One of the exercises I do at the gym is boxing. Normally it’s with Paul or Scott my personal trainers. However this morning Scott wasn’t in and Paul had to see to an induction, so John was asked if he would like to be my partner.
As I do boxing at home John is used to being my sparing partner so he was quite happy to help.
We were half way through our boxing session in the Kinesis room when a guy came into the room to do some weight training. We got chatting to him and he explained that he was a body builder.
I told him I was impressed with the amount of weights that he was lifting and he replied that he was impressed with my boxing.
“Come and be my sparing partner”, I asked him.
“Ok”, he said, so John handed him the sparing gloves.
After fifteen seconds of me punching the gloves I could see he was finding it uncomfortable.
“Are you ok”, I asked.
“Fine”, he lied.
Another fifteen seconds of me punching the gloves and his face was showing signs of distress.
“Are you sure you’re ok”, I asked, “if it’s hurting I can stop”.
“No, carry on”, he said, through gritted teeth.
A couple more seconds later.
“How long do you normally do this for”, he winced.
“Two minutes”, I said.
The pain on his face said it all….
“I can stop after one minute if you like”, I said.
“Yes pleased”, he pleaded.
“Ten seconds to go”, said John, who was watching the clock.
I always save the best till last so was really hitting the gloves hard.
“Stop”, said John.
“I can’t move my shoulders”, cried the bodybuilder, “my muscles have seized up”.
John had to help take off his gloves as he was in so much pain.
“For being such a small person you really have got some power in those arms of yours”, he said.
It just goes to show that whilst he may have huge muscles and can lift really heavy weights, I can out punch him any day !!!!
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