Training Through the Hard and Staying Motivated

This is all who showed up for training tonight -- me, myself and I.

Training alone in an empty club is definitely the hardest for me because I like the extra energy that comes with being around others who are training.

Tonight's motivation and self push came from these two pairs of gloves -- my first ever pair of boxing gloves.

I bought these Ringside gloves back when I first started boxing, back in Canada some 11+ years ago.  

I brought them with me to Korea and they've had the privilege of being worn by numerous Korean champs.

As for these red Born To Fight gloves, Junior Mint gave them to me about 5 years ago.  

They were passed down to me from another boxer who had decided to retire from ring fighting.

Our club motto daily motivates me to check myself -- check my training and clean eating.

Transformation isn't a future event, it's a daily event, and this motto reminds me to continue work on myself.

And while I was slaving away with my own boxing, Snickers was over in a country, a nine hour plane ride away, cheering on some amateur boxers and posing as corner coach.

Oh to be so new to boxing again, when everything was so fresh, new and exciting.

Keeping the passion and love for the sport alive is something that I occasionally struggle with, I think all us pro boxers do, but the point is to continue through the highs and the lows.  

The hard is what makes it the great and if it was easy everyone would be doing it.