Train Hard or Stay Soft... Thursday, May 3

TONIGHT ‘S BOXING ROUTINE 
(1 round = 2 minutes)
5 rounds skipping
5 rounds shadow skipping
4 rounds pad work (in the ring with Junior Mint)
5 rounds heavy bag work
3 rounds shadow skipping
2 rounds skipping

TONIGHT’S WEIGHT TRAINING ROUTINE
LOWER BODY
3 x 12 thunder-thigh combo
3 x 12 resistance band standing adductors
3 x 12 resistance band standing abductors
3 x 12 weighted standing calf raises

ABS
2 x 50 no-hands lying leg lifts
2 x 50 weighted pulses
2 x 50 bicycle kicks
1 x 100 ins & outs

Pairing my boxing with my weight training makes for a long, grueling workout. I love it but sometimes I’m just too exhausted to get through it all, like Monday. On Monday I went there with a new personal training client of mine who has just started training at my boxing club. I got there a bit late and by the time I got through my boxing routine he was getting ready to leave and Snickers dropped by to pick me up. Weight training didn’t happen. 

I try to get my personal training clients to split up their cardio and weight training and urge them to do cardio first, then weight training. I used to do so too but these days I’m so busy – so busy training everyone else but me, or so it seems. I can’t possibly do my cardio first – my boxing – because I train with my coach in the evening for this but I’m seriously thinking about waking up extra early to get in my weight training before anything else.