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Punching their way to fitness
Women get full-body workout in boxing class
Posted By CHERYL CLOCK , STANDARD STAFF
Posted 2 days ago
At first, the bag wouldn't m ov e . N o t even an inch. She practically threw all the power she could muster from within into
that bag. And still, it didn't budge.
She was exhausted. Not a punch left in her.
That was a year ago, when 44-year-old Denise Fekete
joined the women-only boxing exercise program at the St.
Catharines Amateur Boxing Club
on Niagara Street. Fekete came out twice a week,
with her 44-year-old friend, Lisa Lamothe. She even hired an instructor to squeeze in an extra workout every Monday.
These days, when she hits the punching bag, it moves. A lot.
"It's empowering for a woman to feel they have the ability to do this," she says.
The two women are among a group of regulars who work out in the club's Boxercise program, offered every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 p. m.


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