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17/3/2015

Boxing Disappointment

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My morning tuesday morning boxing class has now been cancelled, it was a great class just to keep active first thing in the morning and to build up a sweat.  Apparently the numbers were never high enough, I will now probably start to feel lost on a Tuesday morning.  At least we had a good session this morning, with a mix of drills and 1,000 punch sprints.

First we did a set o punch drills from upper cuts, jab cross and hooks.
  • Side steps with 4 punches
  • Pistons
  • Step jump with 4 punches
  • Plank with punch
  • High knees 8 punches
  • Crunch and punch

We finished off completing 1,000 punches:
  • 100 uppercuts
  • 100 jab / cross
Now I have to start making up my own routines.  Especially since, Dave got some gloves for Christmas.

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3/3/2015

Double whammy

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Felt like a full on crazy workout today, my usual 'boxing partner' was not here this morning, so I had the pleasure of training with the trainer and doing two sets of circuits.  Which to push yourself to new limits are always great, but most definitely hard work, although surprisingly the 'killer' part of the circuit would have been the touch jumps, doing them for 30 seconds for 3 sets, your legs start to feel pretty heavy.  The usual combos, are always a mind beep, especially at 6am!!  So my major workout this morning consisted of the following TWICE

3 x 3 sets of 30 seconds
  • Pistons / High Punch / Pistos
  • Side Steps
  • High Punch
  • Touch Jumps

  • Upper Cuts
  • Plank with crawl
  • Straights
  • Sprints
Of course when your training for a 24 hour endurance event, your training doesn't stop first thing in the morning.  The second session of the day had to happen after work.  This is more strength and conditioning based rather than cardio, but is still a killer workout:
4 Sets
  • x12 Kettlebell Squats 8kg (each arm)
  • x10 (per leg) Lateral Lunges
  • x 12 Band Push Ups
  • x 12 Hanging Leg Raises
Although doesn't seem like much, but believe me it is still a killer all body workout.

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24/2/2015

Day 2 - Hitch Hiking Spider

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How to shit yourself heading to the gym at 5.30 in morning, quite happily driving along in my own little world, when a great big fing spider decides to make an appearance on  the windscreen, the road I was travelling along wasn't exactly slow, so I was actually quite impressed that it clung on for dear life (oh I forgot to mention that it was on the outside), but still it was close enough.  It is quite off putting, when you are concentrating on driving and all you see out of the corner of your eye is the giant spider.
It then disappeared in the bonnet, then of course I was thinking it will somehow get through the air conditioning unit and get me (possibilities are slim, but still possible), only for it then to appear on the passengers side window, either this spider can bloody move quickly or there is more than one.
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Taken from the internet, but you get the general idea (I wasn't that silly to take a photo while driving).
With much concentration, I actually made it to the gym - but then there were two problems that then arose:
  1. I didn't actually know what happened to the spider, or where it went, so it could still bloody well get me as I got out the car, and
  2. If there was more than one, then maybe it got into my gym bag
Luckily, neither happened but somewhere they are still in or out of the car.  At least I got my heart racing and the sweat pouring before I even started my workout my morning workout. 
Morning session consisted of an hours boxing drills, mixed with some tabata training:
  • 30 seconds
  • 20 seconds
  • 10 seconds
  • with 10 seconds rest
Workout included:
  • skaters
  • touch jump
  • star jumps
  • burpees
After getting all excited about Hunter the Huntsman spider, I nearly forgot to include the second session after workout. This was more a strength based programme, and included:
4 Sets
  • weighted backward lunges x 10 each side
  • push ups x 10
  • slide board pikes x 10
  • deadlifts x 12

and then:
3 sets
  • hanging leg raises x 10
  • sit ups x 20

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