Month: November 2013
November 25, 2013
Don't skip the skipping
I can tell that some people love skipping as much as they like going to the dentist. It's uncomfortable at best and painful at worst. As soon as they start you can see a kind of misery cloud their e...
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Five reasons to train like a boxer
1. You will be strong and fast If you train like a boxer you will develop good functional strength rather than bulk. Many boxers are deceptively strong. They look like whippets but they punch with sl...
Read MoreNovember 11, 2013
From Africa with (tough) love
You could call Yohannes Sheferaw the Smiling Assassin, although his official boxing alias is Golden Hands. Either way, there is nothing sinister about this former Ethiopian Olympian. [caption id="a...
Read MoreNovember 3, 2013
Lesson # 1. Go to the gym
Sometimes I joke that if I knew how difficult boxing was, I would never have started. There's a small kernel of truth in that. Boxing is hard on so many fronts - physically, mentally, emotionally. But...
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