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There’s a man in our Zumba class!
I never intended to walk into a Zumba class. The year was 2012. I had been taking fitness classes with one of the toughest instructors I have ever known. She also happened to be the fitness coach for Zimbabwe’s National Cricket team — and I understood why. Legend has it she once worked the team out so hard that one of them collapsed and started throwing up. But I digress…
So one month she moved to another country and all of a sudden I had to find a new fitness class.
I needed something affordable, high energy and close to home.
Inertia is a powerful force. For over a year I didn’t have a consistent workout class or gym membership.
Then around January 2013, Nigerian Afro-pop duo, P Square, released their song Alingo. I happened to see the video on TV one day and fell in love with the dance moves.
On January 26, 2013, I posted on Facebook, “LOVE the dance moves in the P Square Alingo video :-D. Anyone wanna teach me how to dance like that!!?”
I got a number of responses, including one from Zumba Mixy Active, a Zumba group operating in the Harare central business district.
Patience, from Zumba Mixy Active, told me that they taught dance moves like this and that Alingo was one of their new routines and I was welcome to try their class…
