Greig's workout log

[Greig]

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

[Greig]

Tue 20/1/09

AM

1x 50 push ups


Evening Gym

2x 2 minute rounds skipping

Good Stretch

4x 2 minute rounds of 3qtr pace running (level 11 of a beep test - I don't keep up, but I keep running)

1x 50 push ups
1x 50 crunches

3x 1min 30 rounds of step up activities

2x 3 minute rounds of throwing medicine balls to partners

1x 50 crunches
1x 30 leg raises

6x 2 minute rounds of light sparring with various partners



Felt better tonight, got hit far less. Concentrating on really focusing on an opponents chest and trying to read the shots. Worked well. But light sparring is one thing, it all goes up 10 notches in the ring...

[Greig]

Wed 21/1/09

AM - 2.7 km walk


Evening - gym

3x 2 minute rounds skipping
good stretch

2x 4 big ass sprints - we sprint 100-150m, don't know exactly, then jog 50m slowly, 50m 3/4 then sprint back to where we start the jog.

Then 4 100 m sprints with 15 seconds rest in between.

VERY fucked after this, legs didn't really recover for the rest of the session.


4x 3minute heavy bag rounds with drills called out like burpees, push ups and sit-ups.

Then we did some medicine ball ab exercises with a partner.

Then 4x 2 minute rounds of focus pads with a partner.

[Greig]

Thurs 22/1/09

AM

2.7 km walk

Evening gym

2x 2minute rounds skipping, then a good stretch

Then we pretty much did partner work/technical sparring and sparring the whole session, so probably for an hour or so with a few big breaks thrown in.

Trouble was, at the end of the night I had this pain/dead feeling in my left arm. I first had it on Tuesday but didn't worry too much about it, but it was bad tonight. Driving home, my left arm was hard to lift, and the pain seemed to be emanating from the muscle or tendons just above the elbow. It would get sore on breaks, but as soon as I would start sparring it didn't really bother me. But at the end of the session it was BAD. So, I'm just going to rest it for a while and see what's what. Anyone had anything like this before?? I think it might have something to do with hooking on the bag, but I'm not sure - because I'm not aware of what caused it, just that after working it's sore...


Friday 23/1/09

AM - 3km walk

LOts of ab work.

[Greig]

Fri 23/1/09

Rest


Sat 24/1/09

5 km flat run in 27mins.

2km walk

1x60 crunches
1x60 leg raises
1x 30 crunches on each side

Sun 25/1/09

5km run with a couple of big hills in 27 minutes

1x 60 crunches
1x 60 leg raises
1x 30 crunches on each side

[sourpuss]

What's a beep test?

[Greig]

It's where you have to run between two points and get to the other side before you hear a beep. It gets progressively faster as you go.

Multi-stage fitness test - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia