Riverlea Aerobics Club promotes health and fitness
Burning calories has never been this fun
The Riverlea Aerobics Club hosted their annual ‘aerobathon’ yesterday at the Riverlea Recreation Centre.
The event started at 8.30 and ended at 2pm.
The seniors from South African Senior Fitness Association (SASFA) started off the morning with their aerobics fitness session.
Muzi Maphalala then started the next session with participants who are basically doing the aerobics for the first time, so he did the basics of aerobics with them.
Nkosana Maphalala then carried on with the next session with is called the ‘high-low’ which is a type of dance aerobics. The next session is called ‘Box’ which is focused on the cardio side of aerobics.
Group instructor Jacquline Ohlsson explained that they are focusing on the beginners’ level this year because many of the participants are beginners.
“Every year we do the fitness awareness campaign. Many people get scared when it comes to working out and fitness so this is just a day where we show them how fun it is to burn calories.”
“We joined with different clubs mainly from Soweto, they will be joining us a little later. Today is just about fitness and introducing the people to aerobics,” said Ohlsson.
The aerobics club partnered with Liberty and the Region B Health Department who did cholesterol, blood pressure, HIV testing, TB testing, and weight monitoring test for residents.
Edwina Fillies who is the instructor for SASFA said: “Everybody enjoyed it so much, people were sweating and some other seniors were even surprised that its such a fun workout.
The event was really well organised and it brings so many different people together its just so amazing.
To have something like this in the community is really great because these more to do than sitting in the street all day, people should join in in the fun.” All age groups are welcome to join the aerobics day.
