It’s about 9:30 on a Tuesday morning. Not only am I out of bed but I’ve also eaten breakfast, gotten dressed and am (big breath) exercising. It’s an unusually warm May morning and I’m running laps around the skate park in Parque Centenario as Freddie Faull, founder of Jungle Gym, shouts out the changing exercises – run backwards, knees up, feet touching your bum. A curious crowd of 15 year olds begin to congregate in the bleachers and I’m reminded of a time in my own life when I had nothing better to do than wake and bake. As he suits me up with boxing gloves, he looks at me half-serious half-smirking and tells me to make sure to give the kids a good show. And in one quick session, he accomplished something I’ve been trying to do my entire life – make exercise fun.
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