Day 8 - Boxing!

My "trainer" told me that today we would do boxing.  Honestly, i felt like, "Really? Boxing?"  But agreed to it anyway since i trust him completely and am very confident in what he knows and what he suggests is good for us.  So, at a bit after 7pm, i changed into my shorts and got ready to box.

We go upstairs and the first thing he taught us was how to wrap our hands in hard wrap.  If i remember correctly you put the loop through your thumb and then around your hand then 7 times around your knuckles and then around the hand and then between the pinky and ring fingers then around the wrist then between the index and middle finger and around the wrist again and then between the middle and ring fingers and finally finishing it off around the wrist.  Repeat on other hand.  It was pretty cool actually putting those on but still i wasn't sure about boxing and if this is the exercise i was looking for....

After putting on the hand wraps we were taught hot to stand and how to keep our hands up.  From there we were taught a few terms and how they're used in boxing.  Jab.  Jab straight.  Jab straight upper cut.  As well as some foot movement in terms of how to go forwards, backwards, and side to side.  How also to always keep your opponent squared in front of you.  

Before long we were punching pads attached to our "trainers" hands while being guided what to do and when to do it.  It was fun and the sweat started to pour.  Finally i was starting to get into it and felt that this was indeed a pretty cool way of exercising!  

After punching the pads a few times we were assigned to the punching bag.  Cool stuff!  We were being taught how to approach it and to never hit it when its moving away from you.  To wait for it to be coming back, to learn how to move away as well, plus imagining that it's going to hit you back so we had to learn how to move our heads away as well.  

Then we were assigned to do specific reps on the punching bag.  

15 of each of these:

Jab
Jab jab
Jab straight
Jab straight upper cut
jab straight upper cut upper cut
Jab Jab straight jab straight straight
jab duck jab straight duck jab straight jab straight straight!

I was fucking sweating bullets man!  We've been doing a series of different types of exercises since this whole thing began but i can tell you now, none of what we've done equals to the amount of sweat i had pouring out of me while boxing!  It was great and in the end i loved it and already can't wait to put those hand wraps and gloves on me again!

Tonight i think we're swimming or running or doing weights or maybe the very first work out we did, i'm not sure yet.

I certainly hope i burned enough to make the night before's poker night worth all that booze!