Coach Ian – Week In Review: (10/18/2020)
Coach Ian – Week in Review: REMINDER TO VOTE! Also – happy birthday Coach Vincent, a Teofimo Lopez – Lomachenko recap, workouts while traveling, boxing drills, how to keep gyms safe during COVID, and more!
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Boxing and Safety During COVID-19
Boxing and Safety During COVID-19: While we’re all adapting to “a new normal”, we’ve had to modify our workouts to comply with county regulations and ensure our members’ safety. Rather than stopping what we do, I’ve tried to make small adaptations without compromising the effectiveness of our workouts. 👊🏽
The Sweet Science
Like a game of chess, a boxing match has an infinite number of combinations and different ways a fight can play out.
In the beginning of your development, I find it much more important to understand themes (changing levels/speed, countering and feinting, fighting on the inside vs the outside, etc) than to just memorize combinations. Just like in chess you learn basic strategies and tactics (center control, when to castle, forks, pins, discovered openings, etc) before memorizing openings.
Coach Ian – Week In Review: (10/11/2020)
Coach Ian – Week in Review: Dreamland Boxing Updates, A Slave who Boxed for his Freedom in the 1700’s, PerformanceGaines, and more!
Coach Ian – Week In Review: (10/04/2020)
Coach Ian – Week in Review: Dreamland Boxing Updates, Donald Trump’s COVID Supplementation, The Importance of Shadowboxing, PerformanceGaines, and air quality tips!
Shadowboxing: A Crucial Part of Your Boxing Training
Shadowboxing isn’t just a mindless warm-up! How to turn shadowboxing from a routine warm-up to an essential part of training for competition.
Community Spotlight: Chris Gaines (PerformanceGaines)
Chris Gaines is the founder/owner of PerformanceGaines. PerformanceGaines is a functional fitness and wellness gym in Palo Alto, CA. In this interview, we talk about Chris’ background in Football, Rugby, and Bodybuilding, his training philosophies, him being part of the crew for John Tarlton a cyclist who biked in RAAM (Race Across America) to raise funds for the Stanford Cancer Center (as featured in the Netflix documentary), his thoughts in minimalist shoes, and various podcasts and books (Muscles and Meridians, Atomic Habit, Art of Possibility, Consilience, etc.) that he’s reading today.
Coach Ian – Week In Review: (9/27/2020)
Coach Ian – Week in Review: Dreamland Boxing Updates, Running Revolution, Big SURreal Updates, and how to engage your glutes for Running
Coach Ian – Week In Review: (9/20/2020)
Coach Ian – Week in Review: Too Legit Fitness interview, Dreamland Boxing Updates, Preventing Shin Splints and reading Air Quality metrics.
Community Spotlight: Bertrand Newson (Too Legit Fitness)
Bertrand Newson is the founder of Too Legit Fitness (established 2011). Too Legit Fitness is a well-known training program in the Bay Area with over 700 members and hosts the official training program for the Silicon Valley Half Marathon and has coached several athletes (including me!) in long distance running and pursuing many different fitness goals of all ability levels.