A hard day at the office !

Sunday Funday has been again and week 4 is complete.

As always Sundays session was the toughest, in more ways than one !

Decided to go for a very gentle 20 minute jog this morning, as last week I felt very stiff by the time I went to session at 10AM, as I stat work most days at 6 am I wake up very early and when I sit about till 10, I find it hard to get myself moving, so decided to try out this new plan, it seemed to work, so will stick with it.

Todays session started of with half of us going for one of Ben's 'gentle' jogs, which was nothing like the one I had done at 7 this morning.

Ben's involved team hill sprints and carrying a partner up a hill on your back, before 4 sets of hill sprints, then sending us off on a hilly route which took us back to the gym, as I say felt really good on the runs and you can see a huge improvement in everyones fitness.

This as far as my story was concerned was where the good news ended !

Sparring, as usual on Sunday, was up next and I was put in against Craig and Miles, using the round robin system again, both of whom have been getting on really well and  I knew I was in for a tough time, this week the only limits we had was no shots to the body.

Now I don't really know the reasons for this, but I guess it can be expected during the 10 weeks, as we are still all just learning, but I  had a nightmare, it was like I had never been shown anything about boxing, I just couldn't seem to focus, move, punch or avoid punches, which are all quite important to boxing.

Miles in particular, looked although he was moving a lot better than last week, when we were sparring and he certainly hit me a lot more, the 2 x 2 minute rounds, seemed to go on forever.
In my head I knew it was just one of those days, which happen when your training or learning new skills, but it really deflated me, but as I say these days happen, so just need to refocus and get back on it on Tuesday, the fact I haven't lost any weight for two weeks either didn't help, as I feel I need to lose 5 kg, which should be easy for me, and will help me become faster and more mobile in the ring, without losing any power.

After the sparring, we did some bag and sprinting work in pairs, one person doing bag work, while the other sprinted round the gym (about 200meters).
Lastly Ben took us through an ab based workout, which seemed to last an eternity and judging by the groans coming from some of the other guys, I wasn't the only one who was feeling it.

So I have a few things to focus on and get sorted before the start of next week, as much as I felt really gutted about today, I know this will probably happen again, but everytime I have a bad day, I just need to learn from it, forget about it and move on to the next session, stronger and better for it.

Bring on Tuesday, but not more of the same !


Craig :-)