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The Zumba Fitness class had its opening week at the Cerritos College Student Center that started on Sept. 12 for students and faculty to experience the new integrated work-out program associated with the Pound by Pound program.

Zumba Fitness, which is latin-based, can incorporate anything from hip-hop, salsa and glutes exercises.

More than 50 people showed up to the first workout class; the session started out with a soft pace of warming up with one-two step exercises that was led by two instructors, Judy Chan and kinesiology major from Cal State Fullerton Jennessa Chan.

Both certified Zumba dance instructors, Judy Chan, who is an athletic instructor at Cerritos College, and her daughter sponsor the newly-adapted program through the Student Health Services.

“I was pleasantly surprised, the energy was good,” the elder Chan said, “it was a multi-level class. So that’s why we taught it a little bit differently.”

Art and design major, Demisha Inghram, felt that it was a way to express oneself and meet new people who are there for the same interest.

“I actually thought it was going to be challenging, but since the instructor taught slow at the beginning, I was able to get used to it,” Inghram said.

Jennessa states that staying healthy and active is a key promise to feeling better about exercising with Zumba Fitness, that in the end it will improve the well-being of people to a healthy lifestyle.

“I feel like now a days a lot people are focused on studying. But we need to also remember to focus on our health because in the long run, that’s what really matters.”

Cerritos College students and faculty can get a feel of Zumba Fitness one-hour session that takes place on Monday and Wednesday from 5 to 6 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. and also on Tuesday and Thursday from 6:50-7:50 a.m. in CE-4.