My gym recently got a new head trainer, and yesterday, as he was watching me shadow-box, he kept telling me that I was too tight and that I needed to relax. I've been told this by every single other trainer in the gym before that, and when I asked this trainer exactly what he meant, he just asked me, "Do you lift weights?" I told him that I used to more than a year ago, and that I only do bodyweight exercises now (mainly pushups and pullups). After some thought, he told me that I needed to stop doing those exercises for now, and work on loosening up and getting the boxing technique down. He says that I have the power to do damage, and that we need to start focusing on boxing technique to take full advantage of the power in the ring.
Right now I'm about 5 foot 9 inches tall and weigh around 159 pounds, although I can easily drop down to 147 pounds and have done so before in the past. I think it might be my natural build that makes the trainer feel that I'm too tight and not relaxed, as I'm pretty short and stocky, but my main problem is that I psychologically have trouble not doing the pushups and pullups everyday because I feel like I'll begin to lose strength if I don't do them.
What are all of your thoughts? I will talk to the trainer about this tomorrow to see maybe if I can continue my daily bodyweight exercises, but just train more in terms of boxing technique and stretching out my upper body to relieve some of the tightness. Thanks for your responses in advance.
This has really been bugging me....
Right now I'm about 5 foot 9 inches tall and weigh around 159 pounds, although I can easily drop down to 147 pounds and have done so before in the past. I think it might be my natural build that makes the trainer feel that I'm too tight and not relaxed, as I'm pretty short and stocky, but my main problem is that I psychologically have trouble not doing the pushups and pullups everyday because I feel like I'll begin to lose strength if I don't do them.
What are all of your thoughts? I will talk to the trainer about this tomorrow to see maybe if I can continue my daily bodyweight exercises, but just train more in terms of boxing technique and stretching out my upper body to relieve some of the tightness. Thanks for your responses in advance.
This has really been bugging me....
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