I am so into Zumba :) That makes my Tuesday extra-special as I look forward for our weekly session. The fast rhtyhm, the exhilarating footworks, the sweat and the calories rolled into one.
Ever wonder how Zumba started? Well it started in mid 90s when a fitness instructor Beto Perez, a native Columbia, was teaching an aerobics class but forgot his normal music, so instead improvised with his own personal tapes he had in his bags. This was the music he had grown up with of salsa and meringue.
Beto moved to the United States and started teaching Zumba classes in Miami Florida. The students loved it and these classes soon became extremely popular with news of the Zumba classes spreading quickly via word of mouth. Soon after via a students mother Beto met her son Alberto Perlman and his fellow entrepreneur Alberto Aghion.The three Albertos agreed to work together to establish the Zumba Fitness company, registering the trademark for the word Zumba® and putting in place a plan to establish it as a global brand. There you go - that started that craze that's rocking folks around the globe. 
But is it just for dancers? I don't think so. Being a cardio exercise will not require a seamless pairs of dancing feet, so long as you are able to identify right and left then it should be just fine. You have to move the groove as if no one is watching so you can take full advantage of the cardio and enjoy the fun!!
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