This is really for all the overthinkers. If you’re one of those people who can flashback to a teenage party incident and forward to a road accident that hasn’t happened yet, within minutes, then please buy yourself a punchbag.
I bought my Body Power free-standing striketube for around £250 during lockdown. The pandemic had dismantled all my usual routines and left me with an abundance of thinking time. I was in a hugely privileged position, surrounded by my family in a spacious home with a garden, but free time is not good for thinkaholics.
I’m a lifetime exercise enthusiast and vigorous hard workouts are my go-to, but I was finding that my runs and my dumbbells still allowed my head to wander down some dark alleyways and rock-strewn paths. Nothing was sufficiently absorbing.
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I had previously spent two nights a week at a kickboxing club. I had worked my way up through the belt system but never shown much aptitude; there was no question of entering competitions. I’d started late in life and was held back by a reluctance to be punched in the face.
