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Hasif Ahmed, 52 Main St, Manchester, CT (2026)

10/18/2022

Wow. Just…wow. I know getting beat up doesn’t seem like the most enjoyable pastime, but damn. On days like this it really is worth it!

To be able to step in the ring with, and learn from, one of the greatest boxers in the world . Man I’d get beat up ANY DAY of the week, easy.

And to have people out there, role models, that don’t let greatness change them once they achieve greatness. That they still retain their humility, kindness, and dedication to their craft. That means everything. Gives us hope that good people still have a chance at changing the world.

Best of luck with your fight Katie! Thank you for taking the time to make me a better boxer today!

08/05/2022

My first (and last) time in Ted’s, just so I could drink a water shot with Dr. Kinsellaw-Shaw. This man may very well be the most intelligent person I’ve ever met (not to mention a former boxer!) and he was also kind enough to continue the tradition of taking the entire PT anatomy class out to drink. Now that that’s over with, it’s TIME TO TRAIN!!!

07/01/2022

SHOULDER TAG

A fun game that is also a HELL of a workout! Extremely beneficial for combat sports due to its similarity to mimicking sparring (without the damage), but it also incorporates a ton of sport-specific skills including:

💨Reaction time
💨Gauging distance
💨Reading + countering an opponent

Added bonus, if you get tagged, drop into a sprawl/push-up as punishment! Thanks for playing .m_

LETS GET TO WORK
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01/02/2022

We are told that upon performing the act of Umrah for a family member that has passed away, an angel delivers the message to them in Heaven.

If it wasn’t for my aunt, I wouldn’t have my health. I wouldn’t have training. I wouldn’t have boxing, or lifting, or jump roping. I wouldn’t be able to do what I love for my education, my job, or my favorite hobby. I wouldn’t have the tool that has given me all of my strength, my confidence, my stress-relief, my hope. I would have nothing, and Id have stayed in such a dark place that I don’t know if I would have wanted to make it to this point. But I’m here now, able to do all of the things that I share with you that make my life, MY LIFE.

I don’t know how one can return a favor that great; I don’t think you can. And without her here I can no longer show her all the things I’m able to do, all of the things I’m grateful for. But I hope, I hope, I hope, that by doing this for her she can at least feel a little piece of the gratitude I owe. That she could hear all of the things I said.

This wasn’t a typical trip to spend enjoying myself. This trip was spent praying, and crying, and asking God for all of the things I wanted my friends and family to have in this life and the next. I prayed for our health, for love, for strength, for success, for guidance in this life and reward in the hereafter. To heal our hearts from the pain and sadness of loss, and find the courage and Iight to continue living a life as the best people we can be.

I prayed for all of you, and I hope Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala heard my requests, heard my cries, and accepts my prayers.

I hope each and everyone of us has a blessed year, one that can replace the pain of the last. Stay safe, work hard, and in a time that has been filled with suffering, let’s do our best to spread love.
❤️

12/04/2021

Landmine Rotations

If you couldn’t tell, I love the landmine. And these rotations are probably my favorite core exercise that utilizes them.

Rotational core strength and power is a necessity for just about any athlete. Fighters of course, but any type of throwing, swinging, pulling on one side of the body will require increased demand of your obliques and transverse abdominis to stabilize your trunk.

If you aren’t an athlete, you’ve probably picked things up before, often times with one hand, right? Maybe a heavy suitcase, or trying to pull open a heavy door. Well there you go, you’ve needed core stability as well.

The most important direction with this exercise is to explode the weight up from your legs, NOT curling it up with your arms. Just like swinging a bat, you want to rotate up from your feet, to your hips to create power, and then have it travel with fluidity through your arms.

Get the movement down first, then as you develop your control add in explosiveness to increase POWER.

LETS GET TO WORK

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12/04/2021

Landmine Rotations

If you couldn’t tell, I love the landmine. And these rotations are probably my favorite core exercise that utilizes them.

Rotational core strength and power is a necessity for just about any athlete. Fighters of course, but any type of throwing, swinging, pulling on one side of the body will require increased demand of your obliques and transverse abdominis to stabilize your trunk.

If you aren’t an athlete, you’ve probably picked things up before, often times with one hand, right? Maybe a heavy suitcase, or trying to pull open a heavy door. Well there you go, you’ve needed core stability as well.

The most important direction with this exercise is to explode the weight up from your legs, NOT curling it up with your arms. Just like swinging a bat, you want to rotate up from your feet, to your hips to create power, and then have it travel with fluidity through your arms.

Get the movement down first, then as you develop your control add in explosiveness to increase POWER.

LETS GET TO WORK

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12/03/2021

LANDMINE TWIRLY THINGY

Moving, grooving, and having fun. I will never get tired of training, because my goal isn’t to reach a certain size, or look a certain way. It’s to keep learning new ways to move! And I can train every day till I die, and it still wouldn’t be enough to learn it all.

The best advice I can give to those of you struggling to stick to a workout plan, man forget the plan! First, learn to fall in LOVE with training. It could be in the gym, at the park, in a tree. I don’t care, just have fun expressing yourself. I promise, the rest will come.

Once you reconnect with what our beautiful bodies are capable of, you’ll be hungry for more. And that’s when everything else will have its place. But for now, HAVE FUN. And once you do, you’ll never want to let go again.

