Joining A GYM

[AJ_7_FAN]

Sup,


Newbie here. I have been training at my home, but I want to make sure I am not instilling bad habits so I am thinking about joining my local gym. The thing is I couldn't find the number in the phone book to find out the hours and if there was a trainer there the whole time. So I drove over there and found the hours posted in the window but no contact info. My question is, unlike a weight gym where you just go in find empty equipment and go, how to I approach a boxing gym. Do I go in and ask for the trainer and talk to him. I don't want to walk in there looking like an ass. I am sure they will know a new face and help me out. Any replies will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks alot.

[Oriachim]

just ask the trainer...

[fraidycat]

This isn't the movies; everyone looks like an ass the first time they walk into a boxing gym. Don't worry about it.

[AJ_7_FAN]

Thanks alot for the replies.

[Joan_Guzman]

Bro, just go and ask for the trainer and ask if ya can join.

[punchDrUnK MONK]

dont think about anything... it might get u intimidated or just mentally not feeling how u should.. and that will lead to u acting not like urself or saying things u wouldnt normally say..

go in there EXCITED. u finally get to join a gym and begin ur boxing dreams..

go in, introduce urself to the trainer, and say u wanna join up and start training
if u wanna become a boxer and spar and fight and stuff, id also get that point across from the gecko so he knows ur there to really do it, not just for fitness.

99% of gyms have a ton of ppl just there for fitness n workout reasons

[AJ_7_FAN]

I'll take that approach. I'm going to try and train as much as my schedule will allow me do to work and family obligations, but I definately am in it to compete and not just get in shape. I don't know that I can make it to the gym everynight so I am going to do the fitness half at my home and bag work and sparring at the gym. Hopefully the trainer at the gym will put me on a workout that fits that. I can probably only make it to the gym 4 maybe 5 times a week.

[Oriachim]

Do plenty of roadwork, skipping, pressups, situps, pullups ETC at home, always a good idea. If your trainers notices you're doing this, he will start to take you more seriously.

[AJ_7_FAN]

What Is Your Guys Training Schedule Like?

[Stormin' Norman]

when I first joined my gym, I was just very respectful to everyone, especially those with fast hands, and asked questions and learned as much as I could. Never, once, was I ever disrespected by any of them because I came at them kindly...Fighters by nature are not *******s, they appreciate the fact that you are there and there to learn, so they'll display their work for you on the bag or whatever to let you know what their style is about, much like an artist would show a fellow artist trainee his work or how to paint a specific way with a specific brush.


..it's all a science, a gym fighters are the experiments, the coach is the lead scientist, the other trainers are the assistant scientists, the gym is the laboratory, and the ring is the testing area of the laboratory... That sounded tight I should sig it