I've made a promise to myself that I wont be getting on the scales during this challenge. I've gotten my head around the fact that the scales are a pretty useless tool for this exercise and in the past I've been way too "scale weight" focused. I've been training hard, but the training is only […]

DOMS As expected, a day or two after completing my first training session, I'm struggling to lift an arm, to turn to my left, or my right and there are muscles somewhere in my mid-section that clearly haven't seen any of this exercise for some time. That's DOMS for you, or Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, […]

So Day 1 of training is in the books. Whilst I ease myself into the diet from Monday, I made sure I didn't get up out of bed until I've polished off a massive cup of water. Rule #1: If you want to save yourself from an instantly squeemish stomach, don't gulp down ice cold […]

Self preservation aside, the training is a pretty obvious component of the next 8 weeks. As the name of this site would suggest, the route to physical fitness lay in the Gentleman's Art of Boxing. I personally felt that there was a very technique and technical approach to boxing in general after having a couple […]