Toning every muscle with punches

When a colleague asked me to join him in a boxercise workout last week, I imagined I would find people punching each other, with head guards and painful knuckles. At 11 a.m, we walked towards the GPO building on Kenyatta Avenue into Oasis fitness centre.

In the boxercise class— a word coined from boxing exercises— fitness enthusiasts were not doing any actual fighting but throwing punches, skipping ropes and using aerobic steps.