Can you really lose weight boxing at home?
Yes! This article will reveal 3 tips you can include in your boxing workouts- at home, in the gym or anywhere!
Hot Boxing Weight Loss tip #1 - Technique Matters: Learn to punch correctly
Fitness Boxing students who pay even some attention to technique get far better fitness and weight loss results than those who just have a hit and giggle. It doesn’t take much more effort to do it the right way.
One of my students, Row has combined boxing workouts with swimming and lost more than 20 pounds. You can see a clip of her on www.boxout.com.au. Her superb technique means she gets far more than most out of each punch she throws. This has turbo charged her weight loss and fitness results.
Action Steps - Be a student of good technique. Look online or get a lesson from a BOXING trainer
Hot Boxing Weight Loss tip #2 - Power Punching: Putting more of you into your punches
Most beginners punch just with their arms. But the arm is really just the “nail,” while the hips and core are your “hammer”. Twisting the hips, driving with the core and rotating the body are your secrets to power punching and burning more calories.
Like a golf swing or tennis serve it’s using the whole body in motion which creates the result. Using those bigger muscles of the hips, core, legs and back naturally burn more calories and it gets those muscles into shape.
Action steps: Because you are going to be hitting harder, use proper boxing gloves, wrap the hands, tighten the fist just before impact. Breath out as you punch. Commit to your punches and follow through every time.
Hot Boxing Weight Loss tip #3 - Punches in Bunches: The more punches you throw the more weight you’ll lose
While this tip may seem obvious it’s incredible how many people don’t follow it when they do a boxing workout. If you took up jogging to get fit, you probably won’t achieve much if you just stroll to the shops. It’s the same for Fitness Boxing workouts. Throwing one jab every 5 seconds won’t cut it.
Action Steps: Throw your punches in bunches of 3 or 4 in rapid fire. For example Jab, Cross, Hook, Cross is better than just the occasional one-off Jab. Also, use a timer. Work in 2 or 3 minute rounds, rest, then go again. This is how boxers train. And we all know how fit, strong and lean they are.
Patrick Moore is a pro trainer, black belt and founder of Boxout Workouts & Fitness Boxing International. Patrick ran his first Boxout class in 1994, in a dusty old boxing gym, and now trains thousands of people and trainers every year.
For more tips or to check out a video & MP3 boxing program you can do at home, go to http://boxingathome.com or http://fitnessboxingonline.com