Gym in Navalur
This week started off with a training session with Katra Bryson, a boxing specialist at thirtysevendegrees (www.thirtysevendegrees.co.uk) and founder of Punch in the Park (www.punchinthepark.co.uk). It was a lovely day so Kat took me to the top floor of the thirtysevendegrees gym Olympia overlooking the sights of London – very nice. As we warmed up with shuttle runs and burpees outside on the decking, I cotton on to the fact Kat is going to train me hard – she only trains you for 30 minutes at a time on the basis her sessions are hard and intense. I usually train for an hour, but if it’s good enough for Caprice (Kat trains her) then it’s certainly good for me.
Once warm, we start with the basics and it’s obvious my sessions with CJ (cjsfitness.co.uk) are paying off. Kat seems impressed with my moves and we progress pretty quickly. We start with a few three-minute rounds of straight shots, hooks and upper cuts before shaking things up with Tabata training, a painful way of burning fat fast. Basically you do a move as many times as you can for 20 seconds, then take 10 seconds rest. You do this eight times. We combine squats with jump squats on to a platform, and by round four my legs (and face) are burning.
Gym near Navalur
Lucy and KatA boxer herself and in training for her first fight, Kat also shows me body punches, which are very similar to uppercuts, but lower, giving blows to the ribs. ‘This is a perfect opportunity to hit your opponent lower down,’ explains Kat. ‘This should result in your partner bringing their elbows down to protect their ribs, which means you can then knock their chin back up with an uppercut before finishing them off with a hook – perfect.’ We practice this combination and I imagine doing this in the ring. It’s nice to get an insight into how combinations go together and I picture my opponent in front of me as I punch.
Keen to work my lower body too, Kat shows me some kickboxing kicks. It’s nice to give my legs a workout, as my arms are throbbing after the Tabata punches. Twenty seconds of intense moves is a long time, especially when you repeat the 20 seconds eight times – ouch. Buzzing from the tough session I head to the office – how I’m going to stay awake for the afternoon I really don’t know.
With little time to recover, I’m at Nkd ambition (nkdambition.com) with CJ the very next day. We practise what I’ve learnt over previous weeks and add a right hook to compliment the left hook we tried last week. Now I have a few skills under my belt, our rounds of combinations are lasting longer than previous weeks and sessions are getting much tougher.
Gym near Navalur
After 45 minutes of punching, he shakes up my metabolism with a dose of MCT (mixed circuit training) combining kettle bell exercises and body weight moves. We start with a minute of kettle bell snatches on each arm, with a minute of squats sandwiched in the middle. Tabata-style burpees followed, before finishing off with kettle bell Turkish get-ups (when you lay in the floor holding a kettle bell vertically overhead and then have to get up keeping the bell there at all times). Once again CJ has killed me! Is this ever going to get easier?
What I learnt this week: Training at a high intensity for short periods of time (like Tabata training) increases the demand for oxygen in the body, which can burn fat and increase excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), the amount of calories you burn even at rest. Go full out for 20 seconds and then rest for 10. Repeat this eight times.
Fitness in Navalur
This week started off with a training session with Katra Bryson, a boxing specialist at thirtysevendegrees (www.thirtysevendegrees.co.uk) and founder of Punch in the Park (www.punchinthepark.co.uk). It was a lovely day so Kat took me to the top floor of the thirtysevendegrees gym Olympia overlooking the sights of London – very nice. As we warmed up with shuttle runs and burpees outside on the decking, I cotton on to the fact Kat is going to train me hard – she only trains you for 30 minutes at a time on the basis her sessions are hard and intense. I usually train for an hour, but if it’s good enough for Caprice (Kat trains her) then it’s certainly good for me.
Once warm, we start with the basics and it’s obvious my sessions with CJ (cjsfitness.co.uk) are paying off. Kat seems impressed with my moves and we progress pretty quickly. We start with a few three-minute rounds of straight shots, hooks and upper cuts before shaking things up with Tabata training, a painful way of burning fat fast. Basically you do a move as many times as you can for 20 seconds, then take 10 seconds rest. You do this eight times. We combine squats with jump squats on to a platform, and by round four my legs (and face) are burning.
Gym near Navalur
Lucy and KatA boxer herself and in training for her first fight, Kat also shows me body punches, which are very similar to uppercuts, but lower, giving blows to the ribs. ‘This is a perfect opportunity to hit your opponent lower down,’ explains Kat. ‘This should result in your partner bringing their elbows down to protect their ribs, which means you can then knock their chin back up with an uppercut before finishing them off with a hook – perfect.’ We practice this combination and I imagine doing this in the ring. It’s nice to get an insight into how combinations go together and I picture my opponent in front of me as I punch.
Keen to work my lower body too, Kat shows me some kickboxing kicks. It’s nice to give my legs a workout, as my arms are throbbing after the Tabata punches. Twenty seconds of intense moves is a long time, especially when you repeat the 20 seconds eight times – ouch. Buzzing from the tough session I head to the office – how I’m going to stay awake for the afternoon I really don’t know.
With little time to recover, I’m at Nkd ambition (nkdambition.com) with CJ the very next day. We practise what I’ve learnt over previous weeks and add a right hook to compliment the left hook we tried last week. Now I have a few skills under my belt, our rounds of combinations are lasting longer than previous weeks and sessions are getting much tougher.
Gym near Navalur
After 45 minutes of punching, he shakes up my metabolism with a dose of MCT (mixed circuit training) combining kettle bell exercises and body weight moves. We start with a minute of kettle bell snatches on each arm, with a minute of squats sandwiched in the middle. Tabata-style burpees followed, before finishing off with kettle bell Turkish get-ups (when you lay in the floor holding a kettle bell vertically overhead and then have to get up keeping the bell there at all times). Once again CJ has killed me! Is this ever going to get easier?
What I learnt this week: Training at a high intensity for short periods of time (like Tabata training) increases the demand for oxygen in the body, which can burn fat and increase excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), the amount of calories you burn even at rest. Go full out for 20 seconds and then rest for 10. Repeat this eight times.
Fitness in Navalur
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