Kristi Furlong

My name is Kristi Furlong.  I'm 37 years old, married and have 2 boys, ages 7 and 3.  After gaining 70 pounds with my first pregnancy and burning it all off thanks to Cardio Kickboxing, I became passionate about exercise and started teaching in 2002.  I taught only Cardio Kickboxing at a local gym here until I got certified to teach Zumba in November of 2009.  Both classes are a blast of high-energy and loads of fun.  I will never teach a boring class.  The Zumba classes took off as I started teaching at my church here in Saint Joseph.  The classes have 50-100 people in them regularly and they are so much fun.  Someone told me about these "teaching vacations" and I couldn't believe how excited it made me - I would love the challenge of teaching a group of strangers on vacation how to have a blast exercising.  The tag-line for Zumba is "exercise in disguise".  So fitting.  I just participated in teaching the Guiness Book of World Records largest Zumba class - where we set the world record! I love exercise, love people, and feel blessed to have the job that I do.