People can find community at Clovis' Mayweather Boxing and Fitness

CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Mariana Tukia didn’t locomotion into Mayweather Boxing and Fitness expecting to autumn successful emotion with it.

"I deliberation I truly conscionable wanted thing else, a antithetic mode of moving my body, and truthful I signed up for boxing and I ended up loving it," Tukia, who started taking classes a fewer months ago, said.

A certified value trainer herself, Tukia was conscionable looking for thing different, but she recovered truthful overmuch more: community, confidence, and a regular challenge.

"So I'm successful the 50, you know, club, which means that if you instrumentality 50 classes wrong your archetypal 90 days, past you're successful the club, meaning you get a escaped garment and past you get your representation connected the wall, and that was portion of the crushed wherefore I started coming each day," Tukia said.

Mayweather Boxing and Fitness opened successful Clovis successful 2021 and offers high-intensity, full-body workouts designed for each fittingness level. The gym features a squad of 5 coaches,
with photos of nonrecreational boxer Floyd Mayweather connected the wall.

"You're going to get a afloat assemblage workout, 5 rounds of boxing, 3 rounds of fitness, and it's beginner friendly, anybody tin travel successful present and bash immoderate they want," said proprietor Kenny Wiggins.

Wiggins knows what it takes to spell the distance. The erstwhile NFL subordinate and Fresno State Bulldog brought the marque to the Central Valley aft retiring from football.

"I fell successful emotion with boxing erstwhile I was training," Wiggins said. "It was a batch of amusive to bash a antithetic benignant of workout alternatively than conscionable a shot workout; it correlates truly good with shot successful the presumption that I played."

Now, astir 4 years in, the gym is unfastened 7 days a week.

For those who whitethorn beryllium tense astir stepping into the gym, clients accidental spell for it.

"I deliberation gym intimidation is specified a existent thing, particularly erstwhile you're truthful uncomfortable successful your ain body," Tukia said. "I deliberation conscionable trying a caller happening out, I ever say, if it's scary, bash it anyway, bash it scared."

For these 5 a.m. groups, it's not conscionable astir throwing punches, it's astir showing up for yourself and discovering what you’re susceptible of.

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