boxing training

[turnipmonster]

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Q: Should I stay away from boxing if I broke my 5th metacarpal (Boxer's fracture) a few years ago?

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I guess it depends, but I would stay away. boxing can be a little hard on your hands, and your hands are important [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. if I thought I was going to hurt my hands boxing I would definitely stop.

[playtowin]

just out of curiousity, how much does it cost to do this?

[turnipmonster]

gym membership is 80 bucks a month, trainers charge different rates but most are 100-300 per month. how it works is, your trainer keeps regular hours in the gym and you can go whenever you want during those hours and train. sometimes you'll do some stuff with other fighters that train with your trainer, like spar or footwork or something.

I really can't believe how cheap it is to have a personal trainer, although I guess it's not 100% personal all the time because sometimes there are multiple people working out. still, it's very cheap.

[cbloom]

The way boxing training works is really cool. They should have the same thing for powerlifting where you can just go into a gym and work out, but your coach is in there and will keep an eye on everyone and help you out and stuff.

[turnipmonster]

agreed, it's a very nice system and would really work well for something like powerlifting. I was a little skeptical when I first started, like do I really need a personal trainer, can't I just take a class? but a class would have probably sucked, and having a trainer has been a great experience because workouts are tailored towards you and your trainer is always pushing you to go a little extra or whatever. which, if you work out by yourself, it's easy to get in a rut without someone pushing you.

[Rootabager]

I have been taking boxing twice a week. It's a two hour class that goes through basically what you posted, then you spar for around a hour. It's pretty bad ass workout.

It gets you in great shape and teaches you how to throw punches. Boxing technique and footwork are really hard to master.

I was also suprised by the number of girls in my class. There is a 14 year old girl that is so sick.

[That Foreign Guy]

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There is a 14 year old girl that is so sick.

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Why don't you go have a seat over there?

But yeah, boxing is some of the most fun you can have working out.

[Blarg]

Definitely. Working out just to work out is much harder to me than working out because you have a sports-related goal. Boxing gives you as good a goal as anyone could ever want -- to not get punched in the face!

[Wolfram]

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Definitely. Working out just to work out is much harder to me than working out because you have a sports-related goal. Boxing gives you as good a goal as anyone could ever want -- to be able to punch somebody in the face effectively!

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[Blarg]

I don't think as many people want to do that as want to avoid having it get done to them, but YMMV. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]