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Since aprox. 1997, I go boxing once or twice a week. The training is happening at the univeristy, which makes it very cheap. The downside is that there is no training when there are university holidays (of which there are a lot: the whole February, July, September and October, and some weeks scatterd between)
So today I went there for the first time since mid-January. The training happens from 6:40 to 8:15, so I have to get up at 6:00 and am back home at 8:45. I can now literaly feel my muscles get sore. We did the usual program, which involves:
After attending the training for a month, I usually make all excercises, but today (after more than a month of doing no excercise at all (besides cycling to work)) I did maybe half of the push-ups properly and the rest with my knees on the floor.
The real good thing about boxing is that it is a perfect training for the back. Thus I hardly ever have back aces, even after sitting in front of the computer for way to long.
Original: http://use.perl.org/~domm/journal/23547
but of course the style and techniques in kung fu are a bit more complex and elegant (some say that chokes, locks, elbows, knees and kicks to joints are ungentlemanly). we also do sparring and I found that immensely tiring - especially after 1.5 hours of training (patterns, workout, cross-training, drills, etc). It really is hard work avoiding a good pummelling after a work out.
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