As part of our exciting IMAGE Active series, we're spotlighting our most active IMAGE team members. Next up, is our talented art director...
As part of our exciting IMAGE Active series, we're spotlighting our most active IMAGE team members. Next up, is our talented art director and fitness aficionado Marlene Wessels, who's recently fallen in love with pickleball.
At the beginning of this year, I was unfit, overweight, exhausted, grumpy and just fed up. I used to jog pretty consistently since my early twenties, but then I just stopped a few years ago and have done very little since. No real reason, mostly getting older and waking up with aches and pains. I’ve tried several things to get active, gym classes, pilates and I tried to join a tennis club, but with no luck… that’s when I found pickleball.
Pickleball is easier to pick up than tennis and it costs less. You can start to play at almost any level of fitness, and it is a hell of a lot of fun with the quick ball speed and rapid rallies which is brilliant for coordination and reaction time.
Apart from fitness, I find pickleball brilliant to de-stress, because it takes such concentration and focus. On top of that is the camaraderie with like-minded people, and pickleball has a remarkable ability to boost my mood. I am on a high after each and every session.Apart from pickleball, I swim twice a week throughout the year at the Forty Foot. We are a group of five, and we solve the world’s problems during our dips.
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