Tuesday again and my calf muscles have still not recovered from Sunday Funday, even some foam rolling and massage yesterday didn't help them, and having spoke to some of the other guys I was not alone.
I did still mange to make up and put myself through a Tabata style workout yesterday
For those that don't know, here is an explanation of Tabata workouts, which was named after a Japanese professor (Professor Tabata)
Tabata workouts are basically doing 1 exercise, completing as many repetitions as you can, using the work to rest ratio of 20seconds/10 seconds for 8 rounds, so 4 minutes in total. Sounds easy eh ! Believe me it is anything but easy if done correctly, and due to the fast workrate and short rest, I am expecting these workouts to help my fitness, especially for my actual fight.
Here is a good article on it
http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance/the_tabata_method
I chose 7 exercises, which with a minutes rest in between each exercise, took all of 35 minutes, but i looked like i had been training for over an hour, I crawled out the gym.
As I mentioned before my calf's have been stiff since Sunday, which made this mornings spin class, 'interesting' shall we say, but I got through it, then plenty rest and good nutritious food today before tonight's boxing session.
Was looking forward to tonight's session, as my new boxing boots arrived yesterday and was looking forward to see what, if any, difference I would notice.
As Ben commented, 'if nothing else I look as though I know what I'm doing'
I was worried as they were boots, I would feel a bit restricted in them, but as they are so light, I didn't even feel them, and I'm sure being so light, made a difference to my endurance, keeping me lighter on my feet for longer.
Tonights session was, as always not easy, some of the guys got a chance to do some more sparring, while the rest of us did the following session.
4 x 2 minute shadow boxing
6 x 1 minute (in pairs) doing pads work with one of the trainers or bag work, swapping every minute, this was incredible tough, as the trainers do not give you a second rest, which is what we need, but makes its tough going.
A minutes rest and then
We changed trainers and done the 6 x 1minute rounds again, how I was still throwing anything that vaguely looked like a punch at the end of these rounds, I'm not really sure.
After a short rest, we had 4 X 2 minute rounds of bag work, working on all our techniques, while getting constant coaching from the trainers as they walk round.
Next up, we moved back into pairs and did a blocking and jabbing drill, which we haven't done for a few weeks and there was huge improvements from those sessions, I was paired up with Justin for this, and straight away I noticed how much more he was moving around, making him a harder target to hit and how much faster his jabbing was, which is obviously excellent and shows how good a job the trainers are doing and how hard the guys are working on every aspect of there technique and fitness.
Finished off with 2 minutes fast and furious bag work and that was us done.
Funnily enough once we were done and had recovered a little, I thought to myself, that we had got off lightly, but then I remembered the state I was in halfway through the pad work rounds, and realised I couldn't of done anymore that night.
We get a break this Thursday, due to gym being closed and its good to just give our bodies a rest, before we step it back up on the final stretch towards fight night.
Sunday Funday, may be the best (worst) yet this week as we are heading to the beach fro some sand dune work !!
I will be doing some other training this week, so expect a post on this too.
Craig :-)
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