As I have made pretty clear on here, I have been bitten by the boxing bug. Had it just been about getting fit and losing weight, then maybe by now I would be doing something else.
However I really want to get a match and fight. No, I don't want to fight, I need to fight.
My coach John has put in all sorts of time and effort with me and has really brought me on. However there is only so much he can do. I have to supply the willpower and effort myself. I have reached a certain level in my boxing. I am handy enough to hold my own in with some seasoned amateurs and on one memorable occasion a pro but now I need to push on a level.
When I strated boxing, I wanted to fight to show people what I can do, to stick a metaphorical two fingers up to the world. That still holds true but it is now less about that then it is about me pushing myself beyond what I think I can do and finding out what I really can do. I don't wish to sound arrogant but most people will never do what I have, they'll never know the satisfaction of climing into the ring and facing another man in combat like that. There'll be no teammates, no-one to back me up. It'll be down to how I prepare, how I train and hard I push myself. I don't want to stop training when it's hard, when the sweat is dripping off me and my nose is bleeding. I don't want to stop when I am short of breath or my muscles ache. I certainly do not want to stop when I get frustrated that I can't get that one move or punch right.
I want to push through that. I need to be the best I can possibly be when I get in the ring, for both myself and for John and for those watching. I won't do that by only putting in 75% effort. I'll get that by putting 110% (yes, I know that's not mathematically possible, but you get my point!). I don't mind losing so much as I mind losing by not being my absolute phyiscal and mental peak. The nosebleeds, bruises and pain and sweat that I have to go through on the way are like badges of honour, or ways of paying for the glory I know I'll feel when I step through the ropes and face my opponent.
I found a music video that more or less sums up how I feel.
So to detail how I am going to obtain that? I'll train at the boxing gym with John at least 3 times a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. In addition to that I'll go to this gym to use their weights machines to tone up as well as hit their running machines to get my fitness up that extra notch. I figure that 30 minutes on the treadmill @ 9 mph, followed by 30 minutes on the weight machines (though I have zero idea how to use almost all of them!), followed by another 30 minutes on the treadmill and do that on a Saturday and a Sunday. That should do me, unless of you out there have any pointers?
Anyhow, I need to get myself over to Strood to attend said training. It doesn't start until 1900 but if it started earlier I would still so be there.
:) !!!!
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