The “new year, new you” gym mantra is everywhere, and people are ready to take on healthy habits and gain fitness finesse. For those of you hitting the gym, here are tips to help make 2018 your best year of wellness: 1. If you use it, you wipe it. From weight machines to the treadmill screen, if you’ve used a gym apparatus, then it’s also your responsibility to wipe it off for the next equipment-user. Most gyms have anti-bacterial wipe stations, so use these and keep your perspiration to yourself. 2. Keep your eyes on your own workout. Ogling someone’s intense cardio routine or even absentmindedly watching your neighbor while you wait for a machine to free up are fitness faux pas. This can make fellow gym-goers uncomfortable, and create a stressful environment in a place where many go to decompress. Focus on your own workout, and resist the urge to let your eyes wander. 3. Respect silent signals. Headphones, avoiding eye contact, and choosing secluded gym areas are all definite signs that someone wants to be left alone. Many people consider the gym as a personal space where they can focus
on wellness and fitness with do run it to a colleague or frie ment is appropriate. 4. Keep hygiene in check. Everyone in a communal fitn cleanliness and good hygien ble; however, we can avoid u applying deodorant before a personal hygiene. 5. Breathing Room. Remember the importance o crowding fellow gym-goers. I are open, for example, move others breathing room. If you machine, why hover around tiently to the side, and take o they’ve finished. 6. Be Early. When attending group classe ly to find a space, lay down y Don’t barge in two minutes la tor to accommodate you; be class by being on time and r
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GYM DO’S & DONT’S 7. Selfie Etiquette. Before posting your #gymselfie, keep these in mind: • Keep it out of the locker room. Absolutely no selfies in the locker room. Many gyms already have rules and signs up prohibiting photos in this safe space. • Double check the background. While you may not be in the locker room or other safe spaces to make sure you won’t accidentally snap a shot of someone nearby. •Work harder in the gym than on the pose. Don’t spend the majority of your workout snapping pictures. If you don’t get that perfect IG post, no worries - you’ll be back. 8. Be Kind Everyone in the gym has the same goal: to better themselves. Do not judge someone by how much time they are, or are not, in the gym. Whether you consider yourself a fitness professional, fitness freak, fitness fan, or just a regular gym-goer, consider it your responsibility to encourage anyone that wants to make a change. A healthy gym culture welcomes new and returning gym-goers. www.huffingtonpost.com
place at 93 percent. Highest-grossing solo/non-sequel Superhero Movie With $501 million in North America and $897m worldwide, Black Panther has passed Fox’s Deadpool ($363m/$783m in 2016), Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman ($413m/$821m in 2017) and Sony’s Spider-Man ($403m/$821m in 2002) to become the biggest non-sequel and non-ensemble superhero flick of all time. Everything else in this genre is either a team flick or a solo sequel. And even that’s not a very long list.
in North America and Black Panther has biggest worldwide, that doesn’t opening for an feature either Bruce Wayne African-American Director or Tony Stark. And yeah, Black Panther‘s 3-day it will soon pass The Dark opening weekend gross of Knight in North America $201.7 million is by far the and both Chris Nolan Dark biggest opening for a film by Knight sequels worldwide an African-American to become the biggest com- director. Ryan Coogler ic book flick worldwide. bested the competition by
Black Panther is highestrated Superhero Movie Black Panther is now the highest-rated Marvel movie of all-time (according to Rotten Tomatoes). That includes all Marvel films, not just ones from Marvel Biggest superhero movie withStudios. It’s currently sitting out a Batman or an Iron Man at 97 percent on Rotten ToNow that Walt Disney’s Black matoes, with Jon Favreau’s Panther has passed the likes of Iron Man in second place Wonder Woman and Spider-Man at 94 percent and James 3, it is officially the highest-grossMangold’s Logan in third ing superhero movie of all time,
a long shot; the previous record-holder was F. Gary Gray’s The Fate of the Furious, which opened to $98 million at the domestic box office in April 2017. Suffice to say, Coogler is going to hold onto that record for a long time considering that the film broke $200 million already. Courtesy: Forbes & ScreenRant
Johnny SKANI
He is back to claim his spac Mombasa music scene but With back to back videos a campaigns, the new kids c two from him on this front a talk with Johnny Skani, t about his break, his comeb
1. First of its great to have the pioneers back on the a with why the sabbatical fr Basically to give back! For because other people were it’s inside me and through So I went silent to be able t the artists trying to grow the industry.
2. Was it planned or did it j ing during your break? This was a plan, all planne As stated to create platfor in this industry. I started V Kali (Top ten chat for Msa a a lifestyle show about Mom in Mombasa, Pungwe is th know just that.
3. So why Now, did you jus moment and get back into Everything usually has th what artists don’t do to gr strategise, back in the day team effort, even with my a couple of people who wo strategy for my comeback wanted to do it, to who I w
4. Who are you working w in a couple of snippets wit around the country? Talking about songs alread couple of collabos I have d be a surprise (giggles). All lease only as videos in my
ce not only in the t nationally as well. and aggressive media could learn a thing or t. Sauti magazine had to get some insight back and whats next.
One of my team members went to AFRIMMA (Lagos), backstage with big names like Wizkid and the likes, we made a couple of connections. In fact one of those artists added a verse to one of my songs, so there are a lot of surprises, 1 collabo from within Africa and 3 in Kenya.
the sound of one of airwaves, so to begin rom the Music scene? me it’s God sent, not e doing it but because it I could help people. to help and support w and get their shot in
5. Are you solely working on the Music or still going to juggle it with some of your other projects? My profile still reads the same, still have projects am doing in Mombasa, trying so hard to grow upcoming artists. I am still a point man in MOB, handling a couple of things but am giving music 150%.
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st have that Eureka the studio? he right moment and row in the industry is ys it was always a y solo career. I still had orked with me. I had a k , all of it, from how I wanted to work with.
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ady available, I have a done but I want it all to my songs I will recomeback, no audios.
7. Any hope for a collabo Come back with Nyashinki???? I think there is a photo I have posted with him so hopefully there is something in the kitchen, hehe! Kuna kitu inaiva! 8. Social Media, has you bouncing back a lot from Nairobi. Any plans to make a permanent shift to the capital city? What am working on right now is not for Mombasa or Naiorbi, it’s for Kenya and International too thats why am doing a tour. I feel even mashinani want to hear what we have and to dominate and bring back our taste to society like SA and Nigeria, we need to touch base everywhere not just Nairobi or Msa. 9. Lastly What’s next for Johnny Skani, what do we have to look forward to? Next….Representing Kenya in one of the biggest shows in the USA and am actually working on that, the other thing which I actually promised my fans is I will drop videos back to back until June. Thats 12 songs, 2 a month.