[Brandon MacRea]

I'm an amateur boxer first and foremost, one who dabbles in MMA here and there. I'm interested in turning pro, most likely when I'm finished school and get my BA.

For the last month or so my training has suffered. After a slew of minor injuries, lacerations and even a touch of pestilence, I'm finally just about ready to dive back into training. I thought a new log would be a good way to rededicate myself and have a fresh start.

Tale of the Tape:
HEIGHT
6'
WEIGHT
152 (fight weight)
161 (current walk-around weight as of October 4th)
155 (goal)
REACH
75"

Objectives/Goals (Long, long term):
Fighting
-Continue to make the necessarily changes in my style to succeed in the professional boxing world
-Develop better head movement, rely less on parries and footwork, less "European" style
-Improve grappling game, especially wrestling ability, as well as kicks to round out MMA skill set a little better

Conditioning/Warrior Challenges
-Sub-5minute 100 burpee time
-5-minute mile
-60-second 400
-25 pull-ups straight
-Work Capacity 101, 12 circuits in 20 minutes

Lifting/Strength (note: haven't lifted in awhile, these aren't true maxes, just what I've done in the past)
-Deadlift; conventional 405 (PR: 335) zercher 315 (PR: 235)
-Push-press 185 (PR: 160)
-Front squat 185 (PR: 160 I think)
-Weighted dips bw+90
-Weighted pull-ups bw+90
-Power cleans 185 (PR: 165)

Basic Outline:
-Lifting** 2x per week, dropped entirely 2-3 weeks out from fight
-Roadwork/conditioning every training day on top of any other work (boxing club, MMA club, or lifting), loosely following something similar to the 50-day program, but with more running
-Boxing/Stand-up sparring no more than 2x per week (this will be hard, I love hard sparring but I want to be coherent, too. Technical skill sparring doesn't count, that's tit-for-tat stuff)
-Neck work 4-5 times per week. 2 heavy core days, 2 high-rep core days. Grip training 3x a week.

**2-day split:
DAY 1 (weeks A,B,C = that exercise changes each week to listed variation)
1. Frontsquats
2. A: Pushpress / B: SOHP / C: DB See-saw press
3. Weighted pull-ups

DAY 2
1. A: Deadlifts / B: power cleans
2. A: Good Mornings B: Zercher deadlifts
3. Weighted Dips

Here goes nothin'

[woogie12]

Sweet lifting routine.

When are you going to have another boxing match?

[Cap'n]

Yay, a new log to fill up with junk!

[Brandon MacRea]

Thursday, October 4th

AM - Roadwork:

At the track...

400m jog warm-up, hands up throwing punches

5 km run, dropping every lap for 15 push-ups

jog/walk to cool-down

PM - Boxing:

2 rounds shadowboxing

6 rounds heavybag work (working a lot on throwing the uppercut off of the jab, something very handy for lanky freakshows like me for when the short guys try and bull their way in close)

2 rounds double-end bag (looking for punch volume, mostly straight punches, slips and counters, nothing fancy)

2 rounds rope drill (bobbing and weaving and counter off of it. Also advanced down the line behind a jab, emphasizing head movement after each jab to work out angles for the straight right)

4 rounds conditioning drills (rounds 1 + 3 were dumbbell punch-outs/overhead presses/push-ups, 30 second each, twice through the circuit. Rounds 2 + 4 were wall sits, hands up in guard)

25 pull-ups (1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1 as fast as possible, pretty much no rest other than to let go of the bar and shake out arms for a sec)

light non-stop floorwork:
100 crunches
100 weighted neck curls /w harness

[Brandon MacRea]

Wanted to fight on the 12th at the Arnie Boehm tournament but I'm just not in shape for it. Looking for fights in mid November, there's Provincials on the 8th and Nationals on the 28th if I make it, but even some club shows are fine for me I want to get stuck in again fast

p.s. thanks for the routine sucka

[woogie12]

Word.

[Standard]

I can't handle all these new logs. wait bubba has lifting goals??

[woogie12]

Were you saying something about a sig bet for the barrera/pac fight?

I think pacquiao will take it, just so much going for him and so much going against barrera.

[Brandon MacRea]

Yeah, I'd take a sig bet on it... I see Pacman as the clear favorite and if I were putting money on it I'd bet on Manny but my heart says MAB by UD. Interested?

[woogie12]

I think I am, I think Pac will take it by TKO, sometime in the later rounds.