First smoker prep and PTs - fighters only

[xophe]

Sorry, but I don't wanna hear any bull**** on what you "think" if you've never fought, its useless and this is a serious change in my life that I won't predicate on untested opinions. I've seen enough flame threads on painting the bike shed, so apologies for my bluntness.

Coming off an injury, I'm coming back to train for my first smoker. I'm 25, stand at 135, and will try to fight at 125. So I'm middle aged in this world.

I train at a regular gym (not boxing) because they do light sparring in classes -- apparently all the actual boxing gyms have turned into cardio workouts for the $$$. The only gym worth its salt (so I hear) is King's, but that's far and away another story, and I have a day job...

So I'm considering a personal trainer. These guys charge $100/hr standard, and before you tell me its worthless, the guy I tried out does amateur fighting and has a few fighters -- and there's tons of drills you can't do alone. I wouldn't be able to afford more than 1 session a week, but it'll keep me sharp and give me good pointers so I don't get destroyed in my first fight.

I'm pretty serious about this. Moved into a cheaper place to train, cut down my hours at work to something reasonable, and stopped drinking entirely (average 15-20 drinks a week to zero).

Appreciate sincere thoughts.

[nivek535]

stick to golfing

[_original_]

So you'd be roughly paying 400/month for a only 4 hours of coaching? That's insane, you might not want to hear this but your best bet is to join an actual boxing gym, even if it's this 'King's' you speak of and you have a long commute. I was in a somewhat similar situation when I split up with my coach and I joined a boxing gym 1 and a half hour away. However, it's your money and it's your decision of coarse but I'm curious if you have considered relocating to be closer to a better boxing gym?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I would join a real gym, and not some high priced trainer..

Doing drills is fine to learn the sport and lose some weight, keep fit, etc..
But if your actually going to compete, you need to train with others that compete, and need to get in some good sparring.. Just doing drills won't adequately prepare you for an official fight,, speed bags, mitts, heavy bags don't punch back, your opponent will and you need to be ready for how to deal with that.. Only sparring gets you prepared for that..

If you can afford the 100$ an hour for the trainer, then you can spend the gas money to drive to an actual boxing gym and get the proper training and sparring

[_original_]

when I was never training for those years as an amateur do you know how much it cost me? $10 a year at a boxing gym(I believe they charge 40-50 a month now). And I didn't even have to pay that as I was never fighting right off the bat and never let up with it. I had great coahes and I'll bet that they knew multiple times more about the sport that your premadonna $100 an hour guy.

LMFAO, $100 an hour. You got Barry training you or something?

Find a gym. I drove over an hour, each way, each day when I wasn't training.....

lmao

For real, that's a ridiculous amount of money unless you have the spirits of Angelo Dundee and Cus D'amato training you for that hour. 30-50 bucks/month seems to be the norm in most gyms today, and quite a few gyms offer discounts for students.

I would join a real gym, and not some high priced trainer..

Doing drills is fine to learn the sport and lose some weight, keep fit, etc..
But if your actually going to compete, you need to train with others that compete, and need to get in some good sparring.. Just doing drills won't adequately prepare you for an official fight,, speed bags, mitts, heavy bags don't punch back, your opponent will and you need to be ready for how to deal with that.. Only sparring gets you prepared for that..

If you can afford the 100$ an hour for the trainer, then you can spend the gas money to drive to an actual boxing gym and get the proper training and sparring

Exactly.

[Half_Step]

it was smart to ask advice of fighters only because only a non fighter would be ****** enough to pay 100/hr for a trainer

[jas]

just learn stuff yourself, dont pay someone

[New England]

i will echo the sentiments of others:


100 an hour?

what on earth could he possibly be doing for you that is worth that much money?

surely you could drive to your other gym [kings,] for less. there will be actual fighters there, sparring, a proper gym, etc.



my advice for training with your new "personal trainer" is: don't waste your money.

[nivek535]

it was smart to ask advice of fighters only because only a non fighter would be ****** enough to pay 100/hr for a trainer

ahaha i really hope that was sarcasm. i cant really tell over plain text.

just learn stuff yourself, dont pay someone

agree.. poor man's sport for a reason.

[Soju]

A session or two a week will not prepare you anyway. You need to be sparring regularly.


Posted from Boxingscene.com App for Android