Markham Heid is a contributor at TIME. He is the author of The Habit Trap, due out in early 2027. Bethan Mooney for TIME Zumba was born in Colombia in the 1990s, quite by accident. A fitness ...

Bringing the Zumba exercise dance craze to Bellaire at Barbara King Dance Company, 5410 Bellaire Blvd., Karen Franklin is a high-energy fitness instructor. What's more amazing is that she continued to ...

A new fitness craze has made its way from the coastal areas of the nation to the heartland. And since January, more and more people from Enid and the area are finding their way to the Denny Price YMCA ...

Zumba is becoming all the rage in exercise classes, in Central New York and throughout the country. Watch a video at the Hartford Courant web site. You can also read about Weighing In columnist Bunny ...

Fargo-Moorhead fitness outlets are feeling a serious shake down. Zumba, the latest international workout craze, has taken hold of F-M, and sessions of the exercise are giving participants a workout ...

BELLA VISTA -- Zumba teacher Dina Lombardo says her students often tell her that a 50-minute exercise class goes by too fast -- she tells them that's because Zumba is fun. She teaches four classes a ...

Like gravity, magnetism or time, my inability to dance is a profound, immutable force. Even the most basic of patterns leaves me floundering like a fool. Framing it as a fitness activity doesn't help.

When Bob Zakes messed up his shoulder playing racquetball, he needed to come up with a new workout plan. He could have chosen a spin, body flex or yoga class at Salem Family YMCA, but he picked Zumba ...

It’s as if the animated dancers in the movie “Madagascar” meet their wild, hip and funky Latin cousins. It’s Zumba, baby! At lunchtime for 40 minutes each week, a few of the straight-laced downtown ...

Ambassador-level Girl Scout Marisa Hann wanted to come up with an interesting way to earn her Gold Award -- something that would be fun but also meaningful. So, the Greenwich High junior decided to ...