Wednesday boxing class: after skipping rope and shadowboxing, everyone lined up with one foot in a plastic ring and took turns throwing close-range combinations that were called out by the coach. After 3 minutes, trainees on one side moved left and trainees on the other side moved right so everyone would get a chance to throw hands together, although we ran out of time to make it completely down the line. One of the combos was a left hook followed by a right hook with the defender ducking both. Through my peripheral vision I was the only one nearby able to keep squatting under the hooks for the full 3 minutes. 

Next, we grabbed dumbbells and a medicine ball and did various workouts with those, my favorite being throwing the ball one-handed at the wall to train power jabs and straight rights.

I couldn't help but see the humor in the skinny coach instructing me to do lateral raises as veins were practically popping out of my ears but I say that in good nature; it was a big class and lots of people were out of shape. Excellent technical first half for me, at least. And some of the medicine ball exercises got a little challenging.