You Are What You Practice
If you have ever participated in any organized sport or had a coach/trainer/teacher/etc… that has worked with you for any length of time, you’ll inevitably hear something like this:
You Are What You Practice
Here at EP-fit you often hear me harping on putting an effort into your investment. Because consistently making little changes to enhance your life quality is not much different than managing your personal finances. The only difference is that the fitness world is way less volatile than the Wall Street world. And your fitness portfolio is even easier to manage or predict than your investment portfolio.
After you pick a plan that fits your lifestyle goal – what you will get at the end is what you put in every month. So in that sense, there is no real difference between EP-fit and your 401k strategy.
How and what you practice will become you. It’s just like when you’re in college, how you study will usually determine your grades or what you practice in personal finances will be reflected by your credit score.
Powder and I have seen a lot of improvement from you guys recently. Kudos to all of ya!
Most of you have been doing the boxing training since March and despite the progress (opposite of congress) in order for you to make the jump to the next stage – from beginner to intermediate level – you need to consider some private training time to hammer those fundamentals down.
There is no magic to boxing – fundamental boxing is BOXING. Even at the pro level, if you don’t have your fundamentals down, you’re hedging on your natural talents to carry you through a fight. In any sport, most pros max out their fundamentals before ‘customizing’ their techniques to meet the demands.
And that bring us to this…
Powder is offering private training to EP-fitters – 12 sessions for $240, that’s $20 per session!!! Each session will be technique oriented designed to work on your fundamentals. It is NOT a conditioning class. So unless you wanted to burnout after 1-on-1, your strength and conditioning will come from our Monday to Wednesday’s sessions.
If you ever had any kind of private training, e.g. golf, personal training, communication, languages skills, shooting, pickup artistry, better sex, and so on and so forth, you know this rate is a STEAL.
Once you got it (the fundamentals) you will always have it and no one can take it away from you. The growth rate will depend on how much (practice) you put into it.
Straight from Powder’s syllabus:
1. Your fight stance or the proper body alignment.
2. The footwork, such as pivoting on your feet as you throw punches.
3. Breathing technique that will save your life!
4. The importance of relaxing.
5. The Jab and why it’s so valuable.
6. The Straight right.
7. The infamous left hook.
8. The Uppercuts.
9. Defensive techniques and drills (ex: catching, blocking).
10. Weight transfer from lower body (real power) to upper body.
11. Throw tricky combinations.
12. Discover your fighting style.
13. Counter punching.
14. Video feedbacks.
I’m definitely not saying you have to do these private trainings. And I’m DEFINITELY NOT trying to hard sell you Powder’s program. You know me better than that.
I’m a huge fan of specialized 1-on-1 trainings – they played a critical role in my own development. Especially in our society, any edge one can get will help that person to compete or secure the position against clueless Joes.
You will not find too many boxing trainers with Powder’s credential and dedication regardless where you are. From my experience, most of the boxing instructors I have met are MMA guys masked as boxing trainers. There is nothing wrong with MMA. I love MMA. When I used to live in Minnesota, I trained in a MMA gym called “The American Grit Academy”. But to truly understand the “sweet science”, you have to learn it from the specialists. Not from the general practitioners.
So there you have it. What do you want your EP-fit LifeStyle portfolio to look like? Your call =)
