We have clawed ourselves as a people to a pretty good life. A place where we can over eat and hide away from our real problems. With all the beautiful advancements in our world we are confronted everyday with how we can keep the good qualities of our species, remove or redirect some of the bad qualities and build ourselves to be the best version of ourselves. I believe that Boxing can be a big part of that journey.
Turn Negative to Positive
Have you ever felt so frustrated or annoyed you wanted to punch someone? Most people have. It is a natural feeling that has stayed with us since our more primitive times as a species. Now, in most areas of society that isn’t acceptable behavior anymore, but that doesn’t mean we should suppress that feeling. Often, if you suppress feelings you can get away with it for a little while, but then eventually they boil over and you end up snapping at your Boss or your significant other. A healthy way to release all the pent up emotions you may have is with a high quality Boxing Workout.
When you throw punches every day it makes you punched out for a little while. I’ve worked with so many clients who after adopting an intense Boxing routine feel much less stress and tension in their day to day lives. High stress in our society is a serious issue which can cause high blood pressure and a depressed immune system. Exercise and especial Boxing exercise is one of the sure fire ways you can release any anger, have fun and get in the best shape of your life!
Chess Not Checkers
Boxing can appear to be a very primitive sport and while it is the oldest sport with very primitive undertones and emotions in it, it is as complicated and technically involved as a chess match. Many times a stronger and better conditioned boxer can lose to a superior strategist. A great example of this is the Mayweather vs McGregor fight. Mayweather TKO’d a man who was 11 years his junior, outweighed him by 20 pounds the day of the fight and who was training like an animal to be in condition for the bout. All this didn’t matter because Mayweather had a winning strategy and the skill to execute it. The power of the right strategy can mean the difference between success and defeat in the ring and in life.
Through training Boxing for sport or fitness you can learn the strategies of the game and become well versed in its tactics. Once your mind starts thinking in terms of strategies in Boxing, you can use this mindset in very area of your life. So much of success in Boxing is pattern recognition. If you know what your opponent is going to do, because you know their patterns, you can beat them easily. Same thing in your life, you can identify the patterns for success in an area, identify the challenges, better prepare for them and win. Sometimes you need to adopt the strategy of a brawler in Boxing or in your life and just drive forward, non stop throwing bombs until your opponent falls. Other times you need to sit back and counter and use your opponent's momentum against themselves. The more strategic you can become in your life and in Boxing the better success you will have.
Get Tough
We live as good or better than the most pampered kings and queens did 300 years ago and we have grown soft because of it. Now many people die from not moving and overeating. We use to die hunting or fighting for a better life. What we view now as pain is our phone not working or the power being shut off or someone cutting us off in traffic. Most of us will never experience the day to day struggle that so many of our ancestors felt. That pain and suffering was an important part of our develop to grow fortitude, grit and character as a species. Through time we have lost that toughness to work through extreme pain and adversity to be what we are truly capable of. So many of us have thrown in the towel in our life when we start to get out of our comfort zone and start to experience some of the necessary pain that is required for real progress.
The reason why we don’t push through hard situations to unleash our full potential is often times because we lack perspective. Boxing gives great perspective. If you are worried about an interview or a speech and have sparred in Boxing, you know the pain of the Boxing session is far greater than anything you’re fearing could go wrong in your interview or presentation. Boxing is a better sport to learn this toughness and perspective because losing doesn’t mean getting a bad score or being dropped from the team. Losing means getting punched repeatedly, very hard or getting knockout! When someone says metaphorically “they got me on the ropes” or “I got knocked down, but I’ll get back up again” they are saying how they feel, but in boxing that is what really happened. In Boxing you have to learn to fight through the pain and keep going. In basketball you can say “we beat the heck out of them”, but when you say that in Boxing that is what actually, physically happened.
In order to become tough you have to put yourself in tough situations. Boxing is one area that you can carve the muscles of toughness in a healthy way. A place where everyday you challenge yourself and your training partners to not only do more, but be more.
Humility Is Healthy
The Final Bell
If you are interested in turning negative emotions into positive ones, being a strategist, being truly tough and resilient and having humility then a High Quality Boxing facility is the right place for you. Like all things in life it is hard before it get's easy. So don't give up on the first sign of defeat. If you did that as a child you would of never walked or rode a bicycle. As we get older we often get set it our ways and begin the downward slide to our demise, but it doesn't have to be like that. Be a continuous learner and you will stay young for many, many years.
