Early May Updates & Cross Training!

1.       The Zumba Heart-a-Thon is all set up and ready for participants to start purchasing tickets. Tickets are $15 if purchased in advance! The event will be from 1-3pm on May 14^th. You can click here for additional information. Unlike the last Zumbathon®, ZumbaChemist WILL be at this one, and will be leading the group in two songs (soon TBD) along with fellow KC instructors! The intention is to have the class at WRBC opt to come to the Zumbathon® (along with any other students too!) in lieu of our normal class day. While ZumbaChemist realizes $15 is not a free class, but this is not something that comes along every day either! The proceeds go to the American Heart Association, so it’s a great cause to support too.

2.       For today, there will be NO ZUMBA® CLASS at TRC at 4:30pm! My apologies to some of you gals who drop in, but unless TRC has folks sign up for the class, they do not call me in to teach (even for drop-ins). That being said – if folks do sign up this week – we can have class the rest of the month of May. I’d love for this to happen, so get thee signed up for Tuesdays at TRC!

3.       As the Gold’s class experienced yesterday and the TRC classes will get on Wednesday and Saturday this week, we’ve got some new song and new choreography for the month of May! A few of the songs are even new to me (as in, the song isn’t new, but the dance is!), but I have to say that my students reading this are extremely forgiving in that manner!

4.        Surprises…. Are coming… soon! Be on the lookout!

5.       Don’t forget to “Like” ZumbaChemist on Facebook! It’s updated at least once a day, if not more, so it’s a bit more “real time” than the blog here!

ZumbaChemist is a big believer in not re-inventing the wheel. After all, if someone more capable than you has already done it well, why not give them the due credit and save yourself frustration and energy? That being said, ZumbaChemist also is a believer in Cross-Training. Yes, Zumba® is fun, exciting and a great workout, but there is more to life than Zumba®! *Gasp!*   So, in case you're wondering about Cross-Training, check out this great article on the benefits of Cross-Training! As the reader will see, it focuses on Cross-Training for those who run, but the principles are readily applied to  Zumba® participants as well!