Boxing for fitness?

Spook_Nuke_Em

I've been doing some boxing training at home for exercise. Heavy bag, speed bag, jump rope, shadow boxing. Just seeing if anyone has some routines/tips they could share. Thanks

d2footballJRC

I've been doing some boxing training at home for exercise. Heavy bag, speed bag, jump rope, shadow boxing. Just seeing if anyone has some routines/tips they could share. Thanks

Look up UFC Power Punches Workout.

Boxing is a great workout. I remember thinking it wasn't going to be much of a work out and man it was a brutal work out!

Spook_Nuke_Em

I've been doing some boxing training at home for exercise. Heavy bag, speed bag, jump rope, shadow boxing. Just seeing if anyone has some routines/tips they could share. Thanks

Look up UFC Power Punches Workout.

Boxing is a great workout. I remember thinking it wasn't going to be much of a work out and man it was a brutal work out!

Thanks man ill check it out! Yea this has been a killer workout so far, plus it's fun.

callie_niccoli

I'm sure I don't look like the boxing type, but I used to box all the time! definitely look up some routines as suggested, but another thing you can do to change it up is just freestyle. Make sure your doing equal amounts of upper and lower body (punches and kicks), and believe me after about 5 minutes of going crazy on a heavy bag you will want to die.

RobynLB

I've been boxing in a traditional boxing gym 5-6 days a week 90 minutes a day for the past year. I am absolutely addicted. You MUST MUST MUST get into a boxing gym. It's not cheap, but it's totally worth the blood sweat and cash. Regular routine is: 15 minutes jumprope, a few hundred pushups and sit-ups, about 6 rounds on bag, mitts or shadow boxing, and about six rounds sparring, cool down with a few hundred crunches and pushups. Do this all while a Filipino yells "harder" and "faser!"

There's a group on here for boxing, and another for sport fighting. I've gotten good advice on drills for specific goals on the boxing forum.

Spook_Nuke_Em

I've been boxing in a traditional boxing gym 5-6 days a week 90 minutes a day for the past year. I am absolutely addicted. You MUST MUST MUST get into a boxing gym. It's not cheap, but it's totally worth the blood sweat and cash. Regular routine is: 15 minutes jumprope, a few hundred pushups and sit-ups, about 6 rounds on bag, mitts or shadow boxing, and about six rounds sparring, cool down with a few hundred crunches and pushups. Do this all while a Filipino yells "harder" and "faser!"

There's a group on here for boxing, and another for sport fighting. I've gotten good advice on drills for specific goals on the boxing forum.

Wow! That sounds like a CRAZY workout. I wrestled for years and had some off the wall training, but I think that'd take the cake. Thanks for the FR and advice! I'm going to apply some of that to my home routine.

dorothytd

I have a heavy bag at home and I love it! (I also take/teach kickboxing). Lately I'm really enjoying a mix of kicking and punching with spurts of bootcamp-type exercises in between... A example would be to burn out some punches and/or kicks. Follow with a minute of football runs, high knees and mountain climbers (8-10 count each, keep cycling through them). Back to the bag for another set of punching and/or kicking, then drop for push-ups for at least a minute (until you can't do any more) then back up to the bag, etc... Not fancy, but mixing it up is fun. And a challenge to do those push-ups with gloves on, ha.

Not MMA or as hard-core as my friend Robyn (she rocks!), but you'll sweat. Have fun!

Spook_Nuke_Em

I have a heavy bag at home and I love it! (I also take/teach kickboxing). Lately I'm really enjoying a mix of kicking and punching with spurts of bootcamp-type exercises in between... A example would be to burn out some punches and/or kicks. Follow with a minute of football runs, high knees and mountain climbers (8-10 count each, keep cycling through them). Back to the bag for another set of punching and/or kicking, then drop for push-ups for at least a minute (until you can't do any more) then back up to the bag, etc... Not fancy, but mixing it up is fun. And a challenge to do those push-ups with gloves on, ha.

Not MMA or as hard-core as my friend Robyn (she rocks!), but you'll sweat. Have fun!

Thanks Dorothy! That seems like something I can do at this point. After some time, I'll get to the point where I can do it like Robyn Thanks again guys!