Summary Members at the gym have become close friends.
(Web desk)- Boxing is a tough sport, but so are the grandmas of Cosmo City, a suburb in South Africa’s economic capital Johannesburg.
Aged between 75 and 80 years old, South African seniors box to fight the aches and pains of old age and to keep fit.
The gym offers two sessions a week that include cardio and boxing exercises like sparring and hitting the punching bag. Eventually, they challenge each another inside the ring.
According to boxing trainer Nqobile Khumalo, the women started out by doing aerobics as part of a special program for the elderly introduced at the gym five years ago.
Then they tried boxing and they were hooked.
Members at the gym have become close friends, something that has helped many of them deal with the loneliness and isolation that often comes with old age.
