Week Three

This week I managed to make it to both sessions as I had no important things preventing me from going. On the Tuesday session, we focussed on technique, so we did some shadow boxing again but this time focusing on feints and defensive manoeuvres and how to add them into our combinations. When we were told to do freestyle, I found myself doing the same kind of feints or defensive movements and must remind myself to try something else with the combinations. We were told to keep it slow as this is how we improve our technique and once we get better at it then we can think of adding speed or power. We then went on to bags to practice this with the gloves on and went between being told what combinations to do and freestyle manoeuvres but as I got more tired, I ended up doing the same thing over again. We did circuit training mostly working out the core and other muscle groups to be found in boxing. Some of the exercises included Russian twists, medicine ball slam downs, squats, and weighted and unweighted shadowboxing.

On the Thursday session, it was back to doing fitness for the first half of the session then afterwards we had the option of sparring or bag work. It was the exercise we did the week before where we do a minute on bags and then a minute of burpees. It was like the last time I just focused on what I was doing trying to keep my rhythm and keep going. I should’ve kept track of how many burpees I was doing, and I plan on doing that the next time we do this exercise. When the option came for sparring or bags, I chose bags as I don’t believe I am anywhere near close enough to be able to spar with the people in the club but by the end of the year, I should be able to spar and at least get some hits in as that is a goal of mine. The reason we did fitness first was to remind us that we need to keep our arms up even if we’re tired as the opponent can finish the fight quickly if your guard is down and they get a lucky hit. I saw a few of the other lads get hit because they dropped their hands for just a second. I stuck to my bag work working on the basics and trying to implement different feints and defensive moves into my work.