Advice

[awesome]

Thanks for the advice.

As far as diet goes, I've been making sure that I only eat what is good for me. Someone told me that some people eat to live while others live to eat. I eat to live.

The gym I'm going to is supposedly a good one in the area. It offered different programs such as one year non competitive to three years competitive. I signed up for one year competitive. I wanted to get a feel for it before I made a committment for three years.

You have to complete 42 beginner classes before moving up. You learn all the basics from boxing stance to punch combinations. For warm up you run one mile which is 24 laps around the gym. It's pretty much repitition, coordination and skill development. The class after that focuses on eye and hand coordination, learning drills with training aids, shadowboxing, routines for amateur boxing, rope jumping, speed bags, heavy bag, light contact drills. And once that is completed you then start ring introduction, light sparring and competitive sparring.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

interesting set-up. never heard of that before.

[Chris Nagel]

That's different, has the gym produced any fighters? It might help to have a notebook and keep track of all of the work that you're doing.

[awesome]

I know the owner trains a kid who turned pro last year and is currently undefeated. We always learn a new punch combination every class so I try to keep track of that. Pretty much the first 30 minutes of class focuses on fitness while the last hour focuses on punch combinations and technique.

[wesrman]

I know the owner trains a kid who turned pro last year and is currently undefeated. We always learn a new punch combination every class so I try to keep track of that. Pretty much the first 30 minutes of class focuses on fitness while the last hour focuses on punch combinations and technique.

Weird. Im not a boxer, but i would think you would want to work more on technique when you're fresh and on conditioning afterwards.

[awesome]

I believe this class is designed to get you into boxing shape while learning technique. The next class you'll focus only on technique. I'll see how it goes.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I know the owner trains a kid who turned pro last year and is currently undefeated. We always learn a new punch combination every class so I try to keep track of that. Pretty much the first 30 minutes of class focuses on fitness while the last hour focuses on punch combinations and technique.

Weird. Im not a boxer, but i would think you would want to work more on technique when you're fresh and on conditioning afterwards.

Pretty much every gym I've been to works back to front like that.
It's ok for fitness BUT you have to be very careful not to get in to bad habits through fatigue. So I does as I'm told in class. If I'm working in the gym on my own or at home I switch to what I (and prevailing sports science and logic) consider to be more efficient use of my time.

Hey Awesome, out of curiosity would you mind continuing to post on your progress perhaps starting a training log here at Saddo's?

[Scrap]

Missy great post, Basic common sense

[awesome]

I know the owner trains a kid who turned pro last year and is currently undefeated. We always learn a new punch combination every class so I try to keep track of that. Pretty much the first 30 minutes of class focuses on fitness while the last hour focuses on punch combinations and technique.

Weird. Im not a boxer, but i would think you would want to work more on technique when you're fresh and on conditioning afterwards.

Pretty much every gym I've been to works back to front like that.
It's ok for fitness BUT you have to be very careful not to get in to bad habits through fatigue. So I does as I'm told in class. If I'm working in the gym on my own or at home I switch to what I (and prevailing sports science and logic) consider to be more efficient use of my time.

Hey Awesome, out of curiosity would you mind continuing to post on your progress perhaps starting a training log here at Saddo's?

I will start a training log..thanks for the replies