new YORK, USA (Reuters) – Jennifer Vaughn needed to get in shape after going to the faculty of law. Emily McCart wanted a break from running.
Give a heavy bag boxing punches, punches and kicks proved just the sport they were looking for.
For women who want an intense training, the exercises based on the boxing can be efficient and provide Security, although their feet never touch the inside of a ring.
“I was hooked to it”, said Vaughn, a lawyer in Chicago. “Has given me an incredible feeling of confidence and poise, a sense that there is nothing that can not be achieved”.
So much was his devotion Vaughn ended up opening a franchise of the Boxing, a national chain specializing in boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts in his locality.
“Has evolved from a love for the sport”, said. “I wanted to train as a wrestler, but in a place where he did not have to go into the ring if you wanted to not”.
Your club has a quadrilateral of official dimensions and some 35 68 kilos bags. Women, which represent 60 percent of their clientele, are inclined to training classes in group.
“We have professional women, students, working people, some elderly, also” indicated. “We have a few professionals, but most are here to make sport”.
McCart, a lawyer in the Office of Chicago, said that the force that has been obtained from their Boxing classes complements their careers.
“I learned something of sport, technique,” said. “I never thought I’d like, but it has become part of my life”.
Philip Jacobs, director of franchises in the Boxing, said that his company is directed to women who do not work and their children.
“I would say that 90 percent of our clients have nothing to do with the struggle of truth,” said from Santa Ana, California.
While pointed out that its members are divided equally on the basis of gender, expects an increase in female partners this summer when the 2012 Olympics include women’s boxing for the first time.
“Is funny.” It gives confidence in oneself. “It is so psychological as physical,” said sport, he said you can consume up to 1,000 calories. “If you can do a combination of six punches, you do two punches.” “Everyone has his own jacket and goes at their own pace”.
Pam Opdyke, regional director of sport of Reebok Supers Club/NY and The Sports Club /, said that women that aim seeks the intensity that offer classes of boxing and kickboxing at these centres, as well as men.
“I think that our Boxing classes have always had a majority of women,” said Opdyke, who works in New York.
She said that boxing is great for toning the forearms, back and abdominals, areas in which women tend to wish to focus, at the time offering a high intensity cardio session.
“Is all intermixed in boxing”, explained. “Only hit the sack is cardiovascular, and you’re working the abdominal muscles and arms.” “You are also hanging around, and there are movements with jumps, followed by push-ups and squats”.
/Por Dorene Internicola /
