camp, instructor-screaming-in-your-face, Olympic-lifting type and instead prefer laughing and a bit more light-heartedness when you workout, you need to try Zumba Step.

THE GIST: Zumba® steps it up a gear. Literally. It’s the class you know and love: same infectious Latino rhythms, same Shakira impression in the mirrors (admit it), but incorporating elements of old ...

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 ...

Zumba is not just for dancers anymore. Maria Howard is a group exercise instructor for the YMCA of Greater Richmond and the University of Richmond Weinstein Center. Her column runs every other week in ...

They can’t help it. Students in Julia LaTorre’s Friday morning Zumba class can’t keep the corners of their mouths from twitching upward. Up one flight of stairs and through the slim side door, cold ...

Is it possible to move your waistline to the bassline in Zumba class and whittle away your midsection? Yes! Zumba has been around since the days of Saved by the Bell. You're probably familiar with ...

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 ...

Instructor: Danae Higdon, of Longmont, the owner of Viscaria Fitness. Higdon, who moved here from Honduras 16 years ago, got her Zumba certification in 2010. She couldn’t find a place where she wanted ...