Moncton KickFit left to right: Russell Smith, Mandy McLean and Jake Darsch (Photo: submitted)
A new club in on Mountain Road in Moncton’s north end is hoping to help get you in shape, while relieving stress at the same time.
Moncton Kickfit is a locally owned facility that will offer training in kickboxing.
Co-Owner and Trainer Jake Darsch says , “It’s a cardiovascular workout. It also builds some muscles and strength along the way. It also just feels really good to punch and kick something every now and then. Everyone deals with some stress with life..”
Co-Owner Mandy McLean says after the recent closure of another club, there was a void in the community.
She says the kickboxing enthusiasts who have rallied behind them has been amazing, “The Community support has been incredible. Some of our future members have come in and done some painting, and they’re just waiting with their cleaning rags to help once the dust settles. I think we’re looking at 50 members right off the bat when we open.”
Co-Owner Russell Smith used to train at a previous facility in Moncton, “I could never really do gyms and didn’t like them. When I saw this concept, everyday is different. With my ADHD type of mind, I couldn’t do one repetitive thing over and over again, I would just get bored and not participate anymore. But with this kind of workout, each day I faced a new activity.”
McLean says the facility is around 1500 square feet, and it is a bit bigger than what they would need, “Most of our equipment is kickboxing apparatus. So punching bags, wrecking balls, horizontal bags, speed bags and they don’t require a great deal of space. It is a circuit type of training. You’ll move from the beginning of the gym all around to the final circuit. We have ten circuits each at three minutes and thirty second break in between each three minutes. We have some battle ropes, dumbbells, Olympic bars for more strength training. The space, we feel, is really set up well for what we are doing.”
Smith says they’re hoping to open the club in the coming weeks, in the Evergreen Plaza on Mountain Road.
For more details, visit the Moncton KickFit Facebook page
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