Focus on shadow boxing and forget sit ups?

[RossyJames]

So I have my first fight coming up so naturally I am watching video after video on boxing tips and doing my best to perform them. So far I try to do 200+ sit ups a day however, should I forget about that and do more shadow boxing? Whenever I shadow box for a while I always get red lines on my stomach but with sit ups I feel like I'm wasting my time.

Opinions? I'm trying to lose body fat.

[Longhaul]

Mix it up sit-ups and crunches.Things depend on intensity when doing exercises when you run do you push yourself to complete exhaustion or do you go at a comfortable pace that will eventually tire you.Get a sit up board where you can change height and make it more challenging.

[RossyJames]

Mix it up sit-ups and crunches.Things depend on intensity when doing exercises when you run do you push yourself to complete exhaustion or do you go at a comfortable pace that will eventually tire you.Get a sit up board where you can change height and make it more challenging.

When running I've been doing a medium jog but I jog for quite a distance. Should I speed it up and do a shorter distance? Do you know if white collar is anything competitive? I've just been watching a few matches online and to me they look rubbish... I know it's easy for me to say as I've not been in there yet but I've not even had any training yet, all I've done is watch tutorials and I can sit there picking everything wrong that they do, from being ridiculously passive when dodging hits to not having their guard up most of the time to going for uppercuts when they're not there to randomly doing head movement when punches aren't even going their way, and their punches look really sloppy when they do hit.

I know that it's easy to pick at other peoples flaws but they're forgetting the basics.

[Longhaul]

When running I've been doing a medium jog but I jog for quite a distance. Should I speed it up and do a shorter distance? Do you know if white collar is anything competitive? I've just been watching a few matches online and to me they look rubbish... I know it's easy for me to say as I've not been in there yet but I've not even had any training yet, all I've done is watch tutorials and I can sit there picking everything wrong that they do, from being ridiculously passive when dodging hits to not having their guard up most of the time to going for uppercuts when they're not there to randomly doing head movement when punches aren't even going their way, and their punches look really sloppy when they do hit.

I know that it's easy to pick at other peoples flaws but they're forgetting the basics.

How soon is your first fight do you have much sparring yet.Do you know what your getting into have you been in any street fights just curious .Learning the art is a long road with a lot of failures and pain mixed into it.Unless your a complete natural it’s hard.When I was getting started and won a couple fights my friends wanted to do it to but all of them at point or another fell out for various reason.I don’t know anything about the white collar boxing other than somebody is making money off of you.It might be a good place to start because competition level will be sloppy.Are you eventually going to go to a sanctioned amateur gym and have sanctioned fights .I saw some of your questions on another thread also all’s I can say do what I did when I was a kid go to the gym and observe for awhile most of your questions will be answered.

[RossyJames]

How soon is your first fight do you have much sparring yet.Do you know what your getting into have you been in any street fights just curious .Learning the art is a long road with a lot of failures and pain mixed into it.Unless your a complete natural it’s hard.When I was getting started and won a couple fights my friends wanted to do it to but all of them at point or another fell out for various reason.I don’t know anything about the white collar boxing other than somebody is making money off of you.It might be a good place to start because competition level will be sloppy.Are you eventually going to go to a sanctioned amateur gym and have sanctioned fights .I saw some of your questions on another thread also all’s I can say do what I did when I was a kid go to the gym and observe for awhile most of your questions will be answered.

It's on July 13th, I'm not lucky enough to have a sparring partner but training starts on 20th of May but I'm trying to make the most of myself before then by getting my fitness to the best level I can and by constantly following techniques on reliable you tube tutorials.

When I was a young teen, I used to fight a lot in school, but they weren't casual scraps, I was expelled from several schools, when I was in year eight I was close to knocking out a year eleven before it got split up. But then I was hit with anxiety, I don't even know what happened. But now my anxiety is next to non existent I've came out my shell a lot again so it's why I want to do WCB to push my nerves to the limit.

