PARIS: Alexandra Recchia balances a lampstand on a flower pot filled with pebbles. She places cushioned pads at head height and chest height on ...
Even five-time world karate champions like Alexandra Recchia have to find novel ways of training during the lockdown. AFP/FRANCK FIFEPARIS: Alexandra Recchia balances a lampstand on a flower pot filled with pebbles. She places cushioned pads at head height and chest height on the precarious structure, before binding it tightly together with adhesive tape.
She is doing"eight to nine training sessions, six days a week," three of them working out with the lampstand-cum-punch bag which is holding up pretty well after nearly three weeks of pummelling. His favourite time, the spring classics season, is already lost and even the greatest race of them all, the Tour de France, is in doubt. Offredo reckons that at 33 it will be his last season in the saddle.He still pushes himself to the limit. And when legs are weary and his mood sags, he gets a charge of encouragement from the photo of his hero Fausto Coppi, which hangs from the wall of his makeshift gym.
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