You may not be in the ring, but you're in the gym.

As soon as you walk through the door of your gym and into the training room, the music will be turned up to high, and you will see and hear a different world.

You'll go to the nutrition store and buy a lot of protein shakes, and you'll go to the grocery store and buy more of the same. You'll also buy a lot of fat-burning foods that will leave you feeling tired, but good. There's all sorts of training tools, from heavy bags to medicine balls to jump ropes, and you'll see how this helps you become a better fighter. You'll watch how the coach, or teammate, will help you become a better fighter. These are the people who will help you get out of your comfort zone. Doing shadow boxing in front of the mirror is one way to test your own comfort zone—and it will make you feel more effective. You can do this at gyms and fight gyms (where you're surrounded by people of different colors and ages), at home, or in the park.

🛒 🔧 🌊

When to Use Shadow Boxing: How Many Times a Day? You need to do shadow boxing in the weeks after you do any of the exercises in this book for a few reasons. You need to find out if the exercises actually work. For example, if you do three sets of five push-ups with a weight of 50 pounds and then do a workout that calls for five sets of 10 push-ups, do you need to do the push-ups six days a week or five days a week? The answer to this question will give you the confidence to continue to train. The workout will give you the confidence you need will need in the ring.