Hey guys it's Morgan Yates I recently challenged myself to do 30 days of boxing classes and here is what happened
Thank you to fabletics for sponsoring. Today's video. Welcome to today's video. So back in July
Yes
July I sent out to do 30 days of boxing classes as a
Physical challenge as a mental challenge at the time when I started this
I was feeling just a little bit dissatisfied with like the lack of discipline in my life
I guess I feel like when you work for yourself
Especially but something is flexible with social media. It's easy to do pretty much everything on your own terms
You don't really have to do anything. You don't want to do you don't report to anyone?
so as someone who's not a really like routine person a lot of what I do is just fully
Dictated by what?
I'm in the mood to do and what I feel like doing at a given time and then thinking about this I realized that pretty
Much my whole life that mentality is sort of carried itself over into my exercise habits as well
I bought through periods of being like super hardcore about working out and whatever and they're usually pretty brief and then when that wave of
Motivation leaves I leave the gym right with it, you know
So I wanted to do this 30 days of boxing challenge to push myself to actually stick to something for once even at times
I'm not necessarily in the mood to be working out and just to sort of
Develop some discipline in my life as well as to get stronger along the way
You've never taken a boxing class
I'm sure they bury but I go to rumble boxing in West Hollywood where each class is broken up into ten at three-minute
rounds your time in the class is also split between two sides of the room the back side and the floor side you start with
A three minute warm-up where you go over the punches and then you spend three rounds on the bag where you cycle through different punch
Combos sometimes focusing on power and other times aiming for speed there are six punches
You need to know each one with a corresponding
Number one through six punch one is your jab, which is basically just a straight shot with your non-dominant hand punch
two is your cross which is the same thing on your other hand except that this one involves rotating your back leg punches three and
four Tiger hooks
so while keeping your elbows up and bent you drive these punches into the sides of the bag while rotating your hips to get the
most power punches 5 and 6 are your uppercuts where you get up underneath the bag and basically return you're hitting your opponent under the
Chin, and those are the six punches
So after three rounds on the bag you switch to the floor side for three rounds of interval training using weights
The class really becomes a full body workout here with lots of legs being incorporated and even more arms all while keeping your heart rate
Up once around six is complete. You're done with the weights
You go back to the bags for two rounds
And then finally you wrap things up with the last two rounds on the floor
Where round nine usually focuses on ABS and then round ten the rung around is a cardio burnout
It is straight up not easy. Okay, but it is really fun as my favorite workout
It's actually the only workout I've ever like loved enough to think about going for a week much less do it thirty days
So let's jump into day one at which speaking of discipline. I didn't even wanna go on day one
I'm about to head off to day one expected to be starting this off on a bit of a different note
I took a red-eye back from Hawaii Australia where I've spent the past eight days and energy. Let's go
Three recruit a sailor again just finished my day three workout wearing all fabletics as always
Great mood, I hate the week off on such a great note. I had so much energy
Like I was a power ring through that workout
I thought now it also I need to like set a few goals that I haven't established yet for these 30 days things I want
To be better at by the end of this one including at the very end of the workout the final two rounds on the floor
Side, you take these weights off the front of your bench that are either 1 pound 2 Braylon or 3 pounds
that doesn't sound like much but when half the workout is punching a back and then like
Three rounds or using dumbbell weights then your last two rounds these little hand weights
One two or three pounds is like it so I used to do two pounds lately
I don't know why I've been using the one through
So my goal by the end of this would be I want that last workout on to be using the 3 pounds, baby
Flutter kicks would love to be better about those jump lunges morning
It looks I never do those - jump lunges. I do a step reverse lunge because I don't want to die
I'd love to increase my dumbbell weight from seven and a half pounds two of the 10-pound ones. I think that about covers it
It is fully gay right now, let me tell you I thought I would ride out this wave of excitement longer than five days
But I'm just tired, you know Simon I'm dying. It's just that I'm straight up just feeling lazy. I want to lay on the couch
Okay, it's seven I think
Like a hundred and ten percent ever see work a class and like and fine till the end
I can do more than I could a week ago, which is crazy. I slept
Incredible last night everything feels better. Rinoa will take from fabletics. It's after powering through only a few days
I'm not always being in the mood to be there
I can already tell that I was getting a lot stronger and it was only at the end of week one
So despite this progress though. I coulda found myself being tired again and not always being in the mood to be there
So had it not been for this challenge. I for sure when I've been there any of these days because Morgan was not feeling it
Today I'm wearing leggings from fabletics pure. Luxe collection
They're supposed to be for like studio workouts or yoga
But I really like having a lot of flexibility some Rainey's say excited to try these out for the first time
So also I'm also wearing it's like a built-in bra tank a sports bra is built-in. So we're today they ate let's go
Sure just not mood to go tonight
Daten I'm in such a bad mood today
What I was learning already was that every time I finished a class whether I went in there in a good mood or a bad
Mood. It didn't matter if I'd been looking forward to boxing all day or if I had to drag myself there
I left every single time just like in the best mood feeling so much happier
so it actually become really easy to just train myself to get up and go even if I wasn't in the mood to
Because I knew the feeling that was gonna follow it. I was getting into a serious groove with that
I'd been to 11 classes in under two weeks, but then I had the terrible
Opportunity to go to France and Italy getting paid to travel insane. It was an eight-day trip
I
Obviously went on it you may have seen the video from that already and I had a really wonderful time and it had a lot
Of friends, which was awesome excited. No anyone going into it
So we had that little eight-day detour the first of our detours
But I came back really excited to jump back into this challenge actually immediately following a 20 hour travel day
I went straight to a workout. I don't know. I was like a high on life
I had so much energy that I just wanted to like get out
I can also tell I'm getting stronger throughout all these 30 days. I've been living in my fabletics activewear
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Which is always clutch, but I pretty much live in the Miele sets
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we were back to it day 13 where I
Walked outside to find that someone had hit my car and didn't leave a note. So that was awesome
And then on day 14, I had been awake since 2:00 a.m
Because our power when Alan I was overheating in the middle of the night. Was it a bad mood on that day?
