Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you hear the word “Jazzercise,” what comes to mind? If you instantly imagine '80s fitness classes full of pastel leotards and ...
More than 50 years after she created it, Jazzercise founder Judi Sheppard Missett explains how she came up with the concept and how it exploded in popularity in the 1980s. Her daughter and ...
Jazzercise, the fitness phenomenon that combines heart-pumping choreography and aerobics, is making a huge comeback 50 years after it was first launched. Shanna Missett Nelson, the daughter of creator ...
"Just to warn you, my mom might be Jazzercising when we get home." This was always the disclaimer my childhood best friend would give me before entering her house after school. I have vivid memories ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been 56 years since Judi Sheppard Missett founded the dance-based fitness program Jazzercise in 1969. Created before women ...
Judi Sheppard Missett on how inclusivity is the key to longevity for Jazzercise. (Photo: Getty Images; designed by Yahoo Life) It Figures is Yahoo Life's body image series, delving into the journeys ...
Editor's note: A previous edition of this story erroneously stated Kelly Sweeney's current role in Jazzercise, Inc. Paul Russell's pop hit "Lil Boo Thang" plays over the loud speakers as Dawn Snapp ...
FARGO - Nicole Hedlund Sommers bounces on the podium, swiftly switching from move to move. She doesn't miss a beat as she talks and sings along to the music. "We'll just stay here all night and ...
Since Jazzercise started over 50 years ago, hundreds of thousands of (mostly) women have come together to exercise and get fit. But if you think Jazzercise is just jazz hands and shoulder rolls, ...