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How many times a week are you guys able to hit the boxing gym. I quit two years due to school, work, lack of ability to land fights (being 18+ and novice), and the old wife was always bitching that I was never home. I went to some local fights this past weekend and I just can't stay away, I miss the training. My wife recently switched majors and now will be having night classes so I am thinking about hitting the old gym again for about 2 hrs. 3 nights a week, is that a decent amount of time to work on basics again. some real input please, non of the smartass stuff.
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Your still new man, 4 days Hour and a half at tops. While I always jump right back into the sparring I would recommend that you get your muscles tuned to the movements again, the proper movements before deciding to spar. Stay off of the heavybags for the first couple of days and just work the floor. Shadow boxing is an important step in the process of learning to fight, but it must be done properly. Practice it wrong and you will execute it wrong in the heat of battle, this can get you hurt. Take the time to learn a properly stiff jab and it will open doors for you. Learning that jab can be a difficult task yet easily walking through that door is sooooo easy. The jab is the key, aswell as always looking for something coming back and about a million other things could be stated as keys. But it all starts with jab..............Rockin'
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Thanks for the input. I never stopped totally, I have always been hitting the heavybag and double end bag at home.Originally posted by Rockin' View PostYour still new man, 4 days Hour and a half at tops. While I always jump right back into the sparring I would recommend that you get your muscles tuned to the movements again, the proper movements before deciding to spar. Stay off of the heavybags for the first couple of days and just work the floor. Shadow boxing is an important step in the process of learning to fight, but it must be done properly. Practice it wrong and you will execute it wrong in the heat of battle, this can get you hurt. Take the time to learn a properly stiff jab and it will open doors for you. Learning that jab can be a difficult task yet easily walking through that door is sooooo easy. The jab is the key, aswell as always looking for something coming back and about a million other things could be stated as keys. But it all starts with jab..............Rockin'Comment
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well the double end bag will keep your awareness and quickness up at least. Id also agree on doing alot of shadowboxing, maybe do some jump rope and get your coordination up too. Maybe even just drill spar with someone and work on certain things you may have forgotten or never learned.Comment
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Good ideas, thanksComment
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I alternate one day at the boxing gym with one day at the weightlifting gym 5-6 days a week.....Comment
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Too much weightlifting, and not enough boxing, if you're serious about boxing.Originally posted by yrrej View PostComment
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This year I've had a lot of ups and downs.
On this latest 'comeback' I've been pretty successful.
The first step was to get back in the gym at least once a week, with a short term goal of 4 times a week.
At the same time I have been getting back on my road work- again, starting slow with 1 time a week, working up to 3 or 4 times a week as my legs permit (backing off some weeks if my legs are particularly sore).
My work in the gym is best characterized as "intense".
I try not to take off too many rounds or waste any time while in the gym- if I'm wrapping up that's one thing, but never miss a round from fatigue, on the contrary in-between a lot of my warm up rounds I do calisthenics like pushups, squats, and burpees.
I keep my bag work intense- comboing up when i'm not working on power, never going more than a 3-count without throwing something; working different strategies, angles, and head movement with the bag.
I try to mix up different stuff on different days so the workouts don't get stale- some days more floor work, some days footwork drills, some days super hard with a weight vest, still other days i take it a little easy so i can work on technique and not risk burnout.
A lot of times I'm out of there in an hour, hour and a half, barely able to carry my bag out to the car.
My roadwork varies either around 3 miles in 30 min or 6 miles in an hour. I sprint the hills during my run and try to push the pace when i'm not cramping up or my legs aren't giving me hell. I have leg problems so unfortunately I sometimes have to take the occasional day off- at 29years old i'm no spring chicken. hehe
EDIT: no freeweight days yet, but maybe once I've adjusted to my current routine.Last edited by Pork Chop; 11-14-2006, 11:05 AM.Comment
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You got some good advice from a few people here. Even though theres no equivalent to sparring, theres many ways to keep your body in shape enough to be fairly ready when that time comes.
I work out 5 days a week. Usually 2 days in the boxing gym sparring and doing floor work. The other 3 days I go to my local gym and lift weights, run, swim, shadowbox and do calisthenics. I would go to the boxing gym 5 days a week if they had weights and a swimming pool, but they have some b.s., rusty old dumbbells and broken down benches and damn sure no swimming pool.Comment
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Yeah, I love swimming I used to swim in the pool at my university 4x a week. This coming semester I took a swimming class as a way to make sure I start doing it again. There is also a huge weightlifting room but I have never used it, opting to stick with pushup, dips, and chin/pull ups instead.Originally posted by Scrappy Diggs View PostComment
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