Also, I was being tested those days currently in the car to stop light. I'm like yelling at cars. I don't know
That's not what I normally do when I'm driving. That's the beauty of boxing you can be like
Celebrating on the bags you can be beating somebody up that day on my terrible mood. I
Feel better about searching out out today. Khlo fabletics set a high impact sports bra that is currently it's damp my fav
shirt any high waisted pocket Capri legging
You work out on what should be day 30 and is day 30 chronologically speaking, but it's work out 15
And all of us, however, I continue to leave those workouts in a better mood regardless of the circumstances surrounding my day
It becomes something that I was starting to look forward to daily as well something that was clearly doing great things for my mental health
class 16 or 17 and
I
Went on another trip for three weeks
Hello, I've been away for two and a half weeks this is gonna be very interesting
why does this video turn into I have no idea don't always go how we thought they would I thought this is gonna be a
30 day thing then I was like, oh we'll do it every other day. Maybe this will go for a little longer
I'm not traveling for a while
So I thought I just got back from Croatia in London and Bosnia and I am not worked out in two and a half weeks
This past trip. The only thing working out was my liver and that life goes on. I had a wonderful time
Those may be my favorite trip I've ever had decided to get back into working out
Just a little anecdote that I thought I'd share that
Doesn't see it being included in this video
but I haven't been looking forward to getting back into working out necessarily just because I know it's gonna be
More difficult than it was when I left but what I love about boxing and what really keeps me going back is for me
It's so much more mental than it is physical when I'm at boxing
it's very little me like thinking about like, I mean it is thinking about like the moves and whatever every workout class is
primarily me just like
moving like taking out aggression about something I'm mad about or frustrated about or like if I'm feeling anxious like it's a great way to
like get out those feelings or
more often than not I'm moving and being active and like taking out energy because I'm so happy or excited or
Just like having a great day
I think boxing is honestly just a great way to celebrate life as weird as that sounds like that's just
kind of where my
Mind goes like when I'm in there boxing and like the music's playing and I'm having a great time and I'm just like always sitting
Here thinking like preto when I was like when I'm boxing
I'm so I was like wow life's so good a lot of reflection happens for me for the past couple of days we came back
In town when I have it gone back to box saying something like oh, it's gonna be hard. I kind of accepted
I was just gonna have to like fight through that mindset I go to the class be a little sluggish maybe and just like not
Fully enjoy it. But today I woke up and I saw that it is worldwide suicide prevention day
I've touched on this here and there but for those who don't know back about four years ago
my sophomore year of college was just a dark time to be Morgan and
was very depressed for a long period of time just didn't want to be
Alive was consumed with so much just like fear and hopelessness
And thought literally believed but like my future this is the bumpiest road we make this conversation
Generally believed that there was just nothing positive to be found in my future and I was in Croatia
I just like watching a sunset. I was like if you'd have told me that this would be my life four years ago
It's just insane to think about like how much has changed how much has happened how far things have come and how much better things?
