When you're not sparring, what would you recommend as a good work out? I make a habit of waking up as early as possible and running a few miles, but I really have lose to know knowledge on this sport. The best way I work on my balance trying to shuffle back and fourth on a set of train rails. Does anyone have any recommendations on diet, specific workouts or drills, I really have access to nothing. I'm stuck shadow boxing until I can make my own punching bag, I can't go to any gyms. I'm starting at an early age to get into it later on. What should I do?

I am not a nutritionist, therefore I can not recommend a diet. As for training, the basic exercises work best, they give you true power: push-ups, squats, calf-raises, chin-ups, pull-ups, etc.. After shadowboxing for 3 or more rounds, grab some 1 pound weights and shadowbox some more. Also, if you have a long rope, tie one end somewhere and the other end to something so that it is about shoulder height, then work on your weaving/slipping skils.

And.. run, run, run! Distance one day, hit the track some other day to work on sprints like the 200 meters and 400 meters.

skip for 3 three minute rounds with 1 min rest in between

Have you gotten into burpees at all?

They are beautiful, painfully beautiful

Here's a link if ya need one: www.bodybuilding.com/fun/rossboxing2.htm

No equipment required, some of the best conditioning/strength training there possibly is I think.

What have you been doing since your post?

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