How did boxing training improve your life?

Got in great shape, improved confidence and felt better all around really.

 

same as above. great shape, six pack abs etc, met great people, also gained the confidence to NOT want to fight which i feel is most important knowing that unless youre trained at all i will have no problem busting your ass

also got very much into health related things and confidence and the girls find boxers very sexy.

The only real sacrifices are **** you shouldnt be doing any way lol partying, drinking smoking and smoking and drinking, drugs etc... but then again, there is the off season!

jkjk dont do that, just stay healthy and **** bitches

 

Taught me that the only thing to fear is fear itself, learning that set me free to pursue the kind of life I wanted to live rather than letting fear hold me back and keeping me been just another ordinary guy.

The main sacrifice was childhood friends, we never had anything in common after a while since I didn't live to party anymore and there were some jealously issues to.

 

Yeah going through that atm

 

if you are training to get the girl, you will stop training when you get her, thats 100 %. my buddies are examples haha !!

its like when you learn to play guitar, or dance, or bodybuilding and everything. As soon you start ****ing you will stop with training except if you love this training (or playing,singing,dancing) more then your goal (****ing, showing off..)

 

before boxing i was a legit alcoholic

 

Not sure if you're serious, but if you are that's awesome if boxing has helped turn that around for you.

 

Shadows haven't ****ed with me since.

 

look where he's from ofc he's serious lol. i too was drunk abit too much when i didnt have a hobby, and now have virtually quit.

 

It helped me tremendously with anger management,self-control and self-confidence. I tend to isolate myself from society if left to my own devices, so it gets me out of my hole and out there meeting people. I have a lot more patience and dare I say, something to aim for other then money?

that's true...

 

Well, I haven't started yet, but I want to start for a few reasons:

1. It's fun. I like competing, and boxing is the ultimate competition. You rely on yourself and only yourself, and the only way to get to the top is to work harder than everyone else. In football, I'd always get mad because I played for a **** team and my QB was a dumbass who screwed it up for everyone. I wasn't the best player, but I held my own. In boxing, the only person you need to rely on in the ring is yourself.

2. To get in shape. I've had quite a few knee injuries and I'm only 19 (in March), and I already have osteoarthritis. Having so many knee injuries, I've been on crutches for too long, and I got out of shape and overweight. As someone who used to pride myself on being one of the fastest and most in-shape players on my football team, I'm looking to return to being in-shape.

3. Confidence. A lot of people always tell me that I'm soft and I can't fight and they always doubt me. I don't doubt myself, and I know I can do it, and I want to prove to people that I can do it.

I don't care for girls. Obviously I'm not gay and I like getting girls, but I don't want to get a girl who likes me just because I box and I'm in shape. If you box to get girls, you're boxing for the wrong reasons. Also, I don't want to box just for money. Obviously it's an added benefit, but I'd rather be doing it because I love it, rather than doing it for money.

 

Fitness, the challenge, my love of the sport.

I've only been doing it for 4 or 5 months but it's given me a whole new insight into watching the sport. Why shots are thrown / movement / respecting fighters skills / scoring fights etc etc.

If you're a big fan of the sport I'd encourage anyone to do a bit of the training just to enhance their viewing of fights alone.

 

very serious mate,not had a drink for going on two years now.