I can sort of relate to your dilema. I have found it is very difficult to work both fitness and skill well even when you can get to a boxing gym often.
My last gym was fairly casual in when we would arrive to training and the coaches would randomly give us pointers when they felt like it.
I found that randomness terrible for planning any kind of routine. Sometimes I would have too many hard nights in a row because I would kill myself on the bag etc and then have hard padwork from one particular caoch offered to me.
He would always offer to help when he saw I'd been thrashing myself because he was impressed by that but then i didn't really get enough recovery between these sessions to improve my conditioning.
He would get me to do pad work towards the end of the night when I was already well past warmed up and tired too so it didn't even really train my maximum explosiveness either.
Another coach would talk so much that I would get cold listening to him. If i was warmed up before we began i was shivering once we were into the session because the gym doesn't have heating and i'd sweat during the warm up.
What made it worse was the randomness of the coaching sessions meant i got the feeling he was basing what he felt i needed to know on observations made briefly months ago and wasn't really 100 % aware of where I was up to at the time he was talking to me.
It also meant he didn't know if he'd shown me something before so when things became repetitive and i wasn't improving something the way he might have suspected there was no further investigation into what else we might do to tackle the problem in another way or something else that needed strengthening in order for me to be able to do what he was asking. Plus I just got stale.
Randomness is really too much to deal with in training i think but if you know what to expect from your two gym sessions a week you can plan to make the best possible use of that time.
I'd try to get a feel of what type of gym sessions these typically are. Also maybe ask the coach if there's something simple he thinks you understand well enough to practice at home alone and explain your financial situation to him. If he is impressed by your eagerness and notices you trying he is more likely to try to develop you in sparring when he feels you are ready.
Once you have that information come back here and post it and you may be able to get a plan going for what you can do for your conditioning which will help you improve as much as possible.
I'd also let him know how you feel about the sparring and that you are eager to get back in there and overcome your fear of it as soon as he thinks you are ready.
I stress that point because sometimes a coach will have one or two things for you to learn before you go back in there which will make sparring so much easier for you it is worth being patient and developing yourself for another month or two outside the ring.
If he feels you are patient enough to wait he's more likely to feel you're going to stick around a while and that could work in your favour too.
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