"It's like living with an ex for a bit after a breakup", it most definitely is.
Coach Brown the other day offered to take some new client of his out for breakfast after training and in my head I was like "that was our thing". And it was our thing -- training together and then eating together. Mind you, it then evolved into just eating together and hence part of the reasoning behind me leaving him and the club.
You know when you're just done, I mean down-in-your-gut, past the expiry date, more than willing to simply hang up the towel you chuck it,... well I am so there.
I'm juggling coaching beyond-early early morning classes, personal training clients, and midday boxing, and then switching between late evening weight training and more boxing at my other club.
I just want to box.
I just want to fight.
I've agreed to take on two personal training clients so they will be my only work outside of my boxing and weight training. Coach Perez keeps urging me to drop weight training but mentally I need it. It's good for my soul -- the human interaction with friends who train there, the pre-workout coffee with Ginger Spice, and even the post-workout subway ride home where I sit and dissect my workout or end up talking to some random fellow TTC subway rider. I don't want to give up going to System, I don't want to give up my weight training so I definitely have to switch it up to more functional training and big burst exercises. Weight training makes me slow in the ring, slow and heavy. Weight training for a boxer is very different than that of a regular fitness gym goer and I thought I had incorporated that fact into my workout routines but I get not as much as I had thought I did.
I've been approached by numerous people to start my own private boxing classes but coaching boxing isn't necessarily my passion. I love coaching weight training and sparking competition between my members.
One of my buddies at System, let's call him Frenchie, wants to start training alongside me. He too is a boxer but he wants to do his weight training with me. We talked about taking our training outside, like to High Park or a local school yard, and working on drills like sprints, footwork exercises, and body weight training. I thought about possibly doing it at the school by my apartment. This way he can leave his stuff at my house and then after training he can both shower and eat at my house. If it went well and I wanted to expand upon it than I could invite others to train with us and start up a side group training class. I have a list of those who have noted they'd like to train with me but people tend to be more talk than action so I can't bank on everyone coming through with their words. None the less, it definitely is an option and possibility for the future. Spring time would be the perfect time to kick it off because the weather would be nice. The thing with my group training however is that it would be a set group that always trains together. Ideally I'd train them 3 times a week and it'd be the same people so they'd commit to a monthly membership. This way there is more security in it for me because having PT clients is great but it is brutal when you're leaning on them for a paycheck and they cancel. Monthly memberships are the way to go. But, like I said, it's something for the future. For right now, I have my sponsorship, my 2 weight training clients and my boxing to keep me busy and make ends meet. Am looking forward to toning down my crazy schedule and solely focusing on just that.
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