17/02/2009
MT
Got there about 20 minutes early and worked the floor to ceiling bag.
2 rounds shadow boxing.
Everyone paird up. Now I can't kick or clinch because of the strain, so I ended up pairing up with ed who is 82 kg, about 3 inches taller then me and quite solid. He has a hip injury.
4 3 min round just body boxing. After the first round I took out the double mouth guard.
1 round off (so 5 minutes with rest, 3 min, rest)
4 3 min rounds of full boxing.
I collapsed afterwards for a few rounds before doing some mucking about sparring.
Now what I have learnt from this:
My aerobic work isn't that bad, but needs a lot of work.
I need my shoulder endurance back. My combos were 3 slow hard shots at most, sintead of 6-7 fast snappy shots. This is a shoulder and endurance of the anaerobic system issue.
I need to start doing interval and sprint work more often, so when my strain if fixed I'll start doing runs until it's back to full strength and then I'll get back to my 400's.
I need to get skip rope a lot.
I need to buy some rubber shoes/insoles. I can't do any second phase work because I can't plant my feet afterwards.
Basically the skill is there and it had flashes yesterday (I don't think a single hook landed and I bobed and weaved when my legs could sustain it like a fucking champ, the rest of the time a chump). I also want to get down to 78. After sweating my arse off, I was at 85.5 last night.
edit- even shabba out paced me at the end. I mean wtf. I need to have wars with people again. If I had sparred chris or lyndon or olly I would probably have a broken nose.
Incentive now there.
edit2- I also today don't feel absolutely wasted. I think as long as I keep the heavy LSD work in there and continue to push it, I should be able to train more often. I didn't find the link between aerobic work and recovery previously, but it's quite evident now. I just need to pace myself and not rush like I usually do.
On a side note again- curry tomorrow and out with the boys saturday evening after a thai take out.
Good job I get paid in 7 days. I have 30 quid left.