Hard Time Now, Easy Time Later... Thursday, January 19

Snickers returned to boxing this past week. Ever since he broke his hand at sparring he’s been sticking to mountain hiking and road work (running) as his main source of exercise. Just recently he’s returned to weight training too but the best was seeing him step back in the ring for pad work with Junior Mint.

I officially got appointed a sparring partner – my coach’s assistant, Captain Jab – and he’s awesome, though I must admit I had trouble at first punching one of my already favourite Koreans. He’s got a lot of amateur experience and fights purely amateur style in that he’s very fast on his feet and goes for speed as opposed to strength. From here on out I’ll be sparring at least three rounds a day till Fight Day, as if my training wasn’t intense enough. Tuesday was the official day my sparring partner was announced so my coach kicked things off by upping the intensity of my training from intense to insanely intense.

Fight Prep Training
(I should note too that all these exercises were done back-to-back with only enough time given to me to change my gear, like put on my heavy bag gloves or get my head gear laced up for sparring).
15 minutes of skipping
4 rounds of shadow boxing with wrist and ankle weights on
6 rounds of pad work with Junior Mint in the ring
3 rounds of sparring with Captain Jab
5 rounds of heavy bag work
10 minutes of skipping
15-20 minutes of weight training
10 minutes of ab work

Training for my fight continues to go on and continues to intensive. With the school kiddies being on vacation I’ve been training later than usual to avoid the mad flock of boxers at UP. I’m there training for a good, solid hour and a half to two hours and leave with just enough energy to walk home. As lazy as it sounds, there are some days when I wait for Snickers to pick me up, I’m just too exhausted, but no complaints. Hard time now, easy time later.

Still no real action on Operation Beatdown excepted for a heightened sense of anticipation and more people willingly signing up to be on the lookout. We’re seized a leading piece of evidence to the mystery identity of the person involved and are taking it in to be finger printed by the police.

Scored another job, something totally unrelated and incredibly disconnected from running my fitness company and doing my boxing. It’s a means of putting extra money in my bank for the anticipated traveling both Snickers and I want to do in the near future. So, basically for the next year, for every three and a half months of working this job with its 4 day work week with low hours I’ll be getting two and a half months off in addition to juggling Flipside Fitness and my boxing.