Sports
Boxing - Know Your Punch Bags by Harwood E Woodpecker
[Jun 20, 2008]
Boxing has always been seen as a noble art, anyone who has ever been involved with the sport will tell you that the raining is hard but only half the story. To be a boxer you need to be totally dedicated and let boxing consume your life and you need to have nerves of steel when you step in the ring. That's wonderful if you've got the fitness levels to get you to a stage where you can get on the road to being a boxer. But what about those mere mortals such as you and I who are looking for a release after a long day at work or some where to channel the frustrations of life that we encounter in our day to day lives. How can we use boxing as a way of keeping fit?
Boxing at any level is hard. Don't be fooled into thinking that just because you are a normal guy who doesn't want to fight at the Olympics and therefore won't go to the extremes of the professional guys that it will be easy, it isn't. Boxing is energy sapping, you are throwing punches and using footwork to move around a bag or opponent put these together for a two minute round and you'll soon start to feel it.
All amateur and beginners boxing is based around a two minute round with a one minute break between rounds. This minute isn't always used as a break. A really good way of boosting your fitness levels is to maybe to one set of twenty squat-thrusts, press-ups, burpees, crunches or star jumps. You can take a break between the rounds, or even ever other round but doing a set of these exercises will make a big difference, and you will know you've trained hard at the end of the session.