Thursday
Workout
-- 2x (2 min.) jump rope
-- 3x shadow boxing
-- 3x double end bag
-- 7x focus mitts
-- 7-7-7 pull-ups
-- 3 miles on treadmill @7.6, 24:05
My normal trainer has been out of town and I've been working out on my own the past four weeks. I finally got a hold of her trainer and got a session with him today. He's one of the coaches for US Men's Olympic team and has trained several golden gloves champs.
His style was a lot different, with my normal trainer we focus a lot more on fitness and the workouts seem to gas me way more, and less focus on boxing. Today we focused way more on boxing, which I like better. He constantly tied everything I was doing back to how it would apply to a fight, and to different styles of opponents.
There's a lot of new stuff for me to work on.
Shadow boxing: be very loose, shoulders relaxed, chin down, hands up. Angle body when throwing, step back and square up for lateral movement. Circle around a specific spot where imaginary opponent is standing. Mix in a lot of jabs to head and around 1/3 jabs are to body.
Double Jab, and 1-2: Bring right foot forward after first jab, so feet don't end up wide apart.
1-2-3 (or rather the 2-3 part of it): Stop shifting body backwards during 3, just throw the 3 from same position where I finish the 2.
Straight right: needs more turn over (thumb pointing to ground at end), jutt shoulder out and bring head forward so shoulder protects head from opponents left hook (just like how I protect my head/chin with left shoulder during left jab). Pivot hips, but sure keep weight balanced.
Left hook: This needs most work out of anything. It's weak. Throw right hook and feel how that feels and try to mimic that same thing with left hook. Bring elbow higher, don't follow through, but don't bring hand back; stop hand and tighten elbow and moment of impact, and bring hand right back to guard. Timing is off, need to keep loose then tighten arms at right time: moment of impact.
Right hook: Pivot body backwards (clockwise if looking down at myself from above) in preparation to throw. But don't telegraph -- keep opponent busy with jabs and other stuff so they don't see you cock back in prep. for the punch, it should just look like you are naturally standing that way.
Ducking: Don't muscle downwards, just stop flexing and left body suddenly fall. Lean forward, want head either right up against opponent, or to be standing back out of his range.
Left uppercut: Two methods: bring elbow WAY back and dig in for the punch, or rotate body away from punch, then rotate into it for power.
Right uppercut: same idea as with right hook: pivot body clockwise then dig in for the punch.
Some combos/techniques:
i]Text1-2-3: strong 2, weaker 3. Or, if opponent has guard up, use 1-2 to distract (weaker 2) and set up strong 3.
1-2-duck-2-3-2
useful for fighting a counter-puncher:
1-2 to lure his counter punch, step back w/ rear foot taking first step then bring front foot back, rotating body clockwise, when he comes forward throw strong 6
same as above, but use a double jab coming in
same as above, but throw a 3 after the 6
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