Thomasville Older Adults Learn Zumba At Senior Health & Fitness Day
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Posted: 12:13 PM May 26, 2010
Thomasville Older Adults Learn Zumba At Senior Health & Fitness Day
Today is National Senior Health and Fitness Day.
Reporter: La'Tasha Givens
Email Address: latasha.givens@wctv.tv
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Staff Photos: Erin Evan
Tiara Appling-Berry and Stephen Foster stand at attention and await instruction during a workout session Thursday afternoon with other new Army recruits. The group of 14 recruits gather in the parking lot near the U.S. Army recruitment office at Flat Shoals Road and Ga. Highway 138 every Thursday to run and do strength training as they get ready for basic training. Some have already signed up for military duty while others said they will sign up soon.
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Close to one hundred seniors showed up at the YMCA in Thomasville and got active.

Some took the Zumba class while others participated in free health screenings.

Officials say it's not only important for seniors to be physically fit, but it's also important to have a good social life.

Resident Dixie Baker says, "I can do the zumba and go to the right and the left and I can even shake my booty. Classes like this has helped me maintain my ability to move anyway I want to".

Betty Claire Neill tried Zumba for the first time. "I think it's great there are all sorts of classes wherever you fell you fit in and where ever you feel your activity level is there is something for you". Says, Neill.

Last year more than 100,000 people participated in Senior Health and Fitness Day nationwide.
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