Michelle Cabral was ready for another night of fun with her friends.
But she wasn’t at a club. She was inside a school cafeteria in a quiet neighborhood preparing to teach an exercise class.
“It’s almost like you’re going out with a bunch of friends to go clubbing, but you don’t have to worry about the cigarette smoke or the crazy men coming over to you,” Cabral joked.
If all this sounds a bit odd, you don’t Read the rest of this entry »

Kries draws on her background as a professional dancer who studied at
the American School of Ballet and danced with several top ballet
companies to create the “JENNIFER KRIES: HOT BODY! DANCE” DVD
($19.99). In this program there are three progressive 20-minute
segments for beginners, intermediate and advanced levels that include
a warm-up and invigorating jazz and Latin dance sequences. These are
the actual warm-ups and dance combinations regularly Read the rest of this entry »

Walk, Dodgeball tourney, dinner/dance highlight the ‘Family Fitness Challenge’
AREA — Madison and Florham Park will celebrate Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, with a day-long family fitness challenge at Bayley Ellard High School and a dinner and dance at the Florham Park Ridgedale Middle School. The events are sponsored by the mayors’ wellness committees.
The day gets off to a fast start with several activities scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., including Read the rest of this entry »

Belly dance your way to fitness: ‘It’s nice for women … (of) any size or shape’
PORTAGE — Imagine it’s 6:15 p.m. on a Thursday and you’re on the way to belly-dancing class.
You enter the Portage Public Schools Administration Building, climb the stairs to the second floor, walk past the classrooms full of night-school students, hang up your coat and head to the dance studio to warm up.
You grab a bottle of water and line up with 15 women ranging Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve become bored with body sculpting and your weekly spin class, so you’ve shimmied your way into every Zumba, bellydancing, stripaerobix, and even ballroom dancing class offered at your gym. However, now you’re having trouble walking when you get up in the morning and you can’t seem to shake the aches from your feet up to your lower back. What gives?
“For avid dance fitness goers, the most common injuries are repetitive strain injuries Read the rest of this entry »

New programs introduced at the convention offer Zumba instructors a variety of new techniques and resources, adding versatility to their routines in an effort to re-energize their clients’ experiences. Some of the new programs, created for instructors to further their Zumba education, included Zumba Basic Level 2 and Zumba Toning.
“We had an overwhelming response at the first-ever Zumba Fitness Concert and Instructor Convention,” said Alberto Perlman, Read the rest of this entry »