If you'd done boxing for about 6-8 months about 2 years ago and you'd done nothing relevant since, how would you prepare yourself to restart? I'd like to learn to skip again, but fitness-wise I'm not sure how far to go. All I've done is lift weights for the last 18 months, no cardio at all.
Smart ****. The thing is, when I started up originally I used to play quite a bit of football. Although I was still unfit, I could at least jog for a mile or so. These days I'm not sure I could even cope with that, so I'm thinking about doing a couple of months of some half-decent preparation before going to this gym. It's a boxing/kickboxing gym. Boxing is Mon, Wed, and Fri and Kickboxing is Tue and Thurs. This means that I can't even use my shift pattern as an excuse not to go, because there's something on every single weekday evening.
Start doing cardio. Bike, run, swim....just get in shape so you have the energy to do what the trainer tells you to do. A lot of guys show up to our gym completely out of shape and our coach has to waste half the time he should be working on boxing skills with us just getting these guys to run and get to a basic level of fitness.
It wasn't meant as a smart ass comment. Nothing will prepare you better for boxing than boxing itself. You don't have to show up in shape, that's what the gym is for, getting you in shape.
Lol, exact same situation, ginger boy. Start doing cardio, hit a bag, get back in there. And don't be a daft ****, asking for ways to ease into it, and even if you're joking, you don't have an excuse to not go, go and make it a habit ya ****. Don't play silly buggers!
Yeah I know that, but I'm completely out of shape. I think going straight into it will be a ****ing shock to the system. I dunno why I'm talking as if I'll definitely go anyway, I know I'll find excuses not to bother.
How far is the gym where you lift weights? Can you run or bike there and back? All it would take is regular running of 30-40 minutes a few times a week for a few weeks to get to a point where you could reasonable keep up at the boxing gym. That, and lay off the alcohol a bit for a while.
Don't worry about cardio. Stop wasting your time doubting about it, just go. Simple as that. It's not like you have to fight Tyson when you get there; just see how far you can go and build it up from there.