Fitness coach’s boxing lessons keeps frailty and ageing at bay

Boxing coach Hassan Abdul Salim throwing a leading hook at a heavy punching bag at the Workout Warehouse gym Nairobi on March 7, 2025. 

Photo credit: Sinda Matiko | Nation Media Group

"50 is too young for last effort, just start slowly practising movements that focus on arms, shoulders, stomach and legs," Hassan Abdul Salim tells an elderly-looking man whom I later learnt is the chief finance officer at one of Kenya's five-star hotels.

Nearby, two women are gasping for breath after taking turns to land a round of 150 uppercuts [a punch delivered upward with an arm bent] and triple jabs on Mr Salim's black Puma boxing pads.

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