Fit Notes
Going Strong at 78—Spotlighting Leon Tabbs
Longtime Roxborough resident offers fitness tips and keys to stay healthy.
Senior citizens who hit the gym inspire me, and at the Roxborough YMCA there are a lot of them. Many young people think that old age equals a sedentary lifestyle with aches, pains and a medicine cabinet full of prescriptions. But people like Leon Tabbs prove us wrong. Leon, 78, gets into the gym to workout every day. He uses the elliptical machine for cardio that won't harm his joints, and weight machines for strength training so that the movements are controlled and less likely to cause injury. But his workout routine was not always so "safe"—he started out as a boxer! When Leon was 13, there was a neighborhood bully who liked to beat him up. So Leon started to train in boxing for self-defense. As it turned out, he became pretty good. In…
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