{"id":16712,"date":"2025-09-11T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16712\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:20:08","slug":"boxing-training-helps-us-deal-with-parkinsons-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/16712\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Boxing training helps us deal with Parkinson’s symptoms’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the people who regularly attend is Sharon Brown.<\/p>\n

“My wellbeing is a lot better,” she said.<\/p>\n

“It’s changed me completely.<\/p>\n

“I love going on the bags. It’s made a big impact in my life. A very big impact.”<\/p>\n

Steven Wood, who started volunteering at the club after seeing how much the classes helped his mother, said it was “inspirational watching people progress”.<\/p>\n

“Watching the new boxers come in and helping them through and actually seeing the results at the end and how much better they are with the balance,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We wouldn’t be here without Tommy.<\/p>\n

“Basically these people would have been sat at home dealing with Parkinson’s, wondering what to do.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the people who regularly attend is Sharon Brown. “My wellbeing is a lot better,” she said. “It’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-16712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}