Boxing: Bobbing and Weaving Your Way to Fitness

In the comforting age of hot yoga and aqua-jogging, why would anyone elect a road to fitness that requires one to get punched in the face? Jeannine Stein has a few answers to that one, and they are (almost) persuasively presented in her review of "The Gleason’s Gym Total Body Boxing Workout for Women" (Fireside,
2006) , authored by gym owner Bruce Silverglade and trainer Hector Roca. Here’s what Silverglade has to say: "The workout is addictive, because of the combination one-two
punch of physical and mental challenges. You have self-confidence and
you’re looking and feeling better, and when you go
into a ring, you have such total concentration and focus, the same
focus that you can use in the workplace." Read more in the L.A. Times.