Fellow boxers, I have a question for you, and it might help me.?

Question

Well I'm a boxer and I'm dealing with a coach that isn't very motivating. And sometimes it's difficult to motivate yourself. I mean boxing is my dream, but their are days that I wonder why I'm even working this hard when women aren't hardly recognized as fighters. Now this question isn't just for women, or boxers, it's also for athletes that have trained so hard until they couldn't feel anything. What motivates you? Maybe then I can borrow some of your ideas. And don't hold back even if it sounds stupid. Thanx.

RED EYES

Answer 1

"when a man has lost the strength in his arms..the strength in his heart will carry him"

this right here makes me keep going

Answer 2

Yo, Red Eyes!  If, and I mean IF you really want to be a boxer, picture in your mind that each time you do boring, meaningless reps it may mean the difference between you taking a left hook to the liver, OR you DELIVERING a right cross to your opponents jaw.  I know that it may sound trite, but its true.  If you can imagine giving pain instead of receiving it, it makes all the training completely worthwhile.

In every sport the easy part is the game or the event or the match.  The hard part is getting prepared to participate.  The harder you train, the easier the activity becomes.

In baseball a hitter doesn't just go to bat and hit a home run.  He practices his swing so that it is simply second nature.

Joe Frazier didn't just come upon his left hook, he practised it in the gym day after day after day.

Its called muscle memory.  The more times you do something, the easier it is to do it when it counts.  

The coach's job is not only to motivate, (although it helps), it is to help you develop the skills that both come naturally and those that are more difficult to learn.  Developing the natural stuff is fun because it feels good and it's alot easier to do.  But, if you concentrate on the hard stuff and really work on it day after day the results are that much more satisfying.

In any case, I hope this answers your question, because I know what you're going through first hand.  Although I'm not a woman I was a boxer (not a very good one) and I know how hard it is.

Stay Strong,

Ted

Answer 3

your soul motivation should be fear of defeat no matter who trains or coaches you the person that has to look at themselves in the mirror is you