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    Zumba was created in the 1990s by Alberto Perez as a dance fitness class that incorporated international dance styles set to Latin music. It grew popular in the early 2000s when Perez began teaching in Miami and partnered with others to spread Zumba classes worldwide. Zumba is designed as a low-impact, high-intensity workout that burns calories efficiently while being fun and suitable for all fitness levels.

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    If you’ve been to the gym at all in the past several years, you’ve probably seen or taken a Zumba class. (We’ve
    got lots of them here at WFCC (https://womens tnessclubs.com/classes.php?class_cat_id=5).) This Colombian
    exercise-dance style incorporates international in uences including Caribbean dance styles like soca, South
    American dances like meringue and samba, Indian styles from Bollywood lms, and even martial arts (it’s
    similar to the Brazilian martial art/dance capoeira (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capoeira)in that way). Zumba
    is also one of the most fun, and best fat-burning, workout classes out there. Over 12 million people all over
    the world take Zumba classes every year.

    But where did Zumba come from, and how did it get so popular?

    Zumba was created by the choreographer and tness instructor Alberto “Beto” Perez in the mid-1990s.
    According to the o cial Zumba website (http://www.zumba.com), it was a result of a “happy accident” – Beto
    was on his way to teach an aerobics class and realized he’d forgotten his music. He didn’t have time to
    double back and get it, so he improvised, using the salsa and merengue tapes he happened to have on him.
    Instead of strict rep-counting, he ended up improvising a class that was the perfect mix of dance and
    aerobics that kept his students moving and having fun!

    In 2001, he started teaching his hybrid dance/aerobics in Miami, and through another “happy accident”, he
    got in touch with two other Albertos – Alberto Perlman and Alberto Aghion. Together, they called the new
    style “Zumba”, a word that doesn’t have any speci c meaning but has become synonymous with this great
    combination of tness and fun, and brought it to tness centres all over the world.

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