SIKHULILE GROWING IN LEAPS, BOUNDS

MBABANE – Instead of focusing on the COVID-19 effects, fitness enthusiast Sikhulile Mahlalela has chosen to look at the brighter side.
The ongoing partial lockdown has resulted in the closure of gyms and fitness centres. Fitness fanatics have been compelled to conduct individual training at their places of residence.

For Mahlalela, who is a taekwondo artist, the case is the same, but she said there were benefits of home training as well as group training.
“I think I have enough time to do exercises.
“I like and want to do exercises at an interval of my choosing and there is no pressure,” she said.

Routine

The Ngomane High School Form IV black belt taekwondo artist started doing martial arts in 2008 and despite her usual routine of attending training at dojos, she is fast adapting to home training individually.
The pupil also urged all Eswatini athletes, as well as the nation at large, to observe all government’s COVID-19 safety guidelines to contain the spread of the virus.

“I think it is best for everyone to stay at home and continue exercising to stay fit and healthy in the fight against the coronavirus,” she said.
Health experts say physical inactivity is a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and a widening variety of other chronic diseases, including diabetes mellitus, cancer (colon and breast), obesity, hypertension, bone and joint diseases (osteoporosis and osteoarthritis), and depression.
The prevalence of physical inactivity (among 51 per cent of adult Canadians) is higher than that of all other modifiable risk factors.

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