do you box or just like to say you do?

[Kayo]

I kickbox, do BJJ and lift weights since i work at a gym..

[phallus]

It has been awesome reading your stories, and I thought should answer my own question.

I haven't been boxing for long and I'm too old to do much other than a few years of amatures, but if I start something I put everything into it. I train six nights and few mornings a week with my trainer and do cross training on the seventh day. I run and swim a few times a week and incorporate weights into shaddow boxing and sit ups etc.

I don't have a program. I just listen to my body. If I suck at something, or a part of my body doesn't feel sore I work on that. I've had injuries but I still turn up and work another part of my body.

My daily training is skipping, shaddow boxing, boxing circut, sparring and then light weights or body weight exercises.

When I first started I didn't even think of it as exercise. I just wanted to be a boxer. I was born with a killer instinct and for some reason I enjoy getting punched in the head. Makes me feel alive. I'm very stubborn and have fought for a hell of a lot in my life... when i'm boxing i feel more like myself than when i'm doing anything else.

i had a couple amateur fights, i don't box anymore though but still train. i used to do lot of weights, now, not so much anymore. i'm too old to be an amateur and i was a puncher, i wanted to fight in the pros but i'll save u the long story that goes with that. i love hitting things so i think i'll be training for the rest of my life even though i don't do anything with it, although, a couple years ago i got in streetfight with a bunch of kids and my boxing training really saved my ass.... anyway here's my routine:

monday - 3 mi run followed by stretching and shadowboxing
wed - some weight training, and medicine ball workouts - pushups on the ball, and a lot of bodyweight exercises followed by more shadowboxing
friday - running up a long set of stairs near my house, then plyometric pushups and jumping, hurpees, stretching and shadowboxing
sunday - after resting my old balls for a day the really fun stuff, heavy bag and lots of speed bag.

like i said, i'm just an older guy who likes to train, i'm not doing this stuff for any other reason. if i had fought as a pro, i'd mix some pad work in the wed and friday and have some good sparring also and spend alot more time on the speed bag. my left hook has got a lot better since i started taking the speed bag more seriously

[Verstyle]

Just don't even waste your time or attention on them. You know you can take them, and proving to them in a parking lot doesn't really show anything. Do your business in the gym.

It was a just for jokes thing. I didn't even really hit him hard and he had the headgear on.haha

[DA1CATAS]

I've been reading some of your workout routines and I'm wondering where the boxing is? 1:Most of you guys seem more concerned about how cut you look, how many plates of metal you can press 2:and the dimensions of your biceps.

But how many perfect left jabs can you do without dropping your right? Have you defended enough hooks that you can do it in your sleep because your reflexes just kick in? How light are you on your feet? How do you react when someone who can benchpress twice as much as you just doesn't stop throwing combinations? Do you look into his punches? Is your technique good enough so you just knock him out?

Trust me. I can't press and pull and lift ****. And if I saw pics of your bodies I'd probably be perving on you all day (I'm a chick, not gay). I'm just wondering where the boxing skills are....

Uhh.. Do I box or just like to say I do?
LOL Well I really LOVE Saying "I BOX"..So I try to keep winning so I can say I do. lol.. They go hand in hand...If you like to do something.. then your going to want to tell SOMEBODY that you do it.

1. LOL.... maybe thats me... Yea i like looking cut.. When I work on specifics like jabbing or right hands or footwork... I try doing it my best regardless of the pain so I can look better.. but its actually making me better too... Just so much easier to train for looks.. Its like a laxative (unflavored) and and a Strawberry one.. Both do the same but the second is easier to take. lol... *(who cares!! You got it! didn't you?)*

2. thats why i do these crazy pull-ups...


oh yea and i really do box.. some fights are around on here.. and youtube.

[Rafael Benitez]

Shawn is defo one of them dudes who just say they box. His trainer looks like he is definitely running a bum factory. If they are an active club, I would love to go to their shows! Nothing like visiiting a bum factory and getting some easy W's for your records.

