Take It Off Today: Weight Loss in America

Source: The Today Show

What is Zumba?

A Fun Workout

Source: Cosmopolitan

Dragging yourself to the gym to sweat on the treadmill on your day off just isn't fun.

Samba Lines at the Gym

Source: New York Times

With a name like Zumba, the exercise class defined by its Latin rhythms and party atmosphere was not exactly an easy sell at first. "Zumba?" people would ask. It connotes buzzing like a bee, or going fast, in Spanish. Worse, it could have run the course of any other fitness fad: Word of mouth excitement. Feverish following. Media attention. Hardcore fans. Then on to the next fitness craze.

Burn 500 calories an hour with the hot new workout!

Source: Woman's world

Take salsa, cha cha, samba, tango, merengue, add hints of flamenco, calypso, hip-hop and belly dancing, put in a workout routine and you have Zumba!

Zumba zooms to the top of the exercise world

Source: CNN.com

"We turned exercise into a party," Perlman declared. "Zumba broke some of the rules of fitness. We used music in the original form instead of using step counts."

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