#wegotgoals

My first memory of fitness was in, you guessed it, a Jazzercise class. In elementary school I had a few classes at my dance studio, but that didn't feel like a workout. (And why should it? It was dance. It was just fun!) It wasn't until my aunt dragged me to her Jazzercise class one summer afternoon, and I was sandwiched between so many adult women dancing furiously for an hour, dripping sweat and repeatedly giving each other high fives between songs, that I made the connection: dance and fitness might very well be the same thing. And for women across the nation and the world, Jazzercise was the first form of dance fitness to ever allow them to feel good - to genuinely have a good time - while working out. "When Jazzercise began, there really wasn't a fitness industry, " Shanna Missett Nelson, President of Jazzercise and daughter of Jazzercise founder Judi Missett told me. When Judi Missett saw women dropping out of her dance classes in school, she wanted to know why. The women loved to dance, but they weren'