Meet your fitness teacher and boxing coach, Leo Sammarelli. Leo has designed a full body adaptive fitness program that focuses on core strength, stretching, and cardio with moves from a variety of sports – swimming, boxing, handcycling, and skiing. His goal is to assist you in discovering ways to adapt fitness to your body, helping you live a healthier lifestyle and feel good.
Leo Sammarelli, a Canadian boxing champion takes on the Grouse Grind trail in Vancouver, Canada, a steep 2.9km incline up rough terrain known as “Mother Nature’s Stairmaster”. As a victim of gun violence in 2017, Leo suffered a devastating spinal cord injury which left him paralyzed from the wais...
We sat down with NM teacher and adaptive athlete Leo Sammarelli to get to know him a little better by playing 20 Questions.
Find out the advice Leo would give to his 10-year-old self, what would surprise you to find out about him, and what he thinks is the biggest misconception about boxers.
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Leo leads you through an adaptive stretch class that will wake up your upper body and neck. Move through a series of wrist, shoulder, tricep, neck, and upper back stretches before finishing the class with an energizing Tai Chi breathing exercise. This class can be done from your chair or any seat...
