Another couple who have benefitted from the sessions are Ian and Beverley Saunders.<\/p>\n
Ian was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2023 and his wife admitted that it was getting to a stage when it was easy for him to “sit and do nothing”.<\/p>\n
“It’s been an absolute lifeline for both of us,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We’re not expected to be getting in the ring with Muhammad Ali next year or anything daft like that,” joked Ian.<\/p>\n
“I’ve definitely improved my strength and coordination although I still trip over the rope ladder every week.”<\/p>\n
Last November Beverley watched Ian march with his fellow British Legion members at a ceremony at Crystal Peaks in Sheffield.<\/p>\n
“It was the proudest day of my life,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ian had previously refused to take part.<\/p>\n
“I was worried I’d fall over,” he said.<\/p>\n
“These boxing sessions have given me so much confidence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another couple who have benefitted from the sessions are Ian and Beverley Saunders. Ian was diagnosed with Parkinson’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-503548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}