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Hey guys,
I just have a quick question for you all. What do you do when you get unmotivated. I mean...you put it the work, you train hard, but not much happens...would it be wise of me to change to a bigger gym? take a month off and work on my cardio and strength? At the beggining I had all the heart in the worl...but lately I just feel like giving up...Does this happen to any of you?
Thanks for your input.
Sin
WHATS really going on with you is the question? :hair_up: Thats a question you must find down within yourself you feel me? whats your MOTIVATION/DESIRE/ GOAL??Quote:
Originally Posted by sinity
Ya I know..I just wanted to know if anyone else had a similar experience..I am coming to the conclusion that maybe I just have no tallent for boxing, and as much as I love the sport..realising I suck at it is tough...I will keep looking inside myself tho..I do have a history of depression so .....oh well...I'll be ok tho.
Thanks for responding.
Sin
its near on impossible to suck at a sport is you wanna do it.
go to a bigger gym or spar with different people in the gym you are currently in.
sparring the same peopel isnt going to do much, you need to mix it up
boxing is a generally fun sport because theres alot of hands on attached to it.. if the problem is that you find yourself getting ready to go to the gym and you just dont feel like it then maybe you need to find some confidence also... try to gain confidence when you spar. and if you suck as you say you do theres motivation there no one inherits bad skills you just have to build them use that as motivation to WIN!
try a different profession.
Bouncer- I'm not a pro boxer. :fyou: :fyou: :fyou:
profession may not be literal... besides jsut replace that work with hobby and there ya go...
Mate if you want it enough then you will get back into training. I dont have a boxing gym where i live so i have to train at home. You have no idea how good you have it to have a gym. It takes a whole lot more discipline to train at home then a gym. Its all about pushing yourself to do it, one day if you think i dont feel like doing this push yourself to do it. You make your own motivation, once you get into it you will feel motivated to keep doing it. Every time i hit the heavybag and realise im hitting harder and faster and my stamina is going up i cant wait to get back out there coz results are showing.
I have the same feeling every 3 or 4 months for some reason. I just work through it cos i know i will regain the motivation. Try touch sparring to gain confidence. Also try to watch some classic fights like Leornard/Duran/Hagler.
Sin, All the things you mentioned can help.
taking a week off can help - just go off and do something else, go to a club, go drinking, go to a couple of movies- just do stuff you don't often get teh chance to do. It can be hard to keep on training day in day out especially if you don't have a fight date to work towards.
Just think of it as taking some R&R to let your mind and body relax before starting up again.
Watching classic fights also helps get the fire back, especially if it's your favourite fighter. Ask your trainer what he thinks you need to improve one. Having someone you respect give positive feedback can be a great motivator.
As for what some of the others have said-only YOU know if the fight game is for you, when you are down just accept it as part of you, and you know you will come up again the on the other side of the depression, people just saying get over it don't know shit. ;)
yeah got that same thing some times,
i just take a week off and just freakin relax, just like missy said,
you'll see next week you cant wait to be back in the gym,
but dont do it every week ;)
and sometimes when i dont feel like going (hard day @ work, late at the club last night or for some reason)
i know i'll feel different when i'm at the gym, then i'll be glad i went anyway, so i just go and realise i was right, like always ;)
Bang on, bouncer can shut the fuck up, 1 post and thats what he gives u, anyways everyone loses motivation at some point! dont do it all the time, take a break like missy said and try and psyche yourself up for it, dont worry bout it either, or youll bum urself out, take it easy and good luck!
Well I did get my groove back. What I do when I get into a funk is watch boxing, and read up on boxing. I just find the mental aspect of boxing the most challenging....A mental break is good ...
Thanks for the kind words Missy...
I've been unmotivated plenty of times. If you're out there training, and all you can think of is being the best, being in great shape, you'll do fine. But if all you can think about is what you're going to have for dinner when you're done training, or what TV show you're going to watch, it gets easy to slack off and become lazy. It's all in the mind. :)
just take a break have fun for a week, gonna try train for 3 weeks on and then one week off routine
I agree with Missy, if you loosing some of that boxing-jive you need to loosen up. Training can be a real grind at times, that's why there is something called "fun" Go clubbing, grab some buds, some drinks and just lose yourself. The best antidote for the blues is all-out fun!
As for motivation, look up the great fighters. Last time I looked, I got to understand pugs that I previously knew little about, got to know what kind of school of hard knocks they went through. There's so many larger-than-life folks out there, all you gotta do is look. And my god, if you can't find inspiration in the living, how the hell can you be inspired about life.
Rocky Marciano, Julio Cezar Chavez, Jersey Joe Walcott are the best in my book.
I wouldn't go as far as to say drop it, but if there's something that you'd love to do more, go for it. For me there's nothing more fun that to slip on a pair a gloves, it makes me feel like a different person, and boxing is where I find my groove. It could be your gym, you if all else fails you can check out other gyms to find a fit. Get a coach that'll motivate you, show you the ropes, and can show you what you got and what ya gotta do.
Hows the atmosphere at the gym, (sparring partners, skull practice, Equipment)
Rocky,
thanks for the great advice! I actually started rading George Foreman's biography and it's pretty cool. Helps me get inside a boxer's mind. I know Jane Couch wrote her autobiography so that will be next on my list. My favorite part about boxing is the psychology behing it..
