Training & Exhaustion Help Needed Guys!

[ludaluda]

Thanks for the help!

[Barn]

If you've not boxed before, boxing training is very hard. It'll come, if you enjoy it just keep doing it.
When you're on the bag be sure to relax up. If you're keeping your guard up some people(like me) have a tendency to really tense up to keep it in place. Don't do that, just completely relax and don't be rigid.

[ludaluda]

Yes
i do keep the arms and guard up way more than before, my shoulders got stronger and i dont drop the gloves as often as before.

so i should let them go a bit?

[Alx.]

it takes a lot of endurance, i come from a karate/wing chun background in martial arts but loved boxing since i was little

my first day in the gym while boxing felt like murder, never done anything harder than that the pain and exhaustion was unbearable...and i've did my fair share of sports in life like soccer, gridiron football(im european), cycling and water polo

boxing was by far the hardest and most challenging physically and mentally and that's why i love it

hard work and dedication

[Rockin']

yup, boxing is straight out about having incredible endurance. With your weightlifting it's about short bursts os strength and your muscles were trained and used to it. When I was fighting I lifted as an amatuer but that was because I had a strength training course in school for 3 semesters. I had been boxing for a few years at that point.

Running is good but it will not fully condition you for boxing. You could bring in the worlds champion marathon runner into a boxing gym and he would be spent half way through the workout.

If you want to improve in boxing you have to fight through the pain and fatigue just like you did when you started lifting. I'd recommend that you focus more on the boxing when in the gym and less on weights, but keep running. You know Hilmer Kenty was a 15 round world champion fighter, he told me that he ran just 2 miles a day instead of the 5,8 or 10 that these other fighters were running.

But like most things fatigue is in the mind more than the body. People get working on the boxing and when their arms and shoulders start to burn they immediately drop their arms and proclaim that they are tired. That's **** though, you don't drop your arms and stop working. When you feel this burn will your arm fall off if you throw another punch? No, it will stay attached to your body.

You have to condition the mind just as much as your body. So many things are about mentality, boxing is definately one of the tougher ones.

I recommend for 3 months that you lay off of the weights, lay off the running and do nothing but boxing workouts. This will get your body well acclamated to the boxing workout, I bet that you'll do nearly twice as much in the boxing gym if you show up every night to work hard. This will get your body and mind used to working long periods of time in the gym. Then when you start up running again your muscles have memory and will come around quickly. But when you go to the boxing gym after your mind aswell as your body will be properly trained to work the rounds.

The mind controls it all, you just have to learn to have your mind tell your muscles what to do. You have to connect your mind to the muscles. I used to tell my people, at the end of the workout to indian style, close their eyes and to touch their aching muscles with the mind. To feel the burn and fatigue and to learn to love that feeling because that means that they worked hard and the body will reward them for that with growth.

It's mind over body...........Rockin'

[Alx.]

yup, boxing is straight out about having incredible endurance. With your weightlifting it's about short bursts os strength and your muscles were trained and used to it. When I was fighting I lifted as an amatuer but that was because I had a strength training course in school for 3 semesters. I had been boxing for a few years at that point.

Running is good but it will not fully condition you for boxing. You could bring in the worlds champion marathon runner into a boxing gym and he would be spent half way through the workout.

If you want to improve in boxing you have to fight through the pain and fatigue just like you did when you started lifting. I'd recommend that you focus more on the boxing when in the gym and less on weights, but keep running. You know Hilmer Kenty was a 15 round world champion fighter, he told me that he ran just 2 miles a day instead of the 5,8 or 10 that these other fighters were running.

But like most things fatigue is in the mind more than the body. People get working on the boxing and when their arms and shoulders start to burn they immediately drop their arms and proclaim that they are tired. That's **** though, you don't drop your arms and stop working. When you feel this burn will your arm fall off if you throw another punch? No, it will stay attached to your body.

You have to condition the mind just as much as your body. So many things are about mentality, boxing is definately one of the tougher ones.

I recommend for 3 months that you lay off of the weights, lay off the running and do nothing but boxing workouts. This will get your body well acclamated to the boxing workout, I bet that you'll do nearly twice as much in the boxing gym if you show up every night to work hard. This will get your body and mind used to working long periods of time in the gym. Then when you start up running again your muscles have memory and will come around quickly. But when you go to the boxing gym after your mind aswell as your body will be properly trained to work the rounds.

The mind controls it all, you just have to learn to have your mind tell your muscles what to do. You have to connect your mind to the muscles. I used to tell my people, at the end of the workout to indian style, close their eyes and to touch their aching muscles with the mind. To feel the burn and fatigue and to learn to love that feeling because that means that they worked hard and the body will reward them for that with growth.

It's mind over body...........Rockin'

pain is weakness leaving the body i always say

[Rockin']

pain is weakness leaving the body i always say

that's a good start...........Rockin'

[Barn]

Yes
i do keep the arms and guard up way more than before, my shoulders got stronger and i dont drop the gloves as often as before.

so i should let them go a bit?

Not let them go, keep everything in the same position but relax all the muscles. Tensing muscles to keep your guard etc in place is just wasting energy.

Took me ages to get out of this habit.

[Larry the boss]

pain is weakness leaving the body i always say

love it.love it.................might get it tattooed on me