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So, how’s the boxing going? Have we achieved any results yet?
Yes, a little. But it should also be said that we might have cheated a few times, maybe we haven’t exactly been training two times a week …
But we have managed to do a few workout sessions, and we already feel a little firmer, stronger and healthier.

But oh my, it was tough in the beginning!
Here’s our first week:
Session 1:
Everything feels fine. We are going to get so fit! Motivation is on top.

Session 2:
Still going strong. Feeling good, motivation has waned somewhat. But what the heck, if you want to look fit you just have to keep on going.

Session 3:
The thought of eating a pound of worms seems more pleasant than actually dealing with today’s workout.

Now there’s only one thing left that can get us to continue, persistence!

We decide to be more stubborn than our sofa lying alter egos.
Plus, the times you get through the workout program, even though it’s the last thing on earth you want to do, it feels a thousand times better afterwards! Adrenaline is pumping in your body, and you feel like Superman himself.

So even though I have been stuck in long discussions with myself, thinking about action plans that could be applied if today’s training session would be canceled. I devised detailed persuasion plans for Martin on the reasons why we should not work out today, but we still did it.
And I promise, just do a couple of workouts and after a while you’ll be totally hooked on how good you feel and you will actually like to work out even more. I know, sounds totally weird, but it’s like that. The more you do it the more fun it becomes. Tough truth, which probably a lot of us known since we were kids, I  just didn’t want to believe in it…

Ok, stop with the blathering!
Lets go do some workout, watch out superman, here we come!

I know that a lot of people who join ShapeUp Club have low activity jobs, and sit down most of their time during the day.

And since I started working fulltime in the company I’ve been sitting down a lot more than I usually did while I was studying (which is all day, every day now…). Not good.

I decided that I needed to do something about this! What?

Well, according to self research I know I’m very skilled in joining gyms, and very bad at dragging my lazy bum in there.
I needed to find an exercise I could do without the hassle of leaving my home once I finally get back from the office, something that was motivating enough for me to keep going and it therefore also needed to give me quick results.

So I went wild and bought myself one pair of boxing gloves + mitts. Very well.

But who was I suppose to release all my inner aggression at? Martin of course.

I’ve been doing boxing before and loved the result and the feeling of being super strong (which I maybe wasn’t, but however, just the feeling kept me going).

Martin hasn’t ever done exercis.. I mean boxing before. I therefore hereby give you the story of how Martin got Shaped Up by punching his colleague in the face… (which he probably will do after reading this text…).
No I’m sorry, I’m only joking of course, but our plan is to do some boxing twice a week.
And to give myself a kick in my lazy bum I hereby promise you to show some sort of weekly result on how it’s going.

//Tove