Worth Repeating: A Body-Building Champion Helps Build Senior Bodies

“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous
posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 6/29/14:

WORTH-REPEATING

Martin Luther King Addo is a two-time winner of the Mr. Ghana bodybuilding championship. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1999 and became a certified personal trainer. He now works out of his own storefront gym that he opened last summer inside Southbridge Towers, a housing development in Lower Manhattan that is home to many older adults.

Pete Molinelli, a court officer who lives in Southbridge Towers, said that the building’s seniors used to be “just kind of shut in.” And then Mr. Addo arrived.

“All of a sudden, it’s like there are all these new people in the neighborhood,” Mr. Molinelli said. “But no, they’ve been here forever. Addo brought them out.”

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