SOMERVILLE — The setting and sounds are the same as they’ve been for generations. A basement jammed with rings, punching bags, towels, and water bottles. Trainers calling out instructions to perspiring fighters. The bap-bap-bap of leather gloves. What’s different at the Somerville Boxing Club these days is the diversity of the clientele, with teenagers preparing for national championships training alongside professional women who turn up for vigorous fitness sessions.
“It’s one of the best cardio workouts you can get,” testified Arshiya Seth, a primary care physician who comes with friend Shweta Yadav, a business analyst for a marketing technology firm.
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Like annual spring cleaning the Globe does one of these stories every year. Ho hum.
Boxing is fun, and great conditioning, but people are kidding themselves if they don't take concussions seriously. We've learned a lot about concussions since Rocky Marciano's day, and none of it is good.
There's different kinds of tough. Being mentally and emotionally tough will get you further in life than being able to take a pounding -- because, bottom line: getting hit in the head is really bad for you. Way worse than we ever knew.