Thanks to my buddy Geoff from work, he loaned me his punching bag for a while. He came by yesterday and gave me a few pointers and also loaned me a book on boxing training. It's a pretty intense workout. I'm there in my garage, wearing my sweats and a hoodie, just burning up a sweat! I have some training gloves somewhere here in my house but I cannot find them at the moment. They are probably somewhere in a box up in the attic. I'll have to go looking later. For now, I am using my work gloves that I use for yardwork and such. The bad thing about that is that I last used them this past weekend for the holiday cookout at work. Why is that bad? Because they STILL smell of smoke. Not so good.
Since I didn't workout Friday or Saturday, I doubled up on Sunday, which was supposed to be my day of rest. So on Monday I rested. Tuesday I doubled up again just get in that extra workout. It was also the first time I used the punching bag. Great sweat!
As for today, I did the DVD workout and spent a few minutes on the punching bag. I felt like giving it another shot. I took my phone out with me and set the alarm to go off after two minutes. Once I started those two minutes were over before I really got going. "That's it?!" That went by quick. So I rested for about a minute then did another two minutes straight. Geoff suggested going three minutes but I wanted to start off slow. I think next time I'll go for the three minutes. I felt pretty cool out there on the punching bag. I'm there jabbing and punching in my sweats with the hood over my head. I catch my reflection in the glass of my Jeep and I think I look pretty badass! All the while I hear "Eye of the Tiger" playing over and over in my head.
