thinking about switching gyms, advice please.

[juggernautburn]

edited as a means to idiot proof.

[mgkirkpatrick]

replied at ESB

[Exige Jr]

3 weeks and you want to be more advanced than someone that has done it 1 week for example?

You are being far too impatient. I havent been to your gym so I dont know what it's like there... but every gym has what you described. We have thousands of little kids especially on a monday night. It got so ridiculous that trainers stopped coming on that day and were prepared to give up their Tuesdays and Thursdays to train the real kids. So Monday anyone comes, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday are for proper boxers only and Wednesday its generally quite quiet even though anyone can come. If I wanted to I could train 5 days a week but I switch it up with having a social life, work and also different types of training on the off days.

But to answer your question it definetly sounds like you are being too impatient. You have gone there for 3 weeks and in 3 weeks I couldnt throw a hook or an uppercut either. I was sparring after about 6 months probably... I bet your 1-2 technique is not what it should be either. Your trainer probably knows best.

[mgkirkpatrick]

pretty much what i said. alot of gyms a trainer wont look at u for a couple of months. he wants to test your resolve and if ur impatient after 3 weeks maybe thats exactly what he was waitin to see. i cant say for sure but maybe give it a bit more of a chance before u decide he's a lazy ****

[potatoes]

i've been going to this gym for 3 weeks. it isn't really the best gym in the world. it's actually apart of a park, not a separate entity. and of course it's free. i go to it for the simple reason that it is free, there are a few other choices around my way, but cost money, and i'm starting to rethink what i'm willing to sacrifice for something i care about. i was in there today, looking around, and i mean, i'm in there doing some dumb ass 1 two shadow boxing that any window shoppin' ass mother****er does when they come to the gym, yeah, my stamina has improved, but i didn't come here just to improve my stamina, i came here to learn to ****ing box. i can do everything that they taught me by my damn self, including stamina improvement. i'm not going to get any sparring any time soon, he wants me to work on my stamina, which has improved tremendously, but in the mean time, let me learn things other then just a one two punch. i've got it down, i want to learn something new. maybe a defensive drill or two. i'm bigger then everyone there pretty much, and there are only a couple of guys in there that are really serious. i mean, do you guys learn more than the one two pucnh after being there for a few weeks, i mean, anything, defensive sparring, something?

i guess things just start looking pathetic when you've been going there for three weeks, and any newcomer that comes to the gym is doing the same thing you are doing. plus, i don't think he believes in me at all, he looks at other boxers and pays attention to them. whenever i hit the bag, he says i'm pushing the bag, but even when i pitty pat the bag, it starts ****ing moving. it's to the point i try to stop it from moving before he looks at me and tells me to stop pushing the bag. yeah, right mother****er.

to add to all that bull****, seems like the gym is just littered with a bunch of kids that are never going to even go anywhere in boxing and they just come over to check it out since they are bored with playing basketball or whatever the hell those kids do. different kids everyday too it seems like. there might even be the oddball old **** that comes there to get a work out in. basically, they crowd the gym up so it's hard to ****ing move around. and i don't like little kids. and it sucks that they are doing the same basic **** that i'm doing.

this half assed gym doesn't even have a ring for sparring in, everyone that spars, does it without a ring, if someone falls, good luck.

am i over reacting? what should i do? either way, i'm probably going to go to the gym that costs money. **** the dumb ****, time to take this **** a little more seriously.

When I first went to the boxing club many long years ago, it was free. Or should I say the owner of the club didn't charge any money? Once you entered the gym it was serious business. No loitering and no screwing around. You trained seriously or he threw you out! One way to evaluate the training you are likely to get is to see how many guys are taking their training seriosusly. If the gym is full of layabouts chances are that is the what you will be doing too.