It’s Friday evening at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in downtown Los Angeles, but there’s no Zen quiet here. Instead, Latin-inflected hip-hop thumps from a basement room, where about 30 men and ...
Zumba is a dance-based cardio workout powered by Latin and World music. The brainchild of a Colombian fitness trainer, this upbeat brand of group exercise burst onto the American fitness scene back in ...
Zumba was born in Colombia in the 1990s, quite by accident. A fitness instructor forgot to bring his usual workout music to class, so he grabbed some Latin albums from his car, ditched the constraints ...