The story of zumba apparently started with an accident. Back in the 1990s in Colombia, a dancer and choreographer named Alberto Perez was teaching an aerobics class but forgot his regular music. So what he did was to just search his backpack for music, and pulled out tapes of salsa and merengue. The rest is history.
Zumba does not seem to mean anything in particular, it is simply a brand name. This fitness trend has become so popular globally. Most sports clubs offer free classes to its members. Brazilian pop singer Claudia Leitte has become the international ambassador to Zumba fitness.
Because I love to dance, zumba really works for me as an exercise routine. It's like dancing your way to a healthy habit, sweating and working out. The choreography involes hiphop, soca, samba, salsa, merengue and mambo, which includes squats and lunges.
According to one report, there are now approximately 15 million people taking regular zumba classes in over 200,000 locations across 180 countries.
Over at the New York Sports Club in Bayonne, where I take my daily classes, almost all my zumba instructors are from Latin America, all of them with awesome energetic moves.
It used to be that swimming is my favorite sport, still is, but zumba seem to have taken me over!
Since I started doing zumba regularly about 2 years ago, my blood pressure has normalized. Hope to keep it that way..
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