If it's in a ring I can't see myself feeling scared at all, but say if it was to be on the streets or something that anxiety would hit me, I think it's because people carry knives etc I don't know. I guess street fighting and boxing are two different worlds in a way, or it's at least the way I view things. Yeah I know what I'm signing up for to kill in the ring :') or be killed... The first one sounds nicer to me though.

I just have a really good feeling about boxing and that I'm going to be a natural and do big things, I mean I'm gonna have to be because I'm starting at the age of 22, I haven't really got the time to slowly blossom it's more of a after a bit of training I've either got great potential and go places or wont. I am a very hard worker though and give everything myall.

After WCB I'm going to straight up join an amateur boxing gym even if I lose my boxing match. WCB will help me over come the reality of fighting in front of an audience so when it comes to my amateur debut I won't be fearing the unknown, I'll also know what it's like to get a punch in the face as it's been quite some time since my last one...

[Longhaul]

Wcb sounds like a good start I would fight several wcb fights before you switch over.Reason I asked about street fights was I was wandering if you had been hit before.When you get to the amateur fights you are going to gethit hard as hell with some guy trying to kill you all the while your tired your legs feel like lead it’s a different game.

[DugzBoxing]

So I have my first fight coming up so naturally I am watching video after video on boxing tips and doing my best to perform them. So far I try to do 200+ sit ups a day however, should I forget about that and do more shadow boxing? Whenever I shadow box for a while I always get red lines on my stomach but with sit ups I feel like I'm wasting my time.

Opinions? I'm trying to lose body fat.

You don't lose fat in the areas you target. Full body exercises such as press ups and planks are effective. You'll need to do a variety and not just do one exercise because it is pointless.

[OctoberRed]

You don't lose fat in the areas you target. Full body exercises such as press ups and planks are effective. You'll need to do a variety and not just do one exercise because it is pointless.

^^^^^ This.

[RossyJames]

Wcb sounds like a good start I would fight several wcb fights before you switch over.Reason I asked about street fights was I was wandering if you had been hit before.When you get to the amateur fights you are going to gethit hard as hell with some guy trying to kill you all the while your tired your legs feel like lead it’s a different game.

Is there that much of a difference in white collar to fighting a 0-0 amateur that's been through training and is ready to debut like yourself? I've not been looking at amateur boxing matches yet because I don't want to over look my WCB match.

The thing with WCB though is for example if I was to put on a dominant performance in my fight the question is would other WCB organizers accept me in the future for their competitions? My city is a small place so it wouldn't be too hard for them to do research and find out who's fought before etc and what was the out come. It states for beginners so if I do really well I may have no choice but to go to amateurs.

I think that they only really let boxers who either only just won or lost do it again. I can't see them letting someone who won very easily go around a second time because the public would scream blue murder if there's this constant boxer who wins every WCB event of the year or the next six months even, they'd call it a set up, wouldn't look good for their promotion as it's not supposed to be about reigning champions, even the belt doesn't go to the winner but whoever raises the most money.

But if I lose, I guess I should look at doing another WCB competition, or if I only just about win and am not anyway happy with my performance.

[RossyJames]

You don't lose fat in the areas you target. Full body exercises such as press ups and planks are effective. You'll need to do a variety and not just do one exercise because it is pointless.

I'll focus on ofc shadow boxing, press ups, sit ups, planks etc and continue with my running and swimming.

I'm going to stick to doing 200+ press ups and sit ups a day despite taking on more things but hey I've got a fight coming up so I can't really complain, I want to win.

Do you think 200+ press ups and sit ups a day is good enough to prepare myself for WCB? Before I could manage that I used to think that 200+ would be really impressive but now I can do it I'm thinking maybe I should do more, it doesn't really feel that impressive after all.

Since getting into boxing I've only been working in my local Library 8 hours a week so I for sure have the time to workout which I am grateful for as most people my age can't afford to either leave or drastically cut down their work hours to train and fully focus on one thing.