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 ...

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 ...

Toss out the legwarmers and sweatbands. Zumba is making over (and taking over) the world of group exercise. Driven by a philosophy of fun, Zumba combines fitness with aspects of dance, all done to the ...

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 ...