[Diego Lara]

Wed 12/19: No fights today. Slept in a little and then 2m run at the park.

Gym time: Thought I might spar Lori or this girl Crystal today, but instead found myself the only one at the gym for most of the morning.

1 round stretch.
1 round ring jacks.
2 rounds shadowboxing. Still stepping in with the cross, instead of planting the right foot and pivoting. Need to work on that.
4 rounds heavybag. Standard work, need to pivot more on the cross. Mike says, "We gon work da sh-- outta you today!" He wasn't kidding.
4 rounds mitts, one break between 2nd and 3rd. Mostly one-twos, then start throwing hook and uppercut combos. I'm dying by the 2nd round, and by the end of the 4th, I'm swallowing the throwup that keeps rising in my throat. Still, it's what I needed to get back in the swing of things, and I can't lift my arms to the speedbag to save my life, so we go on to:

Conditioning:
3 sets of ab machine pyramid.
3x10 v-ups.

That's all I can manage for Wed. Sparring or not, it was one of the hardest workouts I've had of late. Mike has a knack for pushing you to the limits of your endurance, and then showing you that that percieved "limit" is only a mental roadblock which can be overcome by sheer will. Amen and firefox out.