Inspiring Senior Impresses Personal Trainer -- At 90 Years Young, Koban Earns T-Shirt

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From time to tim,e the Olive Branch YMCA sponsors a fitness challenge for members that involves keeping track of workouts over a 12-week period. Members who complete a set number of workouts or hours involved in YMCA fitness activities are rewarded a Y T-shirt for their efforts. My new fitness challenge heroine is Madelyne Koban.

I first noticed her last winter. Her son and daughter-in-law, Alan and Masumi Koban, would painstakingly bring her into the Y with the aid of her walker and seat her in the lounge . They would then walk her down the hallway and in a few minutes walk back with her. It was very delicate and slow-going. Then they began to bring her into the Wellness Center and put her on the Nu-Step exercise machine. She was able to move the machine only haltingly at first. I realized within a few weeks that Madelyne was staying longer and longer. And she was operating this bike-like machine with more force and accuracy.

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Inspiring Senior Impresses Personal Trainer -- At 90 Years Young, Koban Earns T-Shirt

One day when Alan and Masumi were t...

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