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After 40, cardio or weights first? Gym-goers’ dilemma
Collins Omondi, fitness consultant and enthusiast, performs dumbbell bicep curls during his routine workout at Alpha Fit Gym along Kiambu Road on October 2, 2025.
Photo credit: Wilfred Nyangaresi | Nation Media Group
Every dawn around 5am, it’s a familiar sight at Alpha Fit Gym in Thindigua: 50-year-old Richard Agufana pedalling steadily on a Merach cross-trainer. His mornings begin slowly and deliberately, spending 15 to 20 minutes easing his body into motion.
Some 27 kilometres away at Workout Warehouse on Uhuru Highway, 59-year-old Susan Omondi has already broken a sweat by 6.30am. You’ll find her commanding a StairMaster or at her neatly arranged corner, dumbbells at the ready.
