Had boxing class today. Have that every Tuesday and Thursday morning. It's a great way to invigorate myself for the day, and we spend a lot of the time with gloves on and either hitting mitts or holding mitts. My partner was kinda shy and didn't give much feedback.
One problem with the gym is that its water fountain is pretty far away from it, and its stream is very weak. It'd take me forever to get as hydrated as I wanted, so I just have a little sip and scurry on back between drills, using about a minute of the forty-five each time. That said, my cardio's definitely a limiting factor nonetheless, which I suppose is another good reason to do HIIT.
Today's class, we practiced a few combinations with mitts. Jab, jab-cross, jab-cross-hook, and jab-cross-hook-cross. Did one with bob-and-weave, too. My arms and shoulders are trashed after every single class. I'm not sure when that'll start to go away, but until it does, I will suck ass at every boxing thing.
Muay Thai today was relatively unpopulated. It was notable for the excruciating warmup. We usually start by running around the room as a class, stopping for pushups and whatever else. Today, the 'whatever else' included leap frogs, meaning we squatted ass-to-ground and then jumped up in full extension, fifteen times. Also did lunges for about thirty seconds. Was completely trashed after that. And I'd felt proud of myself when I survived the sixty-second wall-sits last week.
I felt the size difference (in my favor) for the first time with my partner today. I've probably been a bit bigger than most of my drill partners, but today my punches were rocking this guy through the Thai pads more than I expected, so I pulled them a bit. It was a weird feeling and not one I really like.
During the next few hours, since it ended at 9:30 PM, I had three bananas, an apple, water, V8, and a peanut butter-strawberry jam sandwich. Mm.
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