you're a boxer retiring from boxing or coming to the end of your career it can be a very
tough thing to deal with i know this first hand i retired from boxing in 2012 when my hands were
really damaged i was undefeated professional at the time and after winning an olympic bronze medal
i was high hopes of me doing very well in the professional game but that got cut short and i
went into a dark place so i know how hard it can be to retire from boxing and on this video i'm
going to give you some solid advice that i wish someone gave me and thought about the success that
i've had since retiring from boxing and how right now my life is better than it was than when i was
boxing and i would never have thought i would have said that because when boxing got took away from
me having done it since the age of 10 years old all the way through at 27 with 106 fights in my
career it was a very hard thing to do but now like i said life is better than ever and hopefully i
give you some ideas after watching this video on how to help you with your life become even better
than it was when you were winning them fights for all them years my name is tony jeffries olympic
medalist boxer former undefeated professional like i mentioned i won seven national titles a european
gold medal now i co-own two boxing fitness gyms in los angeles california called box and burn as
well as a boxing fitness education program where i educate fitness professionals from around the
world how to build a career in teaching boxing for fitness my first piece of advice is try and stay
in the public eye as much as you can and what i'm about to tell you later on this video will make
sense why you should do this if you're getting any press any publicity along your boxing journey try
and get more of that reach out with journalists do stories with them write blogs anything you can do
to get in the public eye will really really help you with the advice that i'm going to give you on
this video so that is the first bit right there is stay in the public eye still relevant as well and
you don't need the press to do this you can do it on social media how is your social media presence
are you posting on instagram on facebook on maybe youtube on different platforms on twitter twitter
is huge for boxers yeah get amongst conversations in there on twitter on the different platforms
post more content on there about yourself about your journey and that's going to help build your
brand which will help with what i'm about to tell you and now the next thing i want to mention is
don't please don't get into a job that you don't like don't get into a dead end job i've seen this
time and time again and i'm sure you have and you might not have thought about it until i'm
about to tell you this is when you've seen a boxer who former professional even former amateur boxer
who's done that all in life and they get into a job that they don't like and now what you're
going to start doing just start drinking a few on a weekend it starts being every night start
getting depressed and they start feeling down and living a bad life please don't go down that rabbit
hole of doing that so depression is a big thing in boxing mental health is a big thing in boxing
so what are you doing through the day to occupy your mind if you're working in a job
like you don't like on a building site in a call center something that you're
not enjoying and you're doing it just to get money because you need money right now you know
that's not a good thing it's going to end up being bad for you now i understand we need money so you
need to get money from somewhere so if that's what you've got to do for the time being while
you're working on your long-term goal then do that but please don't end up in a dead-end job
because it's going to really hurt your mind in the long term so what can you be doing what will
make you feel good because i remember after boxing was like well i don't know what i want to do now
i thought i've boxed for all my life what i want to do how am i going to live and what what do i
enjoy doing and it was like a horrible place where i was at mentally so what you can do you have got
an advantage over 99.9 of fitness professionals out there because you know boxing and luckily
for you is boxing is the biggest trend in fitness around the whole world right now and now you know
boxing you know boxing better than like i said 99 of people so why not teach boxing for fitness
and get a career in doing that that's what i've done in my life like i said it's the best
it has ever been right now because i've done that now having success in teaching boxing for fitness
is not simple it's not as straightforward as you might think just because you know how to box
just because you know how to fight and you've had lots of fights in your career doesn't mean you're
going to have success at teaching someone boxing for fitness in fact the opposite i've seen lots of
former boxers come into the fitness industry and try to teach boxing and and they fell miserably
and they don't know why and i know why and it is because of the way they're trying to teach a lot
of boxers try to teach people boxing for fitness the way their coach taught them now if i teach a
middle-aged lady how to box the same way as tommy brooks or terry edwards or bobby rimmer taught me
guess what they're not going to come back for the second session i'm not going to have any success
in that so teaching boxing for fitness is one thing now or other big thing to this is building
your brand and getting your name out there like i mentioned earlier on if you start building your
brand when you're coming to the end of your career even if you finish your career getting any press
coverage that you can get that's great you want to keep getting that you want to try and stay in the
public eye because that will follow you through to your fitness career if you get into fitness
so if you're thinking no nah i'm not posting on social media that's stuffed oh i'm not trying
to build my brand i'm keeping up the public i am not going to get in touch with the press you know
if you're thinking like that that's why you've got to change your mindset change your mindset
completely because that sort of mindset is what's going to keep you in a dead-end job
you need to open your mind you need to invest in yourself invest in your brain this is the
biggest thing that you're going to invest in is your brain in your knowledge do fitness
courses think about different ways you can invest you can read books you can go to seminars you can
watch online webinars you can connect with people who's had success in the industry that you want to
be in you can connect with me it's my passion to help all my boxers have a career outside of boxing
like i said i've seen so many boxers go down that rabbit hole and end up with depression and after
boxing all your life i know how hard that is so invest in yourself reach out to me reach out to
glenn holmes who's a boxing fitness expert his instagram account is here check him out send him a
dm he will give you all the information about the course that we co-own together where be helping
fitness professionals teach boxing for a living in former boxers teach boxing for a living
we can help you as well if you've got any questions about this please leave in the
comments below i really want to help you as much as i can please don't go into a dead-end job
enjoy your life you work hard all your life in boxing i know how hard boxing is i really do
make the rest of your life the best of your life little cheesy quote the rest of you like the best
of your life i did it and i'm sure you can do it too it's all about your mindset and opening your
mind spreading your horizons and i'm telling you you will have a great life thank you for watching