Hello everyone,
Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe xx
A couple weeks ago I started doing boxing 2 a week and the first couple sessions everything was fine but now I am starting to feel fatigue in my legs. Has anyone else been doing a boxing workout? Has it affected you MS?
Thank you all in advance xx
My daily workout is getting out of bed. Boxing and MS don’t belong in the same sentence anyway.
Boxing & MS, many years ago I used to box super middleweight, MS soon put a stop t that. When I had an MRI scan
and found a dozen lesions on my brain I thought time to stop getting my head punched around. I was in my thirties so it was time to stop… Now I`m SPMS and in a wheelchair must of the time excerise is very limited.
If I could still box I would be a super heayweight now lol.
I’m like Scudger, getting out of bed and getting dressed for the day is my limit…glad you can mange it of a fashion, just be mindful of what it does to you though and plan it properly.
Jean x
Boxers have to keep very fit, so I``m not surepirsed it made you feel whacked!
Boudsx
Go for it , do everything you want to do while you can , Your legs could hurt cause your training , I used to blame every ailment on MS. I get bit of optic neuritis when I hit the gym sometimes, mostly when I’ve been a slob for a while, don’t be defined by this fight back that what I do and yeah sometimes it’s hard but when your in hospital and can’t get up you’d pray to be training again with tired legs trust me
I guess its a case of do EVERYTHING while you can.
The 15 mins on an exercise bike I do is a massive achievement .
I used to love my contact sports in my better days, but I would of thought though, getting beaten around the head is the last thing you need with MS.
nothing wrong with exercise but not sure about boxing and m.s. - definitely try to avoid punches to the head and punches anywhere else wont do you much good.
Knocks on the head probably won’t be a great option for a brain with tattered wiring. But then, as boxers say, there are plenty of critics of the sport who eat, drink and smoke themselves into an early grave, while no one bats an eyelid. Healthy exercise is usually good, and the healthiest is the one you’ll do because you enjoy it. I hope your MS does not too much get in your way on this one.
Alison
I do Taekwon-do, and there are times when my legs (and pretty much everything else) says No.
The TKD does not affect my MS, but the MS does affect my TKD, there are moves I cannot do because I can no longer jump, MS makes me get tired faster than others so I have to have regular rest breaks during training. Heat intolerance is also an issue, so I have iced water to drink and an icepack on standby during warmer weather. Sparring is an absolute killer, and my instructor(s) regularly have to haul me out for my own good 
before I fall down/over.
Hi there Alejandra6,
I started boxing and weight training back at the beginning of 2020, within 3 months I no longer needed my walking stick, It was hard to find ways to keep doing it during lockdown, but I got through it, I feel that the boxing is brilliant for resilience in standing and balance, I only do pad and bag work I don’t spar, after I have done my workout I need to sit for about an hour before my legs recover, I don’t make it easy for myself though, I wear a weighted vest and don’t rest in between rounds, but by doing this I feel I build up a resilience for standing, I workout 5 days a week and my legs are allot more tired during this time, but Saturday and Sunday they feel good, so feeling fatigue in your legs I would say is normal as your working the muscles more often, but I’d definitely stick with it as it will not do you any harm, it’s now 2023 and I’m still not using the stick, without the gym I’m not sure what my MS would be like.
Depends very much what flavour of MS you have and how advanced. Some of us with RRMS are normal between relapses. Others with Progressive MS don’t have on/off phases and are trying to manage a steady decline at varying rates.
I’m PPMS, diagnosed in 2021 though probably had it 10 years having been misdiagnosed before. Won a tennis club tournament in 2012 for the last time, got a blue/red belt in Tae Kwon Do by 2014 and was forced to stop doing boot camps / circuit training 3 times a week in late 2016. Now I can barely walk 50m with a stick, stand for 3-4 mins tops, suffer badly with fatigue and have an electric chair for longer trips. What exercise I can manage (swimming, basically) is “paid for” with awful stiffness and spasms for a couple of days afterwards and the expectation of lying down and sleeping for an hour or two after I get back from the pool due to fatigue / exhaustion. So a price to pay but it keeps a little bit of flexibility and coordination in my fast-deadening legs.
So do what you can but be aware of your limits!
Graeme