Boot Camp Day 6

Day 6 in the Big ProKick House

 It was the final day of Boot Camp with no major catastrophies except Desi is still on the missing list. Yesterday the 100 year old called into the gym (with letter from the Queen in hand) to inform ProKick's Billy Murray that the reason he hadn't been attending was due to celebrations - he had one too many. Shame on you Desi but congratulations on the big birthday. 

All joking aside Mr Mac is away on his holidays today with wife in tow.

 No shows were Ross Hamilton and Paul McClintock, both injured or sore.

 It was a handy day for the conclusion of boot camp - a few laps round the block, a bit of shadow boxing bag work and that's about it, or is that it?

Stay tuned to find out.

Final thoughts on the boot camp to come. 

Day 5 in the Big ProKick House 

The penultimate day of the boot camp and everybody was wondering who will show and who won't. This is an all bulletin alert for Rocky Desi who has been missing for the last 2 days. The 91 year old has got an excuse that he is off on holiday but that is no excuse.

Barrie Oliver was late yet again, the Killinchy Mauler ended up being chauffeured in to town by car to catch up with the team that were well on their way on a sight seeing mission of Belfast's City Centre sights with photographs of their tour.

Lazy toes Pawel Gorka and Ross Hamilton were no shows, Hamilton was hurt in sparring last night that's his excuse - Pawel may be dropped from the event.  

The boot camp featured running only, 6.6 miles to the City Hall, the holiday Inn and back up Albertbridge road to the gym.

The shocker of the day  was a guest appearance by veteran runner with over 65 marathons to his credit Mr Hopkins father of Chris Hopkins, and guess what it was a race back from the Holiday Inn and the 65 year old beat his 20 year old son back to the gym.

Mr Hopkins said he was very impressed with the overall fitness of all the boys.

The final bootcamp is tomorrow at 7am. 

Day 4 in the Big ProKick House

First up - Where is Rocky Desi? The 90 year old senior citizen is now on the missing list. He was not alone however, Ricky Beggs and Ed Rennick failed to show whilst young Luke Hosick and Adam Turnbull were late, much to their peril.

Another change of training as the ProKick team stepped up their running ten fold  followed by floor work, circuit training and fast explosive pad work. The morning was finished off with some feeling slightly dizzy as they experienced equilibrium training.

Asymmetrical equilibrium training minimizes the proprioceptive input, emphasizing the role of the biomechanical component in postural regulation.

Which in Laymans terms means to help deal with recovery from a knockout blow or any imbalance in the ring  - Prokick style equilibrium training.

ProKicker's look forward to more spinning classes tomorrow after their big run tomorrow to Belfast's city centre. All must be at the gym for 5.30am ready to go at 5.45am.

Day 3 in the Big Prokick House

ProKick's Desi Mac vanquished his demons as he arrived 1 hour early for the BBC 'Billy's Boot Camp'.

Such was the impact of the blog on prokick.com that today produced no drama and everyone was present and correct. Well two were late - Richard Beggs and Alastair McMichael.

Karl McBlain - who didn't turn up yesterday morning, arrived at the gym 6 hours late with his mum in tow. The teenager sported a new blue sling click here for more

That doesn't mean that there isn't much to write about today - The training stepped up a new gear and went outside the gym as some of the fighters saw parts of Belfast they'd never before and probably won't want to again as the ProKick team hammered the roads of east Belfast for a 3 mile run then back to the gym for sit-ups, floor work and more laps of the gym.

Let's hope the Boot Camp continues for the rest of the week with no drama, but fear not if there is anything to report it will be here on Prokick.com

Day 2 in the ProKick House

70 year old Rocky Desi was once quoted bad mouthing much loved film character Rocky Balboa. The elderly gent who daily takes part in Billy Murray’s boot camp said “That Rocky fella doesn’t know what real training is,” said the confident great grandfather.

“I’m out on the roads every morning at 6am with Billy Murray and the ProKick team and that’s before I go to work. When my work is done I go back to the gym and spar with fighters half my age and even younger.

"If Rocky Balboa thinks he is battling with mid-life crisis, he ain’t got nothing on me!”

However that wasn’t the case this morning as the mature student failed to turn up as he was still in bed counting sheep. He wasn’t the only one laying in his pit as Adam Turnbull and Karl McBlain were also no shows.

And British title contender Barrie Oliver dared to turn up late, albeit 4 minutes, but the early bird catches the worm and if Oliver wants to win he needs to be here ahead of the pack.

His excuse is that he has over 30 miles to drive from Ballywalter but what was heavyweight Pawel Gorka’s excuse as he too turned up late when he just lives around the corner?

It was Day 1. in the ProKick house

Over twenty turned up for the week-long 'boot camp' and what a miserable day it was - rain, rain and more of the same as the ProKickers took to the streets.

No drama this time, no-one late. Everyone trained hard and are feeling fit and ready for the rest of the week.

It's not easy getting out of bed at 5am to trudge the roads in rain hail or snow, (UK Summer weather is great). Luckily for these guys we have had no snow to date - yet!

All fighters on the August 16th bill must be at the gym on Tuesday morning for 5.45am to do their 3 laps and be ready to train at 6am.

Boot Camp is free, though if you miss your class after attending theboot camp there will be a £10 penalty incurred. This is additionaltraining and is not intended as a substitute for your normal classes.