Thank you very much to all of you who came to our Winter Zumba Open House which took place in our beautiful studio located at 3451 Saint Laurent St! It turned out to be one of the most amazing Zumba classes ever with record attendance!!!

We recommend Zumba three times per week with a nutritional diet. Start the new year with a healthy lifestyle!. Ditch the workout, join the parTy!

"I have to do what with my hips?"

That was my reaction as my first Zumba class started last month. In my latest bid to find a new workout routine, I stumbled upon something called Zumba while at the Mansfield Athletic Club in Pointe Claire. Zumba is a challenging cardio workout using easy-to-learn Latin dance steps. It moves from salsa, samba, merengue and reggaeton, among other dances, into a one-hour cardio bonanza...

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Aerobics never really disappeared. It simply took a long vacation, picked up some sexy Latin dance moves and returned as Zumba. Turns out, Zumba is one of the most popular exercises in the United States. Canadian are just now catching up...The moves – a mix of styles that references merengue, cha cha, hip hop, belly dancing and rock 'n' roll – proved easy enough to learn. They were just switched, combined and recombined with head-scratching speed.

And don't expect a break. The whole point is to keep heart rates elevated through crazy moves and thumping beats. Instructors are encouraged to play 80-per-cent official Zumba songs, which represent a global mash-up of genres and often have a common refrain of, what else, “Zumba!”

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Zumba: Dancing with the stars...Zumba is a Latin-dance-inspired aerobic exercise class that is all about having fun, says originator Beto Perez – more fun because you're not counting steps or having to execute precise moves.

Benefits:
• Easy to follow
• A feel-good workout for anyone who likes to dance
• Burns an impressive 500 to 1,000 calories an hour
• Training this way (fast/slow intervals) builds endurance. During the slower dance sequences your body can recover – so you can push yourself again when a faster song comes on
• Tones and sculpts the body
• Low impact
• You may become more relaxed when dancing at parties

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