Zumba Breaks Records at UQ Sport

Zumba Fitness has arrived at the University of Queensland with a record-breaking class attended by 400 people.

The 400 attendees, the most to attend a single Zumba class in Australia, crammed into UQ Sport's gymnasium for a one-hour trial of the dance fitness phenomenon last Thursday.

UQ Sport Group Fitness Coordinator Julia Sesnan said it was the biggest group fitness spectacle she had ever seen stating âitâs not every day you see 400 people dancing in time together.

"But the most satisfying thing was that just about every one of those people were smiling and having a great time.

"Zumba will certainly be a regular feature of our group fitness timetable from now on."

The trial class was part of UQ Sport's Semester 2 ComeânâTry Week â a week of free group fitness and lifestyle classes primarily for UQ students and staff but open to the public.

The week was extremely well attended by the UQ community with over 1,500 registrations across a wide range of classes, including Pilates, salsa, kickboxing, RPM, yoga, karate and golf.

Following the initial success of Zumba, a regular class will now be held at UQ Sport every Thursday evening at 6:30pm.

Zumba combines Latin dancing and aerobics to form an exhilarating style of exercise that is rapidly growing in popularity around the world.

For more information go to www.uqsport.com.au

Zumba image used for illustrative purposes only. 

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