Before self-defense courses, punching bags would sit for months without feeling the warm caress of a clenched human fist. Arm arms against assailants with today's Groupon to Rondeau's Kickboxing, redeemable at the Johnston, Woonsocket, West Warwick, Tiverton, and Warwick locations. Choose between the following options:
• For $21, you get 21 days of unlimited fitness classes (a $197 value).
• For $99, you get five personal-training sessions (a $225 value).
Rondeau's Kickboxing is an all-women's gym focused on using boxing and kickboxing to improve fitness and provide self-defense skills. In Fitness Kickboxing, real kickboxing and boxing moves awaken latent muscle groups and destroy stubborn fat enclaves. An experienced instructor—such as Heidi, who has lost 75 pounds herself—will motivate trainees during the treadmill sessions and free weightathons of a group personal-training session. Meanwhile, the Push It! class is a variety pack of exercises that incorporates weights and cardio into a kicking and punching routine more effective than most tantrums. During an individual personal-training session, one of Rondeau's fierce-footed trainers preps bodies with a 15-minute warm up, then guides the student through a 45-minute assault on physical limitations. Men are allowed access to these classes and sessions upon referral.
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The Groupon Guide to: Personal Happiness
There are many factors that determine a person's happiness, from their serotonin levels to the number of times they wash their hair per day. To help you feel great, take inspiration from some famous sad sacks who learned to feel good about themselves:
Abraham Lincoln: "Honest Abe" gained that ironic nickname after his first presidential address, when he admitted that he was actually Zeke Chalmers, professional con man, unlicensed dentist, and wanted falcon poacher. Despite living a life of ill repute, Lincoln/Chalmers vowed to become a new man, saying he found the positivity necessary to be president in a book of inspirational limericks.
Henry Ford: Noted grump Henry Ford famously invented the automobile after being insulted by the groom at a horse wedding, then a common ceremony. Although the irritable inventor initially believed he was "too glum to be a success," Ford turned his frown upside down via an experimental surgery that replaced his facial muscles with upturned bronze implants. His smiling, bulletproof face became one of the richest, most famous visages in the country.
CoCo, the Sign-Language Gorilla: Like most animals who have been granted the curse of speech but not the Cartesian knowledge of the self to cope with it, CoCo's first words were an anguished "Why am I?" CoCo later became happy when she found a banana, then sad again after she ate the banana, then happy again with a different banana, then sad again, on and on, over and over again without end.
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