GUYS HEALTH – LOOK AFTER YOURSELF

With this being the new year and all of those resolutions still more than likely uncovered by you yet, it seems that you need a little bit of a wake-up call in order to make your first steps into becoming a new healthier, fitter you.

According to research surveys over recent years, the desire to get fit is one of the biggest resolutions that is made as the new year passes into motion but the chances of you actually getting up and putting those into action are slimmer than you could even be bothered to think about.

So you know that you need to get fit, you might even have the time to be able to head to the gym and hit the treadmill but you simply don’t have the desire or the belief that you will be able to turn your life, health and general wellbeing around. So here I am to give you my little tip that will make you into an animal in no time as long as you stick with it.

Boxing is one of the most demanding sports that you can imagine, the need to be able to retain lightening speed, balance and power while avoiding the potentially crushing blow being thrown at you by an opponent can leave you thinking that the sport is not right for you, but boxing is for everyone!

It has been widely revealed that some of the most intensive gym workouts amount to some close relation to a workout used within the training programmes of boxers from all over the world, simple things like skipping can be made into a fat burning exercise that will leave you gasping for air but feeling like the next Mohammed Ali.

Even if you are not looking to join the sport to compete, there is a lot that it can offer you towards your fitness goals, while still installing confidence and fitness into your everyday life and for those that have taken the steps to joining a boxing training programme have enjoyed it too.

I know that the boxing news media can make things look like you are about to get your face knocked through to the other side of your head, your teeth will shatter and hit the floor for you to gather them up and that you will come up against an opponent that is almost twice your body weight, but that is the professional game, not the exercise aspect of boxing.

I challenge you to step up to the mark, join a boxing class for a minimum of six weeks and I’m sure that at least 90% of you will continue to attend the classes throughout the year, if you are one of the 10% that quit, that’s either you have no heart or desire to change or you have walked into the training gym of Manny Pacquiao and didn’t tell him that you weren’t his new sparring partner!

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The big fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manual Marquez is due to take place on the 12^th of November 2011 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Any boxing match is always tense and a good time to remind ourselves of what can go wrong during boxing.

The worse boxing death, still engraved in the minds of many, has to be the fight between Duk-Koo Kim and Ray Mancini.  They fought each other for an incredibly impressive fourteen rounds in Ceasar’s Palace, the outdoor arena in Las Vegas.  In round 13, Mancini attacked with all that he had and landed 39 punches.  In the next round, Mancini landed two straight punches on Kim’s head and he dropped to the floor.  Although he was able to get up before the referee counted to ten, hence not being knocked out, the fight was immediately stopped and Kim was rushed to hospital where he died four days later.  Following Kim’s death, both the referee of the bout and Kim’s mother committed suicide.  Mancini did continue to box until 1999, but he was never the same again and suffered from extreme depression for many years, feeling he had blood on his hands.

This awful boxing incident changed some of the rules of boxing, mainly that the maximum number of rounds is now 12, rather than 15.

This is just one of many examples of boxing gone wrong, and it caused great discussion on the validity of boxing as a sport.  The effects of this accident, as you can see, were far reaching and affected many people, even those outside the ring who were witness to this fight.  A tremendous feeling of guilt fell over them, as they cheered for a man’s death, and many suffered from serious depression afterwards.

We invite you to watch Pacquiao vs Marquez live streaming and judge yourself whether boxing is to dangerous or not!

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