mental strength

Why do you have this urge to give up?

 

I can't say the urge to give up ever reduces. You just do it anyway. It's like that with anything, whether it's exams, getting up for work, going to watch sheffield wednesday lose.... you just do it because you have to!

 

You have low self esteem my freind which is commom. If im u I do what Sheff said thats just do it anyway finish ur sessions and spar hard. You keep doing it day after day u will see its not that bad confidence will grow. If it dont boxing isnt for u.

 

Its called hard work mate, no matter how you look at it. If you want to improve its going to get tougher, which means most people want to take the easy route and give up. If you want to get better you have to stick through the tough times my friend, after a while you will being doing what you find hard now for a before breakfast tune up if you grit your teeth and force yourself through that barrier.

heres an example; I ran a half marathon yesterday, after 8 miles my calf muscles were tight as ****, I could have taken the easy option of slowing right down, or stopping completely. But no, I gritted my teeth, and ran the time I wanted (2 mins under actually!!). Yes it hurt, and I can hardly ****ing walk this morning, but it was damn worth it!

Stick with it mate

 

It's up to you! If you want it to go away and work on it, it will reduce. You might even develop high self-esteem. You become more confident and develop self esteem in two ways:

First, you develop the courage to see yourself and the world as you are/as it is, not as you would like to think you are/it is.

Then, you think about how you would want to be and how you would want the world to be.

Secondly, you set realistic, small steps to help you change in the right direction. If you achieve these regular, small, realistic targets, you become better and better, steadily, and your confidence and self-esteem grow. First you change yourself, then you change the world around you.

 

Read books, 3 sets x 20 minutes.
Increase book weight and depth of story every 2-3 weeks.
Read intervals - as many pages possible in 5 minutes, rest for 1 minute by watching Family Guy (active recovery), then repeat x 3.
Try!

 

Everybody gets that feeling, alot of times when I run and my legs feel weak, I think in my head "Damn I want to stop, this is hard". You just need to push through it, I know it's tough, but thats the only way to improve.

I will give you a little example, I used to get into a decent amount of fist fights, and I was used to coming out on top and just punching my way through my oppenents with no problems. One day I got in a fight with a guy that wasnt just going to lay down and take the beating, he caught me with a shot that knocked out one of my teeth and another that felt like a sledge hammer when it my cheek, it was a feeling I was not used to, I wanted to quit and go home and clean up my wounds, but instead I said **** it, and kept on fighting, when the smoke cleared I won the fight, but I went home beat up and bruised, but for the first time in a long time did I have to dig down to get the win.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, your probably have great skills and can beat most guys in the gym with pure talent alone, but there will come a time when you will be tested by someone who's not impressed by you muscles or your superior boxing skills, thats when you will know if you have what it takes inside to battle on and dig out and get that tough win.

 

in time maybe

 

everybody feels that way in sparring. you're goal is just to say keep going for one more round, then two more rounds, then three, etc. Keep pushing yourself because you know you got the potential to be the best.

 

youre going to the gym and doing something most people wouldnt even dream about doing. while youre there you have nothing to be ashamed of or have low self esteem over right

 

train harder!! believe in yourself brother!!! if u dont nobody will!!

 

i just dont think about, just stay in there an fight.

 

that inspired me