For the next two weeks my days will consist of early morning runs, boxing in the evening and a lot of sleeping in between training. My training at the boxing club will consist of the usual components I do -- skipping, shadow boxing, pad work, weight training and ab work – but it’ll also include daily sparring sessions which definitely jump my training up several notches on the intensity scale. “Train hard, fight easy”.
I’ve got exactly 14 days till I’ll have to step on the scale in front of my opponent and KBC for my fight weigh-in. So, with only 14 days left,, this means I’ll be weighing-in an average of 3-4 times, depending on if I go running that day.
1. immediately when I wake up
2. after my run
3. upon arriving at boxing
4. after boxing training
My weight will be watched like a hawk, not only by me but also by Junior Mint and Snickers. It’s kind of strange waking up, leaning in for a kiss from Snickers but being interrupted by him saying “jump on the scale”. Nothing like a good morning weigh-in… hahaha. Mind you, weighing-in so frequently keeps a constant pressure on me but it’s a needed pressure, a means of keeping me focused. My weight fluctuates so much during the day and as I approach my fight weigh-in day it’ll fluctuate even less though as I start to dehydrate myself next week, then I can practically count the few beads of sweat after training.
Wearing a sauna suit is also a mandatory Junior Mint’s placed on me for when I’m boxing. It’s like a thick plastic suit that ups your body temperature, helps to elevate your heart rate and thus makes you sweat much more than usual. Thankfully I’m not being forced to wear the full suit, only the shirt.
Tonight I got appointed a second sparring partner so I was pretty stoked yet intimidated over that. It’s always a bit nerve-racking, stepping into a sparring session with a new sparring partner but it’s good in that it’s just like on fight day. You don’t know you’re opponent so there’s no getting use to them. Staying with the same sparring partner for too long can prove to be ineffective in that you do get used to them, learn their weaknesses and strengths, and also pick up new moves from them. I’ve never had the opportunity to get comfortable with a sparring partner though on account that I’ve never really had a set partner. Now I’ve got two – Captain Jab and the Korean Hornet – and that’s awesome. The Korean Hornet is a few weight classes above me and is more of an in-fighter, unlike Captain Jab who is almost the same weight as me and is an out-fighter. As for why the Korean Hornet is called the Korean Hornet, it’s because he definitely knows how to sting you with his punches and I got a swollen eye to testify to that, yikes.
We were supposed to go for 4 rounds of sparring tonight, the Korean Hornet and I, but when the kid went to press start on the round bell he accidently turned it off. It wasn’t until Junior Mint noticed that we had sparred through an entire song, about 4-5 minutes, playing in the background that he took notice and stopped us. “Restart!” he yelled out. Turns out by restart he meant restart the whole sparring session so basically we sparred for 6 rounds.
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