I've been doing the normal training routine at my boxing gym for about 2 months now and I was pretty athletic going in, at least more than the average person. I can talk to my coach about sparring anytime but I want to know what level of fitness I should have before I even try. Thoughts?
Get the Bas Rutten Audio workout, if you can finish 30minutes of it, then you good to go.
Its not even about fitness to spar, its all about the trainer/coach of the gym trusting you, you can be fat and spar because a fat person who trains will have the cardio to go the few rounds.
If you take a fit guy who only runs to stay inshape and put him in the ring he will throw up after the 1st round.
Its all diffirent, but usually trainers dont start letting you spar instantly unless you are coming from a diffirent school or have trained there for a few months.
unless its one of those hollywood gyms where they dont care and they start letting you spar without proper footwork/technique and put you in amateur fights with only a month or two of training, which is how you ruin people.
Gotta build a solid foundation in the gym first
I don't mean to be negative but 2 months of boxing is like nothing.
If you think you have good fitness, just get in there. Keep your guard up, wear good head gear, and wear 16 oz gloves. There is no point in putting it off. The only real way to learn boxing is thru sparring.
I would advice only going 2 rounds on your first outing.
I should have done that before I 1st sparred. I remember almost collapsing from my 1st sparring session. It is totally different when you hit the pads or bags for 30 minutes than sparring for even 3 minutes.
no sweat man, I can definitely give the rope a good 9 minutes, and I hit the bag for 30 minute sessions so yeah, I will talk to him. Thanks for the advice :)