My GYM is born in 1999 in the Masai area in Mto wa Mbu near the Lake Manyara National Park.
Mto wa Mbu has a population with around 20.000 persons. According of the financial situation of the village, there is only the possibility to play football. It's the cheapest and easiest way to make sport for the children and habitants.
I few years ago I decide to bring another sport in this village. My favourite sport is since long time the bodybuilding and boxing training. I made this sport since years and I wanted to share this sport with other people in my village. I tried to follow my dream and I started step by step to build up my own fitness club. Inspirational from European standard equipment I build up all equipment by my own hand and my own ideas.
My idea
I want to give young boys and girls the chance to be more sportive and to give them a free time activity after the school and in the vacations. They have different choice of the sport, like fitness, aerobic, boxing and bodybuilding, not only football.
On the other side I give courses for the adults to be more trained and sportive for the health.
With this healthy free time activity I want to let understand the people how important sport can be, because it's also a way out from the bad street groups without activities. This way gives me a chance to enlighten the habitants how to be aware from HIV (AIDS).
In this way we have the chance to find young talents who want to be good to make boxing as serious sport.
What we teach the young boys and girls
At first I want to give them a good training for boxing and fitness. On the other way is training together with other people a way to learn in a team, how to train in a team of boxing or fitness and how important it is to be a part of a team and to count on each other partner of this group. For the young boys and girls I give this training for free, to give them more education and assistance.
What I have from other countries
We have a good equipment to train boxing because we have good connection with Germany and Switzerland and we receive some equipment from there like a ball, punch bad, glover, pad, belt, straps and the cable pull system and others. We want to thank all the people who give us this assistance.
What I have now for equipment
free-weight technology, cable motion technology, seater chest bench fress, cybex leg press plate loaded 45 degree, adjustable flat bench 90 degree, technology preacher curl, technology standing culf, technology body-uwezo squat press, stretching products mats.
I made my new collection style from Boxing technic and I gave the name (cyibog punching go & back technology). As well I build a boxing ring to train how to use the ring.
What is difficult to find in Tanzania
Without help it's difficult to find some equipment in Tanzania. We need curl bar, weight and a fitness bike. When you can find this in Tanzania it's too expensive. So we need the help and donation to work for the ideas of the Redd's GYM Boxing & Fitness Club.
My future ideas
I want to lift up the talents of sport and boxing to be a sport club with good young boxers. On this way we try to arrange some of the match in country and out of the country. On the same way I want try to open some different sports for all people also for the poor people. I hope to find one day a way to open an association to build up the sport in Tanzania.
You are welcome to join us with your ideas ...