Nerdcore Boxing

When you’re legs are fresh you have a chance. You can run, you can bend and body punch correctly, you can sit down in your punches and you can explode forward. But when your legs are dead, so are you.

I’m always in awe of how important leg strength, leg explosiveness and endurance is in boxing. It seems like I’m continually re-prioritizing my training and putting more emphasis on conditioning my legs. To be honest I usually don’t push my legs as hard as I should. I should be doing more hills, more sprints and more stairs. And I should be doing more leg related calisthenics.

Why don’t I push to the limit? Because sore legs interfere with my training. It’s really a mental barrier: I want fresh legs when I spar.

But I need to push to that next plateau. I’m not going to get KO’ed by my regular training partners, but I might in a fight if my legs are weak. So I’ve resolved to get over the fear of ruining my training with sore legs. It’s going to be a major dose of sprints, hills and stairs for me.