I have decided to start boxing again as an amatuer since I was embarassed in my last fight as an amatuer at the US Championchips which was 10 years ago? Now I am 27. My wife gave me the go ahead to do it again for one year. So I quit working just to work out and she started working so I had the time to work out. Well any ways here is my workout as it stands now. 1st session 3 mile run 12 rounds of jumping rope 12 rounds hitting the heavy bag 12 rounds double bag 12 rounds speed bag 12 rounds shadow boxing with 4 lbs weights 2nd session 1 hour boxing on the wii(I am not kidding it really is a heart raising workout) 30 pushups 50 crunches 30 mountain climbers 1-2 50 times as fast as can left and right hooks as fast as can 50 times I repeat all of that starting from the push ups 3 times. at the end I do 3 rounds of shadow boxing with the 4 lbs weights. I have been doing this for about 2 months now. Oh yeah and I do this 2 days, 1 day off, 2 days, 1 day off. Is there any other exercise I can do? Is this a good routine. Thanks for any answers.
first session seems tiring. might want to do sprints and some weights. and up the run length gradually.
"My wife gave me the go ahead to do it again for one year. So I quit working just to work out and she started working so I had the time to work out."
Split up almost everything into sets. If you can take this here's a better design: Instead of using wii shadow box or I'd spar with some friends. 3 sets of 10-15 pushups 5 sets of 10 crunches with 15-20 sec rest 3 sets of 10 mountain climbers with 30 sec rest 1-2 combo 5 sets of 10 with 25 sec rest left/right hooks at max speed 4 sets of 15 reps and 25 sec rest As this gets easier work up into weights, more sets/more reps.
So maybe go to every other day to prevent overtraining. Other information I looked up said to get plenty of rest which I do, around 10 hours a day. And eat a good diet, eat around 4000 calories a day to maintain the weight I want to fight at. Is there any other things I can do to prevent it? Also I looked up symtoms of overtraining I do not have any of the ones I could find. How can I tell that I have overtrained then?
How much do you weigh? If you weigh less than about 225+ then you need to eat alot less than 4000 cals. And I think to know if your overtraining your muscles is past sore and starting to feel pain. I'm not completely sure, but I know that that is most likely overtraining.
I have an extremly high metabalism. 125 lbs. I do not get sore from working out. The only time I am sore was the first 2 weeks.
Well what are you looking for? Gaining muscle, strength, or endurance and speed(striking), which looks like what your aiming for with this.
You're a freakin beast! That first session looks brutal. How long do you take to get it done? You're overtraining if you work out more than 2 hours a day of intense exercise. Also don't do more than 5 days a week. If you're not feeling sore at all, switch up the routine and try doing it every other day and like mentioned above, use sets.
