Vanda Boxing Club

Have to give up the fags and booze as only 45 days to go until the big fight. Training has started in earnest and it is a punishing regime with three sessions which are an hour long each week and a sparring session each Saturday. In between work, my accountancy course and the training I [...]

I am fighting in the IFS White Collar Boxing match in Singapore to be held on the 17th March 2012. Just to give you an idea White Collar Boxing is a chance for people who want to compete in a highly competitive boxing match, but have little or no prior experience, to fight in a [...]

At last, things appear to be getting easier! Easy, you say? No… Just easier! I think last night must have been my best training session yet! I wasn’t lying on the floor after circuits, my sweatpants weren’t soaked to the ankles and I didn’t have to curl up in a ball on my sofa straight [...]

There has been an air of trepidation throughout the course of this week.  We all knew what we had signed up for.  We all knew that before long we’d hear those fateful words “Gloves on, head gear on, mouth guards in”.  We all knew that before long we’d be alone in the ring facing an [...]

… that’s the best description I could think to use for Wednesdays “cool down” —  it was serious torture! 25 mins of INTENSE all over, interval, body conditioning. Push ups, mountain climbs, ab crunches, Russian twists, explosive star jumps and of course my nemesis… burpies! They really are the Nazi’s of exercise. Bringing upset, pain, and [...]

I thought the first few sessions went pretty well… then there was the Christmas break. Ugh. I currently seem to be lacking the fitness of my peers, but I am still claiming that’s down to being sick over Christmas. Alexis doesn’t buy it. I’m not sure I buy it anymore! I certainly have my work cut out [...]

It seems only too appropriate that I am writing my first blog for the IFS WCB on a week ending on Friday 13th !!! So, this is my first week back into official training with Alexis and the crew after my 3 week layoff over the Christmas and NY period. Even though I was present [...]

I got a little bit crazy last week. Thursday morning, I woke up at 4am feeling 150% fit. I am still very grateful that I did not get killed by MRT after falling through the emergency exit. Thus, I did not want to run the risk of getting killed by my neighbors for vacuuming my [...]