I have toyed on many occasions with doing this myself. I entered a drawing in my mid 20s for free boxing lessons and received a call only to find out it was for kickboxing, not boxing as they had advertised, and I passed. I'm 50 now so I would be in this same boat.
Look forward to where that book takes you as boxing is the one sport you can really hook me in with and I read a lot of biographies related to. I don't know if you avoid other books so as not to be influenced but the Rope Burns story collection by F.X. Toole (contains the story Eastwood turned into a film, Million Dollar Baby) and his novel released after his death, Pound for Pound are both great fiction from a former cut man.
I felt this post for sure. After taking 6 months off, I joined a gym here in Chile and I have been feeling so much better mentally and physically. I missed the soreness that came from putting myself to the test on a regular basis. My father-in-law, himself a gym rat, said something to me once that I still think about all the time: “One day, you will go to the gym and bench press for the last time, and you probably won’t even know it”.
I have toyed on many occasions with doing this myself. I entered a drawing in my mid 20s for free boxing lessons and received a call only to find out it was for kickboxing, not boxing as they had advertised, and I passed. I'm 50 now so I would be in this same boat.
Look forward to where that book takes you as boxing is the one sport you can really hook me in with and I read a lot of biographies related to. I don't know if you avoid other books so as not to be influenced but the Rope Burns story collection by F.X. Toole (contains the story Eastwood turned into a film, Million Dollar Baby) and his novel released after his death, Pound for Pound are both great fiction from a former cut man.
I felt this post for sure. After taking 6 months off, I joined a gym here in Chile and I have been feeling so much better mentally and physically. I missed the soreness that came from putting myself to the test on a regular basis. My father-in-law, himself a gym rat, said something to me once that I still think about all the time: “One day, you will go to the gym and bench press for the last time, and you probably won’t even know it”.
This is rad! Loved reading it
Always dug that novel. Glad to see you returning to it!