Friday
Weight: 160lbs
Workout
-- 2x jump rope
-- -- right after jump rope, ~12 reps of pushups where one arm is on a medicine ball, then when you push up, roll med ball to other hand, put that hand on the med ball and do the next push-up.
-- -- right after the push-ups do mountain climbers, where it's just like the mountain climber push-ups, but you don't do pushups, just put your feet on these gliders on a smooth mat, and do that mountain climbing motion for 35 seconds straight, then 40 seconds the second round
-- -- (Not sure I made this clear, but my workouts always start with 3 minute rounds of jump rope, the last 30 seconds i switch to double-unders, and after the 3 minutes are up I do some kind of pushup and then some kind of core exercise, trainer always switches that up. That gets repeated 2 times).
-- 2x maize bag (bag that hangs from chain like a pendulum, and you practice slips and ducks while it swings around)
-- 2x some kind of bag i forgot the name of, the stick bag? It stands up on a beam placed in the ground and it wobbles around a lot when you hit it. similar to double end bag in that you practice timing and evasion.
-- ~6 rounds focus mitts
-- new type of leg raises: get in chin-up position, but at the top of the rep, hold that position so your chin is up above the bar, and from there do 10 leg raises
-- oblique workout (hands behind head, butt resting on half-bubble ball, crunch and twist so right elbow and left knee touch. 15x then switch and do 15x on other side (left elbow to right knee)
-- the leg raises and obliques are done in rounds, so 10 raises, 30 oblique things, rest, then repeat
-- stretch
Awwww yeah! I used sudafed starting last night (the kind you have to show ID for, i heard the other kind doesn't do shit), and I timed it so 2 hours before my workout i took a dose of the Sudafed and 2 advil. I felt great during the workout, and feel great now (just got back from gym). Nose still a little stuffy, but I don't mind taking it easy for the next few days till I get better.
The two hour workout on Wednesday really helped my hooks and combos. I'm still pretty much slow & sloppy as shit compared to any decent boxer, but for someone who's 4 weeks into training, pretty good. My double jab has improved, a couple of times the snap on the focus mitts from my jabs were as loud as my straight rights, and even on the second jab of the double jabs, which is encouraging because I used to have no power at all when the jabs were doubled up.
I ordered the calipers from Amazon, should have them next week. To work on:
practice combos more
run 3 miles outdoor at least once before next Friday (if I recover from cold/flu)
maize bag; work punches into that
maize bag; work pivots into that
work on uppercuts (hooks need work too, but my hooks have progressed more than uppercuts so far)
better timing on double left hooks
throw more right hooks, more right uppercuts
get more sleep
