Having her family beside her during the tough training has been important to Hughes. The importance of a strong community and role models is crucial in a sport like Ninja Warrior. To train you have to work on both your lower and upper body strength, get rid of nerves, and practice things to challenge yourself.” “I usually go down there every day, which is really fun,” she said. With her whole family involved in the sport, Hughes’s parents decided to build a Ninja course in their basement. However, a recent development has allowed her to train more often than that. Hughes trains two days a week at Ultimate Ninjas Libertyville, located off of Route 176, next to Feed My Starving Children. We all had so much fun and started enjoying it as a family.”
So my sister and I begged our parents to take us there and they finally did one summer. “I had seen somebody competing on TV that lived in the Chicago area and also owned a gym. “ began when I started watching the show, which was about four years ago,” Hughes said. One of these future Ninjas attends Libertyville High School: freshman Kylie Hughes. The show is now 12 seasons in and Ninja gyms are popping up all around the country to train the next generation of competitors. It became so popular that instead of the Ninja courses around the country acting as qualifiers for Japan, they became qualifiers for the new American Ninja Warrior finals in Las Vegas, televised by NBC. The first Ninja courses built in America were for Americans to try and qualify for the original, Japanese version of the TV show. The TV show challenges hundreds of people to compete on obstacle courses all around the country that test endurance, speed, grip strength, balance, powerlifting and everything in between. “American Ninja Warrior” has become a nationwide phenomenon.
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