LETS GET TO WORK

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11/29/2021

WE JUST GETTING STARTED

I always say that the mental transformation precedes the physical transformation. Once your mind is right, your discipline is set, and your dedication is ABSOLUTE, everything else will follow.

That’s the main reason I don’t try to post too many pictures of myself, even though I guess I’m a “fitness person.” Because that’s not the goal. The goal is to feel great, to move well, and I GUARANTEE, your body will soon follow.

Every year I tell myself, “I’ve worked really hard these past few months. Next semester, I’m finally gonna take it easy.” And every year, every semester, I find myself trying to outdo the person I was just a few months earlier.

I got my personal training certification, and landed a job where I can do what I LOVE, with all my being.

I began assisting with research in UConn’s Kinesiology lab where I can geek out over performance testing, with other fellow exercise nerds.

I devoted any and all free time to my boxing training, and diet, so that despite everything else I was doing, I was as ready as I could be as a fighter, and got some great experience with 2 amateur bouts.

And you damn well better believe I don’t let my academics take a hit, even when I was.

Yea some parts sucked. There were times I was bored, hungry, couldn’t attend fun festivities, and did I say hungry? But now, I look back, and I am DAMN PROUD. And this is the moment I always know is coming. Sooner or later, your decisions will catch up to you, and at the moment you will feel one of two ways.

Filled with pride, accomplishment, and satisfaction in your self.

Or faced with the worst emotion of all, regret.

I don’t do regret. I’ve faced my share, and that is ENOUGH. So when people ask me how the hell I stay disciplined, or motivated, or whatever word you want to use as a reason for getting after it, it is because I will do WHATEVER it takes to tell regret to **** off.

11/27/2021

“Phew…Im really hungey,” was my immediate thought process.

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11/13/2021

VICTORY AT ARMY

Had our first official collegiate bout last night at Army. And damn, was it a good one. My opponent, and all the fighters I saw from Army, were a different breed of tough. No matter what we hit them with, they REFUSED to go down. So to win, we had to refuse to let up.

As soon as the bell rang and we had our first few exchanges, I knew what my strengths were. I was faster, sharper, and honestly felt like I could hit him whenever I wanted to. And for a little while, I did. So I poured it on him that first round, fast in-and-out movement, sharp combos, landing clean right hands and hooks thinking he’d go down. But damn, this guy just kept walking forward.

After that first round, I felt gassed. I knew I went too hard, and instead of pacing myself I did that exact opposite. But in my head I was telling myself that it didn’t matter. If I burned out all my energy, I’d have to find more. It was a matter of grit, and I worked too hard to let myself quit now.

After the fight, despite getting the win, I was a little disappointed for not getting the finish. I knew I was away, on someone else’s turf, and no matter how well I did, you never want to leave it in the judges hands if you can help it. And that feeling, of knowing you won a fight but waiting for a decision that could be skewed by bias, is one I really don’t want to feel again if I can help it.

More importantly, even more importantly than getting a win, was being able to push myself that far. I would much, much rather have a difficult test to show myself how much room I have to improve. And now that I’ve felt how much work needs to be done, you damn well better believe we’re gonna make ourselves even better.

This is only the beginning, and harder battles await. We just have to do everything in our power to be ready.

LETS WORK

08/19/2021

405lb HIP THRUSTS

There is something very satisfying about tossing 405lbs on your lappy and just letting the hips go to work…

But in all seriousness, I do miss the heavy lifting/explosive power style workouts from my last strength phase earlier this year. I’ve been having a big mobility focus for the past few months, and my body feels a lot stronger in the small areas like joint stability, calf/tibialis strength, scapular strength etc.

It’s definitely not as exciting as lifting hundreds of pounds or throwing stuff at a wall, but for the long term benefit to our health, it’s definitely worth the effort.

I haven’t completely decided what my next steps are going to be with my boxing training, whether I want to add in a quick strength block to get me big and strong, or focus solely on maintaining strength and going insane with cardio. First thing I’m gonna focus on is the mini cut to 132lbs. It’ll probably take me a month or so to do it slowly and relaxed, then once I’m at that weight I’ll decide the next move.

LETS GET TO WORK

LETS GET TO WORK

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08/12/2021

SHOULDER MOBILITY + POSTERIOR CHAIN STRENGTHENING

Here we have what’s pretty much the Superman exercise, combined with the Shoulder Dislocates stretch.

This move is great for a few reasons. It combines the posterior chain activation of the Superman (already a great exercise that most people aren’t doing) firing up everything from your glutes, to your low back, up your traps and rhomboids, all the way up to your neck.

With the addition of the shoulder dislocates, you’re now adding external shoulder rotation, with your posterior chain already active. When this exercise is often performed as a warm up stretch standing, it’s easy to focus on the shoulders and forget about all of the other tiny muscles in your back. This combination is a great way to open everything up and activate them simultaneously.

You might not have the ability to rotate your shoulders all the way to your back, and that’s ok. The wider you hold the stick/pole the easier it is on your shoulders. You can even use a band/towel for something with a little more flexibility. If you feel like your shoulders can handle more, then slowly work on narrowing your grip, and rotating so the bar reaches even further back.

When I’m done, I ike to stretch out and get loose-goosey. But that’s nothing special, I’m always squirming in between sets.

LETS GET TO WORK

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