Latest Gym Diary Extract 12/9/2013 First of all I would like to apologise for the delay in posting my GB Boxing gym diary extract. So much went on during that wonderful weekend that I am still writing it to be honest, and also my training has been stepped up another notch and I am now training 6 days a week one to one with Mark Fowler at the Engine Shed Gym, doing a 5km run every day (agony!) and training in a group at Atherstone ABC four times a week on top of that so on some days I have not two but three workouts! Since attending the 75kg GB Boxing workshop I have lost just under 6kg in a month, and I am losing weight at a rate of a pound a day at the moment. I am coming down from Super Heavyweight to Super Middleweight and am pleased that I am still able to hold the power I had at Heavyweight as I am naturally exceptionally strong. Thinking back over the last year I am amazed at how far I have come. What a difference a year makes! When I hit my 75kg target I will have lost 10 stone of excess weight, and taking up boxing at 29 years of age after a 14 year gap in exercise and sport, and having to learn a completely new skill and 12 months later getting onto GB is one hell of an achievement considering the coach from my very first club said I was rubbish and would never lose weight or be a boxer. (And still says so even to this day!) As well as losing the weight, I have learnt new skills, self control and discipline, and learnt to control my temper. The biggest change has not been to my body it’s actually been to my mind and I have Mark Fowler to thank for that. He was the only person in boxing at that time who gave me a chance when nobody else would give me the time of day. I had an unhappy childhood, struggled with debt, poverty, obesity, ill heath, depression and anxiety, bullying, domestic violence, and an eating disorder, as well as trying to raise a child on my own as a single mother and I hope I have shown other people that if I can change my life and achieve they can do it too no matter how bad their circumstances are. This time last year I was very overweight, ill, depressed, I couldn’t find a job despite being highly educated. I couldn’t even do the warm up at the gym without becoming exhausted and now I run 5km every day. I used to struggle and become exhausted at the first 1 min 20 seconds of the first round of 2 minute rounds and I am now flying through 5 to 6 three minute rounds without puffing. This time last year I was so heavy I couldn’t actually do a sit up, but now I can do several rounds of them non stop. For the first time in over a decade I feel my age instead of an old woman. I am delighted that the rule changes in Amateur boxing have come at just the right time for me. Longer rounds, a different scoring system that suits my aggressive brawling style, and an increase in the age limit to 40. It must be fate….
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 10:40:54 +0000
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