{"id":87459,"date":"2025-08-22T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87459\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T00:31:08","slug":"assisted-living-facility-residents-with-boxing-gloves-show-age-is-just-a-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87459\/","title":{"rendered":"Assisted living facility residents with boxing gloves show age is just a number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing program helps seniors in Wilton Manors <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">WILTON MANORS, Fla.  \u2014 Angel Baricelli said the residents of Williamsburg Landing &#8212; some nearing 100 years old &#8212; have shown him no one is ever too old to put on boxing gloves and get a workout. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Baricelli, the director of rehabilitation at the assisted living facility, said the Rock Steady boxing program has been popular. The seniors meet twice a week for the challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Baricelli said the personalized program focuses on each of the residents\u2019 physical abilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> \u201cWe promote longevity,\u201d Baricelli said. \u201cThat\u2019s the main goal: Break people from that mindset of I\u2019m too old for this, I\u2019m too old for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some of the residents have also benefited emotionally from the program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhen they put on their boxing gloves, they feel energized,\u201d Baricelli said. \u201cIt brings memories. They punch their frustrations away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More \u2018Time To Smile\u2019 reports<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Miss Bea&#8217; celebrates 100th birthday in Coconut Creek Couple celebrates 80th wedding anniversary <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jackie Pascale\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/7459247a-7a40-428f-b513-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jackie Pascale<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jackie Pascale joined the Local 10 News team in July 2025 as a reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing program helps seniors in Wilton Manors WILTON MANORS, Fla. \u2014 Angel Baricelli said the residents of Williamsburg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-87459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}