The other day I had some drinks with a friendly guy. We both enjoy chess and martial arts. So we decided to do a chess boxing match! He boxes once a week, for 6 years I believe. He is friendly and were going to work out a ruleset where I don't get murdered. I have trained krav maga for 2 years and we did train boxing and light sparring. Obviously my boxing is very, very, VERY basic and currently my cardio sucks too - though it used to be pretty good. I got gloves, but no bag, no partner. What would be the best preparation? The match I believe is 11 rounds: Chess 4 mins Boxing 2 mins Chess 4 mins Box 2 mins ... etc Chess 4 mins So that's 5x2 mins of boxing. I know how hard easy it is to get gassed in such rounds.