Introductions

My name is Ian, and I have never had a fight in my life (there I said it). Actually I have had one or two minor skirmishes in school ... vs Stephen Wincote age 6, and vs Mark Laven age 13 ... but that's it. I don't want to fight anyone in real-life, its just not me. I only admit that to give you a bit of context for this project. Over the next 12 months I am going to document our journey to become amateur boxers. Haha, I said amateur as if there's the option to be professional ... I am 32 years old, will be 33 in July, I work as a Sales Manager for a large software corporation, and I live in Ottawa, Canada with my wife of 5 and a half years and my dog, Fern. I am in reasonable shape, judge for yourself when you see the introductory video, but don't judge too hard because I ate a load of junk food and drank a load of booze before those shots to make the footage 12 months from now look even more impressive. Konrad is an Economist. I was pretty surprised when he said that he wanted to join in when I told him about the plan to transform myself into a boxer over the course of 12 months, with the goal of having a real boxing match on a proper bill. Konrad is younger than me. I would guess that he is fitter too, but I think its fair to say that we both have some hard work to do to keep this from being downright dangerous. Marcus is a Market Analyst, and is probably the fittest of the three of us starting the training. As of today Marcus has not commited to actually fighting but he wants to train, and I think he may get into it. I don't know, no pressure. Firuz is filming it all. I explained the plan to him about 2 months ago, and he liked the idea of tracking rather average, normal men trying to get fit enough not to get humiliated by some little shithead first time we step into the ring.


Buying the gloves at Canadian Tire

Friday, April 25, 2008

mapmyrun.com

Feeling quite pleased with myself, because we've started the workouts quite seriously and I'm already feeling pretty good. I'm even seeing a few results I think although its hard to tell since I always suck in my gut in front of a mirror, pure reflex and I cant help it. Anyway, Joey showed me this website which is really helping to track what I'm doing. So far in Apr I've done 4 x home workouts (by http://www.tranz4m.com/), 3 x circuit training with Marcus and Konrad (Konrad is lifting around 30-50% heavier weights than me, slightly worrying but he's on course to be a heavyweight and I'd rather fight in the featherweight class if at all possible), and 2 x pre-season football (soccer) training. According to the website I have burned 3,945 calories doing it. I'm not sure whether this is a good measure but it tells you anyway. Also according to the site its 0.49 miles to Marcus's gym from my house and since I'm jogging there and back I'm counting 3 miles of running too http://www.mapmyrun.com/

Boxing training starts next Tuesday
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