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.
Thanks, Steve! I haven't read F.X. will definitely check him out.
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 just switched up from two nights a week to three mornings a week. We'll see how it goes!
This is rad! Loved reading it
Thank you!
Always dug that novel. Glad to see you returning to it!
Thank you, Mark! I gotta finish the WIP and then I'm on it!