Fearless Fitness Club, launched its fourth fitness branch in Maun, hosting thousands of the Maun residents who have an appetite for fitness over the weekend.
The fitness club founded in 2013, is a continuously growing health and fitness movement focusing on cross functional training. The center has three other branches in Gaborone, Palapye and Francistown.
The newly opened branch at Mall of Maun, trains in the unique way of outdoor gym movement which includes training through the use of tyres.
Officiating the launch police divisional commander North West, Senior Assistant Commissioner Cyprian Magalela congratulated the club for the efforts in making the bold move of ensuring the fitness of residents of Maun.
Magalela noted that fitness improves the quality of life, enhances the mental well being of a person and prevents chronic disease, urging members of the public to join the club.
The Divisional Commander further said that the fitness club will improve the concerning issue of high drugs and alcohol abuse that is prevalent in Maun, as it would keep members engaged and busy.
He also stated that drugs highly contribute to the social ills which are a huge concern to the police, most of which include gender-based violence ranging from murder, rape and defilement among others.
Giving statistics of these concerning issues, Magalela said that last year, Maun recorded 19 murder, 145 rape and 109 defilement cases while this year from January to date there has been 9 murder, 58 rape and 45 defilements cases reported.
In most cases of defilement, Magalela said perpetrators were either family members or close relatives, and further appealed to parents and the community to take responsibility to curb the vice.
For his part, Motor Vehicle Fund’s (MVA) Senior injury prevention manager, Thatayaone Mokakangwe said their collaboration with the Fitness Club was to promote safe mobility ‘to enhance quality of life of all road users. He therefore advised the pedestrians to always be safe when using the road. He reminded the community to face oncoming traffic when walking or running and to also cross the road where it is safe to do so.
Mokakangwe advised pedestrians to also wear reflective clothes for their own visibility when going for marathons or early morning jogs. He said the fund advocated for safe roads, thus the need to construct roads in way that accommodated all users.
Meanwhile Co-founder of Fearless Fitness Club, Kealeboga Leruele commended the Maun community for warmly welcoming the club by coming in large numbers, adding the numbers were very impressive and has shown the community’s appetite for fitness.
“Our club focuses on cross functional training, outdoor training and we also do some runs and using recycled tyres to train on body weight,” he added.
Leruele further stressed that participation in sports and fitness could be a powerful tool to engage the community and prevent crime, violence and potentially drug use especially among youth. He added that it could also help reduce feelings of anxiety and improve overall mental well-being and therefore encouraged the public to take regular exercise seriously.
