Peter Roy
I have 14 years experience of boxing.
I started training with an amateur boxer in Oxford in 2009, to lose weight, initially. I lost 10kg over 6 months, but I also found that I preferred the intensity of boxing compared to the non-contact martial arts I had practised in my 20s, and I noticed how much better I felt, physically and mentally, during and after training.
I have struggled with anxiety and depression throughout my adult life, so the combination of boxing and mental health awareness that Mental Mate promotes felt like a natural fit when I started coming to the Sunday sessions after lockdown in 2021.
The majority of people who come to Mental Mate have never done any boxing before, so I decided to qualify with the Hatton Boxing Academy as a boxing for fitness coach in 2023 so that I could start to do more structured pad work in the adult classes, and also start up a family session for parents and carers to do boxing for fitness workouts together with their children.
I really enjoy teaching beginners the fundamentals of boxing, and I promote safe, simple, and fun training techniques and conditioning routines.
In addition to boxing, I also enjoy other sports, such as jump rope (skipping), flow rope, gymnastics, and yoga.