Sunday 18/1/09- not much but started doing some reflex work which I've never done much of before. Basically started throwing a bouncy Spalding ball against a wall in my room very hard and fast, trying to catch it clean each time. Then I tried throwing the ball into the 90 degree groove where two walls meet which is good because you're never sure quite what angle it would come back at. Finally I got my girlfriend to throw the ball at me as hard as she could while I would try to catch it in my boxing stance, on my toes. It's good, because she's not a very good shot, so some were at my face, some my body, some over my head. I would stay on the toes and try and get as close to her as possible - got a couple of nice red marks around the rib cage.

I felt this was really starting to sharpen me up. I also focused really hard on not taking my eyes off the ball, because that's a big part of my problem in the ring. Pretty good, non physically demanding session.

Monday 19/1/09

AM

3km walk

1x 50 push ups
1x 50 crunches
1x 50 leg raises

Evening Gym

2x 2minute rounds skipping

Good stretch

2.7 km run in 12 minutes 4 seconds. Was pretty gutted that I didn't at least match the 11.58 of last Wed, because I thought I was going ok. Could have been a) the weather was a bit warmer today or b) last time I had people to catch to keep me motivated, tonight the nearest guy in front of me was too far ahead. Finished 13th out of 20 blokes.

4x 3 minute rounds with large round pad and partner. Swapped after each round so only did two rounds, but they were demanding with sprints, push ups and burpees called during the rounds which you had to do even when you were holding the pad.

4x 3 minute rounds of focus pads with a partner. We learned a couple of new combinations with slips which were quite tricky and took a while to master.

1x 20 bicep curls with 10kg dumbell
1x 20 shoulder presses with 10kg dumbell