The Good Life – March-April 2019
Featuring fitness trainer Jake Haile. Local Hero - F-M Ambulance, Having a Beer with Travis Hopkins, Scuba Recovery and more in Fargo Moorhead's only men's magazine.
Featuring fitness trainer Jake Haile. Local Hero - F-M Ambulance, Having a Beer with Travis Hopkins, Scuba Recovery and more in Fargo Moorhead's only men's magazine.
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Steve Holand is an athlete in the<br />
Rock Steady Boxing program,<br />
and he learned about the program<br />
about a year and a half ago from a<br />
family friend working in the health<br />
care field. Holand had been off his<br />
exercise routine for about 5 months,<br />
and he’d noticed his symptoms —<br />
most notably tremors and balance<br />
— were getting worse. Though he<br />
wanted to do something about it<br />
through exercise, Steve said he just<br />
couldn’t seem to get himself to the<br />
gym to work out.<br />
In November 2017, Steve joined<br />
the Rock Steady Boxing class<br />
and quickly realized how much<br />
he enjoyed the intense but fun<br />
workouts. “Jake has a natural upbeat<br />
coaching style, and it’s obvious that<br />
he is passionate about his work,”<br />
Steve said. “In class, he encourages<br />
us to push ourselves but respects<br />
each individual on how far they want<br />
to take it.”<br />
While Steve said getting to know the<br />
other athletes in the class has been<br />
an unexpected bonus of attending<br />
the class, the tangible benefits<br />
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are much more powerful. Steve<br />
said his Parkinson’s symptoms<br />
are much less troublesome, he’s<br />
in great shape and he rarely gets<br />
sick. Plus, lingering shoulder pain<br />
has disappeared and his feelings of<br />
depression have dissipated. “I think<br />
that is remarkable payback for a few<br />
hours invested each week,” Steve<br />
said.<br />
That increase in self-esteem and<br />
an improved self-image is exactly<br />
why Jake enjoys his job. His first<br />
experience with helping someone<br />
realize how movement and fitness<br />
could improve self-esteem was<br />
more than 6 years ago when he<br />
was working for Community Living<br />
Services, an organization in Fargo<br />
that provides support services for