Monday 6th August

Cycled to boxing training. Also brought everything I needed to swim afterwards ......... except my bathers! My ditzyness is forever sabotaging my efforts!!!

So boxing training:

Stretch whole body
Rounds all 2 mins with 30 secs break
4 rounds shadow
6 rounds floor to ceiling ball
6 rounds bag
Another whole body stretch with a little resistance training in between stretches -
abs exercises - 4 sets on mat, 2 sets using roman chair, andback weights - 3 sets each of back dumbell exercises and chin ups.
cross ring 4 times balancing on medicine balls - a bit unco after not doing it for a week.

I wore a knee brace while training tonight and the knee was OK.

I did make it my goal not to be so heavy on my front foot though which helped and maybe stretching before starting slightly loosens up those muscles and/or ligaments which might be pulling on the knee.

I also made a conscious effort to keep my punches working on one level and not rising at the end of each punch - tried to stop hopping around like a jack rabbit basically!

I wasn't as fluent on the bag as I'd like since this still takes a bit of concentration. I might need to focus on that for a while to make it automatic.

Cycled home

Thought about doing time on the windtrainer but by the time I get home tonight (posting from uni as had 5 min job to do on the way home) my flatmates will be in bed and i don't want to wake them up with the noise.

It's probably best to let the knee have one more easy day anyway.