Have gotten and how I will genuinely believe that that would never be possible
But I'm just doing all that reflecting has me very excited for today's class because it's going to be a celebration
It's a celebration of life. It's a celebration of where my life is currently and just the things that I get to do
so many things I love so many people I love and just living a life that I
Didn't think was possible. So that's kind of where my headspace is at today. I think it's a great note to get back into
Boxing because we're only like halfway done and I left again. I ran pretend that I didn't
Stay won back at it overall. It's day at 19. I really can't believe that this is such a long process at this point
I was actually two full months into the challenge, but I'd actually been out of town for thirty of those 60 days
Sometimes I really asked myself why I pay right here and I was honestly also just feeling like straight-up
Embarrassed about how many people I had told that I was doing this challenge and how long it had taken obviously is easy to point
To my traveling for being like the reason in the excuse behind like me taking so long
But like I was still in town for 30 days, and I could have finished it
So this point I realized that I hadn't actually been making this the challenge that I set out to make it
For example, I would only go to instructors whose classes. I had already been to cuz that was in my comfort zone
Which is also hilarious cuz it's literally the same workout like doesn't vary that much
but if there was a day where one
My like instructors wasn't teaching
I like wouldn't go rather than just go to a new person or another example
I would only go to class times that were super convenient for me
So let's say if I had a really busy day and I was running all over the place
Rather than like wake up an hour and a half earlier and like go to a morning class earlier than I would like to be
Awake I would instead just not go at all that day
So there were just a lot of ways I could have made this more challenging and I was taking like the easy way out
That that makes sense
So on October 1st class day 19 so far into this challenge
I decided that it was gonna be a real challenge and on that day kicking things off
I signed up for an instructor that I'd never taken before that might sound so small like I just like refused to do that the
Past I don't know why this point I'm super excited and finally we got on a roll day 19 baby feels so good
That was a great workout
We're heading to rumble here's I'm wearing it means like seamless leggings from fabletics
pretty day
Muscles are sorry
I guess what progress think throughout this is I have increased the weights I use so I've gone up to ten pound weights I can
Honestly, probably go up again by the end of this. I probably want to go get
You know, it was a good workout when there is this much boob sweat
Monday I believe 26 my shoulders are so sore. Amazing workout. Just finished day 27
It was a hard on something happened on day 27
I was filming a clip and a vlog like showing my outfit and I was like filming in the mirror showing like the back of
This like sports bra tank. I was watching the footage back later and like caught a glimpse of my back now
It's a little shook not because I'm like so fit and whatever cuz I'm not I kept replaying it being like that did not look
like that before so I started to go back through some other footage and I realized that there were some other small physical changes that
Had taken place a lot of which probably no one but like myself but notice including like I don't know in my face I can
Tell it ever
It's probably no one and while I know where I want to make this video about any kind of like weight loss or like physical
Whatever because that's not like what this is about is about getting stronger
It's about reaching those goals, which I reached all of also is about becoming more disciplined and being mentally stronger
But just in seeing that footage it was cool to see some tangible changes that had taken place
It's a bonus. I'll accept
These 828 those little crop top is from fabletics also wearing fabletics coal from that leggings bit out of box near in the end
Currently driving to my xxx class right now
I don't know
I've gone from like counting down how many classes I had left is like a
You can do this Morgan only this many more like whatever you've done this mini to now
It's like I guess 30 more days like I love it
This is something I like look for which I like don't want to go a day without
Going it is so weird. The shift has only happened in like the past week for me
This is like set the tone for the rest of my life just in terms of what it does for me mentally
So I'm so excited 30 is a finish day 30 such good class
It's just crazy
like how
recently is this used to be so hard for me that I would like feel like I was gonna throw up and die and now
It's like I feel like I could do a second class right now over the past 30 classes
I've gone up and like the weights I'm using I went up again today actually a lot can happen in 30 days
30 outfits sculpted leggings in a Mila sports bra like I just feel so much stronger. I don't know. I feel powerful sounds cheesy
She's so for some final stats
I took my 30th class eighty of five days
After I started if we feel generous and we want to subtract my travel and I did those three classes within
55 days of being in LA but with us still we're averaging
To just like slightly more than one class every other day
Once I decided to actually treat this like a challenge this month we started actually accomplishing things go figure
I did the final stretch with this by doing a 12 classes within 13 days
Actually was more than that in a row because I kept going after the 30 days. We're over it's weird now
It's like if I'm having a wonderful day, I want to like beat boxing and like celebrating or if I'm having a bad day
I want to like be there knowing that when I leave like I'll feel better unlike my very inconsistent class attendance
The one thing that was consistent was that every single class. I would leave it feeling happier feeling stronger feeling proud of myself
so if is with me 85 days to realize just how much better my life is with this and it then Soviet and
Dare, I say I think I am a little bit more discipline
Very well, so just
Anything everyone can benefit from trying to commit to something for 30 days whether it's a workout class
or maybe you want to read everyday or maybe you want to get eight hours of sleep if that's something you struggle with or just
Whatever that thing is that you want to do that you aren't doing go out and do it
If it goes anything for you, like this did for me you'll probably keep going even when the 30 days in