If you're not so much the boot camp, instructor-screaming-in-your-face, Olympic-lifting type and instead prefer laughing and a bit more light-heartedness when you workout, you need to try Zumba Step.

THE GIST: Zumba® steps it up a gear. Literally. It’s the class you know and love: same infectious Latino rhythms, same Shakira impression in the mirrors (admit it), but incorporating elements of old ...

Markham Heid is a contributor at TIME. He is the author of The Habit Trap, due out in early 2027. Bethan Mooney for TIME Zumba was born in Colombia in the 1990s, quite by accident. A fitness ...