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By eva wasney<\/div>\n
STAFF REPORTER<\/div>\n
St. james <\/div>\n
A St. James gym wants to make getting fit more accessible — just in time for the new year.<\/div>\n
Winnipeg Women’s Kickboxing and Muay Thai (1777 Portage Ave.) will step into 2019 with a new fitness program that capitalizes on the diversity of the gym’s training team.<\/div>\n
Boss Body Bootcamp is a six-week program that begins Jan. 7, 2019 and includes kickboxing coaching, cardio, conditioning, weight training and a nutrition plan for $175.<\/div>\n
“We wanted to make something more reasonable priced for people and something that’s women-only,” gym owner and two-time Canadian Muay Thai champion Trisha Sammons said.<\/div>\n
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Sammons and assistant coach Chelsea Zoske will take run the kickboxing portion of the bootcamp; while cousins Tanya, who is a certified personal trainer, and Ashley Viner, a sports and exercise nutritionist, will handle the weight training and nutrition program. <\/div>\n
“We all have different strengths and wanted to put them all together into one class,” Zoske said. <\/div>\n
Zoske started kickboxing seven years ago as a way to lose some “baby weight” and quickly fell in love with the workout. Sammons saw potential in her as a competitive athlete and convinced her to start training for the ring. <\/div>\n
“(Trisha) really put a lot of faith in me and a lot of coaching into me and it’s just a passion that I found that I’d like to continue forever,” Zoske said. <\/div>\n
“She was instantly good at it, I knew I wanted to get her fighting,” Sammons added, laughing.<\/div>\n
Ashley Viner joined the gym three years ago at Sammons’ urging and is also dipping her toe into the competitive ring. <\/div>\n
“I’ve found since coming here that it gave me strengths I wasn’t aware of,” Viner said. “It’s more a mental game than it is a physical game because you can come here and be so exhausted but you want to keep going… it’s mind over matter and it’s addicting.”<\/div>\n
Being a competitive kickboxer in Manitoba means a lot of travelling since the province currently lacks a governing body to run sanctioned fights. <\/div>\n
With kids at home, Viner, Sammons and Zoske all agree that it can be hard to compete at higher levels.<\/div>\n
“When you have a family it’s tough because you can’t take off for a weekend, you really have to plan around it,” said Zoske, a mother of three who lives in St. James.<\/div>\n
When Sammons opened her studio more than a decade ago, the Tuxedo resident wanted to do away with the intimidating atmosphere found in other gyms —she’s accomplished that by focusing on women-only classes and by making the gym family-friendly. <\/div>\n
It’s not out of the ordinary to have kids watching from the sidelines or women teaching classes with a baby on their hip. <\/div>\n
“We know some moms don’t have babysitting — we have our kids here all the time,” Sammons said. <\/div>\n
The Boss Body Bootcamp runs Jan. 7 to Feb. 11 and is open to women at any fitness level. Hand wraps are included in the price and the gym has a promotion on until Dec. 20 for $25 off the registration fee.<\/div>\n
Contact bossladiesfitness@gmail.com to register. <\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":280264852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-502962692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-metro"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"","story_tag":"","byline":"Eva Wasney","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/metro\/2018\/12\/17\/get-your-kicks-while-getting-fit","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Get your kicks while getting fit","url":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/metro\/2018\/12\/17\/get-your-kicks-while-getting-fit","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/metro\/2018\/12\/17\/get-your-kicks-while-getting-fit"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/ew-kickboxing-dec19-8+(2).jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/ew-kickboxing-dec19-8+(2).jpg"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"feedloaderapi"}],"creator":["feedloaderapi"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Our Communities","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2018-12-17T21:01:00Z","datePublished":"2018-12-17T21:01:00Z","dateModified":"2018-12-17T21:05:33Z"},"rendered":"