If I may, let me ask you four important questions about your boxing training.
When I do, you might think you know where I’m headed with these questions, but I hope that by getting you to answer them, I can give you a strategy that’ll make you tougher, more confident in yourself, and (most important of all) more capable than you are now.
After all, you’re reading this article because you want to get better at boxing. And if you already knew exactly what to do to improve, that’s what you’d be doing. Right?
So here are the questions about your boxing training:
- Do you notice a definite improvement from week to week and month to month?
- Are you confident that your trainer is giving you the attention you need and deserve?
- After your trainer teaches you a basic technique, are you sure that you know everything there is to know about it?
- Are you sure that the techniques you use are suited to your body type and personality, instead of “one size fits all” moves that your trainer teaches to everyone?
I hope you took a few moments to really think about the answers to those questions. Because they’re important.
Unless you can answer “yes” to each of those three questions, you are being shortchanged by whoever is taking money to teach you to fight.
Because if you answered “no”, there are only two possibilities…
The first possibility is you’re paying to go to a boxing gym but you’re not getting very much personal attention from a qualified trainer. The second is you have a trainer, but he’s not giving you what you need to succeed.
If you fall into the first category, let me assure you that just hitting the punching bags and sparring at the gym won’t make you very much better once you reach an average level of boxing ability. Since you don’t have a good trainer who can explain things to you step by step in a way that you can understand, you’re just working out for fitness, not to improve your skills.
And if you’re in the second camp – that is, you do have a trainer, but one that isn’t articulate enough (or doesn’t care enough) to help you understand all the things that he knows intuitively – you’re just wasting money, time, and opportunity.
Things are looking kind of hopeless at this point, right? But don’t worry, there’s a solution.
You don’t have to “fire” your trainer and find another one. And you don’t have to go find another gym.
Here’s what you do. Take advantage of today’s technology and “hire” your very own, world-class trainer!
For less than the cost of a few boxing lessons at the local gym, you can have a “virtual” trainer who will explain things to you in ways that make sense, ways that leave out no crucial bits of information, and ways that have worked for champion boxers all over the world.
Believe it when I tell you that you can learn from the likes of Kenny Weldon, Freddie Roach, or Jeff Fenech – all from the comfort of your own living room.
With boxing training DVDs, you won’t be rushed, you won’t be too embarrassed to rewind and watch an important bit over again, and you will never have to deal with the sneaking suspicion that your trainer really doesn’t know what he’s talking about.