WALRAA's Wellness Event ends the year with a Punch!
Tonight WALRAA ended the year with a wellness event: Rumble Boxing! I joined the event with fellow coworker and newly elected Board member Secretary Shannon Barter and it was truly the capstone of the year.
“Way to end the year with a punch WALRAA!”
WALRAA is the Washington Area Legal Recruiters Administrators Association. It’s a professional organization for legal recruiters geared towards those who are relatively new to the industry, and for reasons that may be obvious, are quite active in the Washington, D.C. area. I found WALRAA to be an invaluable resource when I first got into the field of legal recruiting, and remain a devoted member today.
Putting the Gloves On
After a year of attending luncheons, speeches, conferences, and happy hours it should come as no surprise that the members of WALRAA brought a range of athletic skills and experience to the capstone wellness event of the year. Nevertheless, we showed up (on time of course), and the team at Rumble welcomed us with open arms (never mind the gloves).
Located conveniently on M street, Rumble was easy to get to with a short walk for the after-work check in time. Both Shannon and I had never attended a boxing class before, and the staff made sure that we understood what to do and expect prior to the class start (it was real boxing with gloves, bags - the whole set-up!). They provided lockers for our things, rooms to change, hand wraps, bottles of water that were ours to keep, and gloves to be returned at the end of class.
Fears allayed, we took our numerically marked places for the class to begin. One half of the class would be working the bags while the other worked the bench. The groups would trade places several times so everyone had a chance to hit, and with the combinations of movements the overall workout was an intense full body experience. For those that had a hard time remembering what they were supposed to be doing, Rumble displayed the exercises high on the wall in bright, easy to understand graphics. The music was loud, the lights were low, and the instructor was fun and full of energy. They even had black lights! It wasn’t long before we were all sweating.
After a full hour of boxing sets, everyone emerged from the Rumble room with legs and arms that felt like jelly, and smiles on their faces. Way to end the year with a punch WALRAA!
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