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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii - More than 20 women shook their hips and showed off their dance moves at the weekly Zumba exercise class at the Health & Fitness Center here, Nov. 5. An intricate array of ...

It’s the latest Latin dance-inspired fitness workout and at Germantown’s Center in the Park, it’s caught on among older adults who tie their sneakers tight, retrieve their water bottles and shake, ...

If it wasn’t for the movie “Grease,” a dot-com failure, a mother’s advice, nearly running out of money, a key change in a business model and a boost by the celebrity Pitbull and his pals, one of the ...

Are you already a big Zumba Fitness person? Then you’re invited to Zumba Fitness: World Party. If not, you’re better off signing up for some classes first. World Party brings the dance-inspired ...