Thanks for the tips guys. I thought 26 was supposed to be too old to do any serious training. I guess I should stop hanging around with my 17 year old nephews, they make me feel like an old man :

I have 17 yr. old a nephew who is about 190 lbs and on the football team, and his bench max is 285, same as mine was when I was his age. He really wants to get into boxing with me. Mostly he just wants to box against me, you know, the allure of knocking out your uncle LOL... He works as a lifeguard too. He's really ripped, no body fat and big muscles. I think he could take me out in a boxing match pretty easily even though I know I can hit harder than him (we have punched each other in the stomach a few times to see who can take it... I am known for being able to take a punch to the stomach. In fact I once knew a guy who won the Golden Gloves that hit me in the stomach a few times and said I was pretty tough, but that's another story... BJ Florez, in case anyone knows him, awesome guy...)

I also have another 17 year old nephew who also wants to spar with us. I had him over tonight to hit the bag a little and he seems to be pretty quick. He's kinda skinny but he's a swimmer and in good shape. He's a little crazy, he fights his friends bare-fisted sometimes just for fun, and sometimes they fight with some of those stupid "Hulk Hands" toys, the foam fists you put your hand inside that are supposed to look like the Hulk's fists. He has knocked a couple of his friends out cold while goofing around, he's kinda the champ among his dumb friends.

Anyway my idea is maybe use these 2 to help me stay motivated and train. I was thinking of getting some sparring gloves and a pair of really protective boxing helmets, like the ones that have a bar across the front of the face, so nobody breaks their nose or anything. I also would make them get their own mouth guards and wear them. I can't have these guys breaking their noses and breaking teeth, their parents would never let them spar with me again. Anyways maybe we could hold our own little fight club in the backyard . Does this sound like a good idea? My nephews are really stoked about it.