Strike!

Bolos El Dorado completes renovation

The crash of the ball against ten pins may bring back memories of Saturday nights spent at the local bowling. Bolos El Dorado, located in the El Dorado Super Centro, hopes to draw on those memories with their newly renovated alley, said Miguel Angel
Henriquez, the lane’s general manager.

“We’ve changed and updated everything, the lanes are synthetic instead of wood now, we have a newly remodeled seating area and switched all of equipment from Brunswick to AMF,” Henriquez said, “It was old and outdated, now it is much better.”

Bolos El Dorado completed the renovations on the 32-yearold lanes just this year and the improvements helped increase the popularity of the already thriving league play that begins every night of the week at 6:00p. m. There are 22 leagues with the
most popular night of play being Tuesday, he said.

People should not feel intimidated by the competitive leagues though. Everyone is welcome to come any day or night of the week. On Saturday nights at 8:00p.m.,
Bolos El Dorado features X-bowling, where the alley glows neon, the stereo blasts popular music and the disco balls spin over the lanes, Henriquez added.

Along with bowling, Bolos El Dorado also has a restaurant, a billiards room and a new bar area. Families can book birthday parties that include two hours of bowling,
a reserved area and a cake.

“We have many more clients now that we’ve renovated. All types of people come here, of professional people come for league play, but X-bowling attracts kids of all ages, and the weekdays see a good deal of families. All-in-all it is a good mix,” Henriquez said.

Panama Boxing Club in El Dorado

Lose weight, be fit, have fun, go boxing

Panama Boxing Gym Staff (from left to right): Hiram Cerezo, Arturo
Shuffler, Orlando Soto, Andrea Rosas, Israel Duffus, Carlos Novoa,
David Lombardo.

Boxing is a fun and exciting way to get in shape and learn self-defense. Panama Boxing
Club is a new gym in the El Dorado neighborhood of Panama City. Now city dwellers do not have to leave the metropolitan area to join an aerobic boxing class, take on the bag or spar one-on-one with a professional boxing instructor who sets up a personalized training program for each student.

People of any age or level of physical strength can participate in the club’s activities. The club provides training and nutritional guidance for professional boxers, amateurs and anyone who wants to box. They have a diverse group of members including children, retirees, doctors, lawyers, and university students, said David Lombardo, one of the founding partners of the club.

El "Sparring".

Lombardo also says that sixty percent of the members are women. Perhaps it is the promise that boxers can burn up to 1000 calories in a good session! Results
are fast too. After just one month of training, boxers notice looser fitting clothes, a more toned body, and increased energy. One of their students worked off 35 pounds in just a few months by pounding the bag, Lombardo said

According to Panama Boxing Club trainer Hiram Cerezo, boxing is one of the most effective ways to tone and condition the body because the sport combines both aerobic and anaerobic exercise– the body burns calories because the heart beats at a constant cardiac-workout rhythm and bursts of energy push the workout to another level. He added that the sport is also a great form of stress relief.

Group workout.

The club has Panama boxing pioneer Arturo Shuffler on their team as trainer supervisor. He has given boxing and aerobic boxing classes at Kelly fitness and the former Spa at the Hotel Panama, and he is excited to be affiliated now with the first gym dedicated to boxing in Panama City. Before, he says, people had to travel out to Curundu or Barraza to find a similar gym.

Panama Boxing Club is located in Centro Commercial Camino de Cruces, behind
Scotia Bank in El Dorado. Call 360-2286, 6753-4371, write panamaboxingclub@gmail.com or visit www.panamaboxingclub. com

Panama Boxing Gym Staff (from left to right): Hiram Cerezo, Arturo
Shuffler, Orlando Soto, Andrea Rosas, Israel Duffus, Carlos Novoa,
David Lombardo.