As many people think about physical fitness in the new year, what about working out for a cause?
That’s the objective of Glastonbury resident Eddie Esteves, who’s on a mission to do 1,000 pull-ups, raising money to build playgrounds in the country of his birth: Cape Verde.
“I figured I would take a task that was very difficult, which is a pull-up, combine it with another task, which is very difficult as well, which is to do a fundraiser. And then to top it off, you get a 70-year-old guy to try and bring that all together,” Esteves said.
At first glance, you’d probably never believe Esteves is 70 years old, but he’s shocking people in the gym and online with his fitness for fundraising.
Cape Verde is an island chain off the northwest coast of Africa. Esteves was born there before coming to the United States with his parents …