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SO....YOU'VE DECIDED TO ENTER A BODYBUILDING COMPETITION
by SCOTT GOBLE You’ve been training for a few years and, if you’re honest with yourself, you’ve had the idea bouncing around in the back of your head for a while now… you just didn’t think you were ‘ready’. Now the time has come - you’ve picked a date and mentally committed. The moment is coming for you to get onstage for the very... -
BOXING CANADA ANNOUNCES STING AS OFFICIAL SPONSOR
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STING Canada as the new Official Equipment Supplier for Boxing Canada Montreal – April 3rd, 2017. At the dawn of the new Olympic cycle, Boxing Canada is proud to announce STING Canada as its new official equipment supplier for the next quadrennial. This new partnership includes personalized uniform for the national team as well as boxing equipment that will... -
NICO HERNANDEZ
Image: AIBA, Rio 2016 Olympics by Missy Fitzwater They say that “you can never go home.” Nico Hernandez knows that this is not true. He has found his way back home on numerous occasions. He has boxed in competitions across the nation, collecting an impressive array of hardware, including: a National Golden Gloves championship ring, eight Ringside World Championship belts, two Jr. Olympic... -
NORMAL THINGS IN AN ABNORMAL SPORT
by SCOTT GOBLE I have a lot of clients preparing for shows this year. In many cases it is their first show, it has come to my attention that my role as a contest prep coach is as much about training and nutrition as it is reassuring them that what they are going through is completely normal, even though it may seem totally abnormal.... -
SHE FIGHTS FOUNDATION
IMAGE - AIBA, RIO 2016 OLYMPICS by Missy Fitzwater It is not a secret that boxing is a powerful sport. But, where does all of that power come from. Is it in the jab, or the technique? Is it in the hours of training? Or does it lie somewhere within the athlete themselves? Cristina Gonzalez of the She Fights Foundation believes the latter to... -
PREGNANCY, TRAINING & MOTHERHOOD
by RINNAH SCHMID - IFBB PRO I was fortunate enough to be able to train through my entire pregnancy, still as many sessions per week about 5, cardio most mornings and kept my strength up almost the whole way through. I worked as a PT until about 3 weeks before my due date and continued to run my prep and posing clients yet the... -
BOXING'S 'DARK SIDE'
By Missy Fitzwater “I personally plan on being able to use my brain in the future...Why on earth would anyone choose to voluntarily get hit in the head and face?....You’re a sweet girl from the country, why do you want to hang out with thugs and gang members who have nothing better to do with their lives than get into fights?.....Anyone who would get... -
SURPRISE - PAL IRVING GYM GETS STING MAKEOVER
USA BOXING NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: June 28, 2016 U.S. Olympians Errol Spence and Shakur Stevenson to Surprise Irving PAL Boxers at Gym Makeover Reveal (DALLAS, TEXAS) – The young athletes at the Irving PAL Boxing Gym will enjoy more than just one surprise when they walk in to their gym on Wednesday. The boxers will be greeted with not only a gym full... -
STING SIZING CHART
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OLYMPIANS... SUPERHUMAN OR JUST SUPER-HUMANS?
(Cam Awesome - USA Boxer and Rio Athlete) By Missy Fitzwater There are certain events in everyone’s lifetime that always elicit a visceral response. One of these, for me, has always been the Olympics. As a little girl, I remember the excitement and anticipation I felt in an Olympic year; from the journey of the torch travelling great distances to reach its final destination in the...