Party Your Way to Fitness with Zumba!

Zumba is the latest dance / aerobic exercise craze that is catching on all over the world has now landed in Coronado.panama fitness, panama beach fitness, panama health, sunwave fitness, natasha lesson cooke Zumba is a dance fitness program created by dancer and choreographer Alberto "Beto" Perez in Colombia during the 1990s. It is the only Latin-inspired dance-fitness program that blends red-hot international music, created by Grammy Award-winning producers, and contagious dance steps to form a "fitness-party" that is downright addictive. Since its inception in 2001, the Zumba program has grown to become the world's largest – and most successful – dance-fitness program with more than 12 million people of all shapes, sizes and ages taking weekly Zumba classes in over 110,000 locations across more than 125 countries. Coronado Bay's Solarium is the latest location to host Zumba classes. Fitness Instructor Natasha Leeson-Cooke, who recently moved to Playa Blanca from Toronto, Canada has brought the dance-exercise craze to the beaches. At Zumba, Natasha has people gyrating their hips and stepping to  meringue and salsa beats while remembering to perform PARCS, which is the basis of proper posture that runs through every fitness class that Natasha teaches.

Zumba is not only an addictive and fun way of getting a cardiovascular workout, but it also improves memory by making us recall steps, routines and dance patterns giving the brain a workout as well.

Many people are afraid of coming to a fitness class, because they are not in shape, or may not be as agile as others. To this, Natasha says, "Everyone works at their own pace. It's about having fun and getting a work out at your own level". For some that means small step-tapping for others it means high knees.

Natasha is teaching Zumba at Coronado Bay's Solarium every  Tuesday at 9am. Take the elevator from the lobby down to the 1st floor pool deck. Zumba is under the bohio, so you can step to the beat even if it's raining out.

Natasha's company Sun Wave Fitness runs several exercise classes along the beaches. Check the calendar at Playacomunity.Com to see what is going on and where.

All classes are $10, or you can buy a Class Card for $100, which gives you one class free.

See you at Zumba!!!