Boxing Your Way To Better Health

I’m not planning to fight, but hitting is great!

Image by Khusen Rustamov from Pixabay

I’m a 50 (cough, cough) year old man. I work out four to five times a week; cardio, some weights, stretching and the occasional yoga class. And I’m bored. If it wasn’t for Netflix on my phone, cardio on an elliptical device would be the equivalent to an aerobic root canal. I’ve found watching Matt Damon kick ass in a Bourne movie kicks my heart rate up high enough so I’m getting a workout.

To mix things up, I occasionally engage the skills of Vancouver’s Mike Howard as a personal trainer. Focused one-on-one workouts in a private gym. However, after about 30 minutes, I check the clock like I’m in my grade ten math class and think, “When will this be over?” Mike smiles, gives me a breather and then we continue. Or to be precise, I continue, with Mike directing my form and counting. Usually by this time, I hate everything about him (I don’t really but it feels like it)

Mike Howard — He looks like a trainer doesn’t he?

A few months ago, he talked about Verena Pelletier, a woman he partners with in some classes. A “boxer” — aka, a woman that teaches boxing under the guise of personal training. As I had started to write a novel about a kick ass…