subject: Getting Fit With Boxercise [print this page] I've done a range of sports training, and general fitness training over the years, competing in athletics, soccer, American football, tennis, badminton, and weights lifting, and for me, boxing is amongst the best ways in which you can either get healthy, or to stay in shape.
When many people hear of boxing as a means of getting into shape, or maintaining their fitness, there first thought is I don't like to get hit', and that is a fair point, but it's not necessary to get hit with the way I'll be discussing in this post. When I mention boxing in this article, it won't be you endeavouring to hurt someone, or someone looking to hurt you, it'll be you hitting boxing pads, a bag, or shadow boxing.
As with every type of exercise, it's of great importance that you loosen up and stretch first. I like to get the muscles nice and warm by either doing a couple of minutes at a light pace on the rowing machine, cross trainer, or skipping. These exercises ought to be done at a light pace, we're not looking to get fit via these exercise, we merely want to get the muscles warmed up and ready for action.
After we've warmed up for several minutes, it's then a case of grabbing some boxing gloves, and beginning your routine. If you are lucky enough to possess a punching bag handy, or someone with boxing gloves, you'll be working along with them, in order to exercise. In case you only have a pair of boxing gloves, you are able to shadow box. Likewise if you don't have any boxing gloves to hand.
To start with, you should stand in an orthodox boxing stance, and throw a jab with your left hand, then a right cross with your right. That is one rep, and we're aiming for 15. Next, you have to throw 2 left jabs and then the right cross. This is another set, and I'd like you to do 15 once more. That is a basic boxing warm up, and the next few exercises will require you to put plenty of effort into them. For your next exercise, you'll be throwing a left jab, a right cross, then a left hook, again, performing 15 reps of this. We'll then perform the same again, but this time around, swapping the left hook from the earlier exercise with a left uppercut. After doing 15 of these, we'll then do a left jab, right cross, and right hook. For the following exercise, it'll be just like the previous, but this time replacing the right hook for a right uppercut. This is the end of the boxing workout, and to end, we'll be throwing 20 quick punches towards the body, beginning with the left jab, then a right cross, then a left jab, right cross etc. Each arm should throw 10 punches each. Immediately after performing this 20, we'll do the same again, but this time punching straight ahead, at head height. After these 20, we'll then throw 20 of the identical punches, but this time upwards towards the sky.
In between each boxing set mentioned previously, try to be constantly moving by hopping on your toes, in a similar fashion to which boxers do in real life. You wish to be as light on your feet as is feasible, and constantly moving throughout. Try the boxing workout stated previously, and see how you get on. To start with you'll find it difficult, but after a couple of weeks, you'll require less rest mid workout, and you can perform a lot more than the one routine, doing many continuously.
