Former NY Drug Lord Turns Life Around Helping Seniors, Yahoo News:

[Stuart G]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/former-ny-drug-lord-turns-life-around-helping-221210378.html

One day if we blessed, we all gonna get old." So says Tommy Mickens. Decades ago, Mickens was one of the top drug lords in Queens, where he ran a multimillion-dollar cocaine enterprise. These days, after serving 20 years in prison, he's doing his best to give back and do something positive by helping seniors to exercise.

"I always loved older people," he told Yahoo News. "I learned from older people, I wanted to find a way to help them. Help those who couldn't help themselves and bring it back to my community."
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According to an article from the New York Post, which served as motivation for this blog entry, Mickens's clients love him. "He’s our pride and joy," 73-year-old Daphne Avery told the Post. "We love him regardless of what he’s done—his past is his past. This is the present."

So what's a workout like with Tommy Mickens? "I work from the bottom up," he says. "I work with sciatica. Problems like cramps and muscle spasms. Work on fingers and hands and arthritis. And I do it all in 30 minutes, and it's fun for them."

"Seniors are like kids," he says. "They can sense when somebody's not real. And they can sense the love I have for my mom and for them. That's why they're so willing to work with me and they get better as time goes on. And I'm proud of them."