My gym is actually pretty cool. My tainer is pretty well known in the bizz and is a great teacher. I just started sparring and that alone is getting me motivated. I did pretty good according to him eventhough I missed alot cuz the guy I was sparring was so good a ducking and weaving. I can't wait to get back in the ring, and sharpen my skills...
Thanks to everyone else about their input. I know that at a certain point every athlete must have moments of dissapointment, lack of motivation...but for some reason...we just don't quit...
Sin
Good luck with that, and let the good times roll, sparring is a big turning point as you get a fist-full of action, don't let the petty stuff get ya down, just keep your guard up, and listen to your trainer, and showthem that you can be boss.
If you ever get unmotivated, as I said before, look up the people who make sport fun. George Foreman is a neat fella and still has plenty of sass and charisma is his old age. I hear he's gone back into boxing to show his kids that anything's possibal, and I'd like to check out the old pug's upcoming bouts, just to see if he can still make a big impression.
If ya got any questions, you know where to shoot,
-Regards, Rocky
I was wondeing from the top if you were discouraged because sparring wasn't going well, or if you hadn't sparred yet because sometimes that will start you thinking its because you aren't goo enough and everyone else sees it. Glad the sparring went well. As to the missing of punches- well, I'm assuming you had never sparred prior to that?- that is typical of nearly everybody's fist few times in the ring. You've been hitting the heavy bag but it doesn't have a brain and its isn't plotting to hirt back;. Did you find your self often too far away so that punches landed with nothing on them, or so close you had no room and smothered your own blows? Shorten up your stance a bit, my friend, and when you hit the heavy bag concentrate on snapping your punches, not rolling into them. Don't hit the double-end bag unless its coming towards you, and when shadow boxing watch the mirror being alert to things that might telegraph your punches. Having a new awareness and focus on familiar things makes you diligent and landing a couple cllean on a guy you couldn't hit last week is lways ggod for the heart
i know i dont go to a gym and what not but normaly wen i loose intrest(witch iz neva :Dlol)
i would watch a rocky film normaly 1,2,3 or 4
Greynotsoold,
Thanks for the advice. I had lost motivation cuz I felt stagnated. Now that I managed to built up my cardio I'm starting to spar which is real cool. The guy I was sparring is much better then me and was willing to be my mooving target and work with me.He kept ducking and rolling. I did mannage a couple of body shots otherwise I just kept jabbing and working in the right...Hey! when in doupt just jab,jab,jab right? As my coach said I just need to get the confidence up there, and work on my timming which was off...I can not wait to get back in...my coach said i did pretty well tho... :appl: :excited:I can't wait until I get better and start landing some ...
Sin
im gonna start boxing soon,and im worried im going to be going through the same problems as you did as i also have depression problems. and sadly i just cant see myself turning it around like you did. hopefully i dont though cuz i love boxing and i hope to spend the rest of my life being a part of it.
Hey Chico don't worry about depression workin out will help it trust me i have such bad depression that i was on loads of meds for it :banghead: but when i started boxing and workin out every day :weightlifter: my depression started to lession and i started taking less and less meds tell now im only on 60mg a day witch is about 600 mg less then before. but i found out that if i stop and just sit around and be lazy and not have fun or work out the depression comes back full on. so if you think the depression will cause you problems i hope this helpes a little bit.
boxing is a perfect cure for depression. excersize releases endorphins, the bodys happy hormones.
the more you excersize the more of these bitches your gonna produce and the happier your gonna get. i dont know about you, but when i go to boxing i kill myself and feel great (but achy) the next day.
like today i got this buzz going on, and yesterda i worked so hard i vomited!
Getting discouraged is almost daily in boxing; she ias a demanding jealous bich and it can never be good enough to please. But it is something worthwhile and special to even have the courage and the opportuinity to try; I am sure that a vast majority on this ste know what I mean , There are boxers and there are humans and , damn, are they missing out! Every day in the gym has its bits and pieces of diappointment- if you are very attuned to it, evry critical and demanding, there will always be something, even on those red-letter days that you feel as if you could fly. you can always come back tomorrow and try again, unless of course you come to realize that it just ain't your true calling; this isn't for everyone and there are precious few Roinsons out there. But if/when you hang 'em up you still tried- you had to be budgeoned out of what most fear to even try. Now, back in the days of fairly old yore, I suffered a pretty good hernia and a back injury. I was sore a few days but generally ignored it and went on with things. That was easy to do because I was in shape- 6'3", walking around @183- ad pain goes away. Ten years or so down the road and I can't hit the bags much ;my left shoulder ain't what it was, the back aches and the hernia don't help. So by now- a couple weeks ao I can barely move I'm sore and stiff all the time. A friend gets on me about it ad you know how when that spirit rises up...He gets me doing a variety of stretching exercises and I feel great . The only day I've felt bad since then was when when we didn't exercise. Doing pushups- building some strength back in the shoulder- and another day or two and 'll be hitting my chinups unassist, even if it is onlya couple of them. . It'll take longer than before to get my punches sharp but it'll come... The whole point of this being don't let discouragement throttle you until it becomes depression and takes your wind. If what happened in the gym ain't as you had hoped, why? Start there then fixit then fight it. Because it isn't about winning its about the fight, my friends ;)