I’m 58 and I lift 3 times a week. I rotate my workout by doing upper twice and lower once then the following week lower twice and upper once. I like the schedule and I getting good results. They just opened a boxing gym and I took one of their classes and enjoyed it very much. My question is this I would like to lift in the morning (Tuesday and Thursday) and take the boxing on those nights.
And of course Saturday just lift. I’m just wondering what some of your opinions might be or some input. I’m going to try it for a month and see what happens.
[quote]dant52 wrote:
I’m 58 and I lift 3 times a week. I rotate my workout by doing upper twice and lower once then the following week lower twice and upper once. I like the schedule and I getting good results. They just opened a boxing gym and I took one of their classes and enjoyed it very much. My question is this I would like to lift in the morning (Tuesday and Thursday) and take the boxing on those nights. And of course Saturday just lift. I’m just wondering what some of your opinions might be or some input. I’m going to try it for a month and see what happens.
Thanks
Dant52
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[quote]CrushKillDestroy wrote:
Absolutely, do it. Alter diet and increase sleep as necessary.[/quote]
That’s exactly what a friend of mine who is a trainer said to me. The toughest part will be getting up in the morning to workout I’m not a morning workout person. But I will give it my best shot.
I think you should definitely do it as well, but it would be a good idea to adjust your training slightly when you get started. For the first week of classes, I’d cut some of the volume out of the Tuesday/Thursday morning workouts, maybe 20-30%, but keep the intensity. Then you can add at least some of that work back into the Saturday workout.
The advantage to that plan would be that since you’re not a morning person, it would make those first few workouts easier to manage until you get used to it. It would also leave you fresher for the boxing classes so you can get the most out of them at night. After the first week you can see how it goes and slowly add some volume back into those morning workouts.
Bad idea. There are some examples of boxing and lifting routines in the combat forum. Boxing is very physically demanding. I thought the same thing. Oh, I’ll just train 2x a day… Wrong…
I took a boxing class where 2 powerlifters dropped out because it hurt their performance. I dropped back to no lifting on boxing days and no shoulder days the day before boxing class.
[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:
Bad idea. There are some examples of boxing and lifting routines in the combat forum. Boxing is very physically demanding. I thought the same thing. Oh, I’ll just train 2x a day… Wrong…
I took a boxing class where 2 powerlifters dropped out because it hurt their performance. I dropped back to no lifting on boxing days and no shoulder days the day before boxing class.
Boxing is great btw. Good luck[/quote]
I understand what your saying and that’s why my trainer said if I’m going to do it I would be better off liftng in the morning and boxing at night becase of the way I have my routine set up. Lets say I do shoulders on Tuesday morning and box that night I don’t do any upper body again until saturday except Thursday night boxing but I still have a day in between till Saturday.