If there are other people who just say they do, then they are kidding only themselves. Get carded and get some bouts. That is all the training advice you will ever need in boxing really. After that your trainer shuld take you to where you need to go. If they can't, find another trainer. Move town if you have to!

[TheTruthIs]

It has been awesome reading your stories, and I thought should answer my own question.

I haven't been boxing for long and I'm too old to do much other than a few years of amatures, but if I start something I put everything into it. I train six nights and few mornings a week with my trainer and do cross training on the seventh day. I run and swim a few times a week and incorporate weights into shaddow boxing and sit ups etc.

I don't have a program. I just listen to my body. If I suck at something, or a part of my body doesn't feel sore I work on that. I've had injuries but I still turn up and work another part of my body.

My daily training is skipping, shaddow boxing, boxing circut, sparring and then light weights or body weight exercises.

When I first started I didn't even think of it as exercise. I just wanted to be a boxer. I was born with a killer instinct and for some reason I enjoy getting punched in the head. Makes me feel alive. I'm very stubborn and have fought for a hell of a lot in my life... when i'm boxing i feel more like myself than when i'm doing anything else.

You might want to consider a program. For recovery is an essential part of it. I can tell you I work and train very hard, but before I got smarter and more organized, I wasn't maximizing the effectiveness do to poor planning and management of training. Just something to think about. Good luck.

[!! Shawn]

You might want to consider a program. For recovery is an essential part of it. I can tell you I work and train very hard, but before I got smarter and more organized, I wasn't maximizing the effectiveness do to poor planning and management of training. Just something to think about. Good luck.

I agree. That is one thing that is probably the biggest difference between when I first started training and where I am at today. I listen to my body.

I use to just gut it out. If I was sore I would still go in and spar, work my ass off, go all out. After more injuries than I can count, I finally learned that maybe it was better to train smart and fight hard instead of training hard and fighting injured.

I learned that it is better to say no, I am sore when you are asked to spar than to just spar anyways and not say anything. Some days are just recovery days. Focus on technique and the whole workout is like a big warm-up.

I finally learned when I sprained my back when I decided to go all out balls to the wall intense when my back was already sore as hell.

I only do 3 really intense training days a week now. The inbetween days are filled with cardio and other exercises to get the blood flowing and the body healing.

When I am training for a fight I don't increase the number of days I train hard, I simply increase the duration and intensity of the workouts on my hard days.

[markeeta]

Shawn. You have my respect man. I can't fault a thing you said. And although you stir **** around here you definately do box. I'm not about to comment on how well, but you are posting boxing vids, not pictures of your abs.

I will always get into the argument about training too much, recovery time and sticking to a program, but I know what works for me and there's no way I can explain that to people. I do actually have a program, it just isn't quantified and it is in my trainer's and my head, not in and Excel spreadsheet.

Like Shawn said, each training session doesn't have to be an intense workout. Some days I just go through the motions and others I make the most of having energy and enjoy going harder. I'd never push myself too hard cause it would mean having to take longer off boxing and that literally might kill me. I wouldn't risk it. And for the record I haven't had a single injury from boxing, just from ****** clumbsy **** like tripping over my own feet.

[Fidayin]

Shawn. You have my respect man. I can't fault a thing you said. And although you stir **** around here you definately do box. I'm not about to comment on how well, but you are posting boxing vids, not pictures of your abs.

I will always get into the argument about training too much, recovery time and sticking to a program, but I know what works for me and there's no way I can explain that to people. I do actually have a program, it just isn't quantified and it is in my trainer's and my head, not in and Excel spreadsheet.

Like Shawn said, each training session doesn't have to be an intense workout. Some days I just go through the motions and others I make the most of having energy and enjoy going harder. I'd never push myself too hard cause it would mean having to take longer off boxing and that literally might kill me. I wouldn't risk it. And for the record I haven't had a single injury from boxing, just from ****** clumbsy **** like tripping over my own feet.

lol he actually made 2 threads where he posted a picture of his abs xD

[laurinsane8]

Boxed 4 years in the amateaurs