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 ...

In her forties, Michele Perron didn't realize how stiff she had gotten until she went to her first Zumba class. The Zumba approach features dance movements to Latin rhythms, including a lot of hip ...

Ever been to a zumba class? If you haven't, then you should know that a zumba class, when done right, looks something like this. You're in a room full of people, loud Latin beats playing, the ...

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 ...