Staying motivated

[amy]

How do you stay motivated when you think you're going to have a fight and your opponent backs out? This has happened to me more than anyone I know. :twisted: I'm finding it really hard to stay on top and mentally focused, it's hard to get pumped up for a fight when in the back of my mind I'm always thinking....oh, well they'll cancel anyways. :roll:

:fire:fire:fire

[Relentless]

start fighting guys.

[Chicago Nights]

They are cancelling because they know you're working hard. Slack off, and they'll show up. Bank on it.

Happens alot in life too.

[amy]

They are cancelling because they know you're working hard. Slack off, and they'll show up. Bank on it.

Happens alot in life too.

I'm about to do that.

[amy]

start fighting guys.

A: Not allowed.

B: I'm not of the same school as Pudding. Although I only have guys to spar with and they are all bigger than me, I'll be the first to admit that if I got hit by a guy my size, he's going to hit harder than a girl my size.

[zippy]

I'm about to do that.


Show up in the gym with a cigarette hanging out of your mouth, complaining about the hangover your trying to get over. Theyll be lining up trying to fight you.

[amy]

The thing is that she has twice the experience that I do and outweighed me by 10 pounds. You'd think she'd jump at the chance for an easy win.

[zippy]

The thing is that she has twice the experience that I do and outweighed me by 10 pounds. You'd think she'd jump at the chance for an easy win.

Sounds like a vieled compliment to me.

[amy]

Well, she could have saved the compliments until after we fought. :(

[pudding]

A: Not allowed.

B: I'm not of the same school as Pudding. Although I only have guys to spar with and they are all bigger than me, I'll be the first to admit that if I got hit by a guy my size, he's going to hit harder than a girl my size.


Just move your head.

[amy]

Just move your head.

Thanks for the advice, that was really helpful. :thumbsup

[avk47]

Amy, I'm willing to bet that my whole boxing experience was worse than yours ;) . Just ask Kolya about it. I was almost 200 pounds since I was 14 years old, and as a very young heavyweight I just couldn't get matched. I won tournaments by default. On average, I'd get about 1 fight a year, sometimes none. For this reason I'd go on spells of slacking off and missing training. It was not until I became a senior that I started getting matched relatively frequently. It was obviously very hard as a teen with lots of destractions around me to make the sacrifices required for boxing, given that I'd get no fights to show my hard work, but from about age 16 I got disciplined anyway. If I had kept stable training when I was younger than that, rather than showing up 2x a month, I'd be a lot beter now as a senior. Same goes for you. When you will get fights, you'll do beter if you had stayed focused.