take a boxing class

I have been irritated with things in my life and surroundings for several months now and I had a boss who told me about “fighting”. He did some sort of weekly fighting that sort of reminded me of FightClub even though it was not that at all. It made me think. I WANT TO BOX. I want to have a great time learning how to properly hit and move my body while using a punching bag. I don’t want any one on one stuff – just me and the bag. I can’t help but believe this will help greatly with stress and frustration. Wouldn’t you agree.

I just need to find a place now. (northern Ky)

The gym I joined a few months back has a boxing class so I decided to change it up and go! I have always wanted to learn how to box since I was a kid. I figured this was just the universe telling me to go.

The class isn’t some gym bred, choreographed to cheap house music tae bo shit. This is the real deal. There is even a room at the gym designed just for it.

It was everything I thought it would be and more! I had a blast learning jabs, crosses and hooks. I had no idea how much the hips are used to add power and precision to strikes.

I’m a convert. I plan on making my Thursdays boxing day!

Make sure you wrap up your hands before. Lesson learned.

I don’t know the closest YMCA to my house but I want to join a boxing class with one of my friends in school next year or the end of ths year. I want to lose some fat and keep it off and gain muscle in the arms, legs, and abs.

Sometimes I put goals on here when I think I’m pretty close to accomplishing them… and then wrenches get thrown, and goals wind up languishing on my 43Things page. This is one of those goals—one of those pesky ones that I’m not working on nor thinking about, until I come to 43Things. I think I put this one on here when I was still underemployed and had lots of time but very little money. I’d found one of those cardio boxing classes offered at the YMCA that I could have taken. It was cheap. But…eh. That wasn’t what I really wanted. What I’d really like to do is join a boxing gym and take classes there.

But there are a couple things getting in the way of my doing that: 1.) The boxing gyms I’ve scoped out are not terribly close to where I live. All require at least 15 minutes in the car. More with traffic, which is usually plentiful. 2.) If I DID join, when would I go? I already feel pressed for time to do my usual evening things: dinner, taking my dog out, cleaning up the house a bit, reading my Livejournal friends and commenting on their entries, hanging out with Adam. There are more pressing things I need to squeeze into my evenings: aerobic exercise, reading, working on short stories.

I don’t really want to give up on this goal, but it’s also not something I can find a place for in my life right now. I’ll keep thinking about it, though.