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dence, get a good workout and ed with Kaerobics, then moved
on to kick boxing.
have fun besides.
Today, she's an instructor at
The bell rings every three min-
utes (the length of one round) in the Executive Boxing Club.
"It's addictive," she says.
the studio, where boxing bags are
OK, she might not mention her
everywhere. Mr. Levy doesn't
passion on a first date. But she's
even hear it anymore.
The hard smack of glove convinced more and more wom-
against glove, though, is impos- en should give it a try.
"A lot of people can't imagine
sible to miss.
Mr. Levy is sparring with what it's like when I go into the
Kristy Andrews, a teacher at the ring with a man," she says. "They
Executive Boxing Club. She jabs ask, 'You mean you really get
him hard with a right-hand hit?' "
Ms. Hyman says she feels
punch, then spins around and
comes back with a kick to the stronger, has more energy and
has lost weight through kick-box-
head.
"It feels good," she says, not ing. It also helps her release ten-
even out of breath. 'There's noth- sion, she says. "I'm just in love
with it."
ing like it."
Ms. Hyman, also a teacher at
ound Two.
Or, how a quiet boy be- Congregation Shaarey Zedek and
its Beth Hayeled nursery school,
came a he-man.
Mr. Levy was shy and says all it takes for someone to
reserved as a child growing up in want to try it himself is to take a
Oak Park. He was the last to get look at what goes on in the ring.
"People see it and they say, 'I
picked for teams. Even his own
brother was always teas-
ing him.
Then, when Ken was
12, he saw a group of men
practicing karate at a
nearby park. It was a rev-
elation.
Ken enrolled in a
karate class, and by age
16 was a black belt. "I
could do these really
amazing things," he re-
calls. "I'd be at AZA meet-
ings and I would kick in
the bathroom ceilings."
The guys were amazed.
The girls swooned.
"All of a sudden," he
says, "I was a hero."
While a student at
Wayne State University,
Mr. Levy won the state
championship in Tae
Kwan Do and was work-
ing toward a world kick-
boxing championship.
He decided it was time
to make physical fitness Kick-boxing coach Marcie Hyman is ready for
anything.
his career.
"I wanted to use it to
help others, the way it had helped want to do that,' and they're ac-
tually shaking they're so excit-
me," he says.
He began studying exercise ed — it's like it's a piece of
physiology. He worked in health chocolate cake and they can't wait
to have it."
clubs. He did a lot of research.
Of course, chocolate cake can
Then, with the "aerobics craze
still going strong," Mr. Levy de- weigh you down. Boxing does not.
cided to capitalize on that inter- In fact, Mr. Levy says the sport
est and expand it to include improves speed, power and ac-
self-defense. The result was curacy.
"This isn't something boring
Kaerobics, a combination of kick-
boxing and aerobic moves that like getting on a treadmill," he
have since been adopted by fit- says. "With boxing and kick-box-
ness centers throughout the ing, you're gaining knowledge of
strategy building and self-de-
world.
Then it was time to tackle fense."
He recounts the story of one
something else. Ken Levy picked
up his gloves and, with his every of his students who, while on va-
last penny ($10,000), in 1994 cation, put her skills to good use.
opened the Executive Boxing "Some guys came over and start-
ed harassing her," he says. "So
Club.
she threw a head kick — and this
ound Three.
A sport like chocolate was after just a few lessons. They
left her alone."
cake.
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Marcie Hyman met Ken
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