Lee Waters Personal Fitness

Busy day for some of the regulars yesterday. Tom and Laura were fighting at the NWCKB fight show. They both won a hard fought 3 round match, which took them every ounce of fitness to get through. But they have lots of ounces of fitness. Other fighters who attend the NWCKB sparring classes and squad sessions brought it all to the ring. The crowd were not disappointed. And we had another regular and world champion, Imbraline running in the Swansea half marathon coming in at under 2 hours. it’s non stop for this lot!

What we get and how we get there. The do enjoy it really!

We have Dominic here at the Wilmslow half marathon smashing 2 minutes off his best time! He is in training for the Manchester marathon and thought he’d just take in a quick half marathon to see where he’s up to. He’s in with us doing strength, conditioning and his favourite press ups and he has a graded running program which is working really well. Well done Dominic!

Last weekend our regulars Laura and Tom were fighting in another British championships. They both competed in multiple categories and won medals in them! It was a two day event, a hard slog but they both know what’s required and they both put the work in. The peak of the training is the six two minute fitness rounds with 30 second break between each round. And of course we have the stamina training and the sparring and the pad technical rounds. We have to say a big thank you to Cath Morrisey for helping with some of the training, we owe her a (non alcoholic, low sugar) drink and thanks to Chris and the NWCKB squad for pushing all the fighters to where they need to be. They are back in training next week for the English nationals so I’m looking forward to doing it all again!

Monica on her first session of the year but it’s not her first session of the week. There is no rest for the commuted!

First session of 2025 and it’s Jess of course! We could have trained in the gym but she insisted on going outside!

Update: Last week in Portugal Tom, who you have seen on this page grabbed a bronze and a silver medal at the WKKC world championships! It’s all hard work and weeks of preparation, you can’t just turn up and give it a go, Also we have to mention Catherine Morrisey who has taken part in the fight camps, she only got a gold medal! And one more, our instructor Chris Boughey was awarded an 8th degree black belt. A whole load of our other NWCKB fighters got medals and world titles, all found on the NWCKB page.

Tom in training for the world championships. He likes to document the training with photos and videos, I only managed to capture this. This is after a few padwork fitness rounds. They involve punching, running, jumping, kicking and boxing combinations. You might not know by this picture but everybody loves the pad rounds!

Here we have Imbraline, Ben and Liam with their NWCKB black belt certificates. They all put in extra training with us and here is the result. In case you don’t know the grading is FOUR HOURS of fitness, footwork, punching, kicking, more punching, even more kicking and then some intense rounds of sparring. It took them a whole year of dedicated black belt training to get there (and at least 3 years of gradings before that). It says a lot about them and what they are prepared to do. There are others who train here that got there and we will post a picture when we obtain one. Well done to everyone who took part in the grading on Saturday, you made all your instructors proud!

Most of you know who this is. It’s world champion kick-boxer Laura having just finished the London to Brighton bike ride yesterday. 55 mikes in under 4 hours! She raised lots of money on the way and hit loads of personal targets. A big congratulations from me and all the regular participants in our fitness community! By the way she is back in training at the NWCKB gym tonight!

Dominic completing the Bolton Ironman. Over a mile swim, 56 miles on the bike and a half marathon! And look at the posture, right at the end, still upright. That would be enough for a few weeks for most people but he’s back in training with us this week. We’ll have to find him some new challenges in the gym!