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Boxing Training Offers Great Opportunities For Aerobic Work Outs
By David P Hurley

As well as offering great defensive training, boxing, mixed martial arts, boxing kung fu and so on offer great opportunities for aerobic work outs.

Boxing and marital arts offer superb body co-ordination and evasion training as you have to practice moving your body so as not to get hit just as much as you seek to hit your target. Because of this aerobic factor, boxing, for example, has moved beyond the youth boxing clubs and is now a more common feature of some health clubs.

Boxing practice is a great way to burn fat and develop lean muscle mass, especially nowadays when so many of us are inclined to overeat. When someone eats too much the excess calories are stored as fat. In order to convert the fat to energy it is necessary to engage in some form of physical activity. Boxing is an excellent solution. It is so much more enjoyable than jogging or simply working out in a gym, and you also get an opportunity to take out your stress on the punch-bag!

As part of your boxing routine you should also include skipping and medicine ball practice for further aerobic and strength building work.

How many days a week should you train? Twice or three times a week is sufficient for ordinary purposes of improving overall health, weight regulation and aerobic fitness. Taking up boxing as a method of weight control is a pretty straightforward procedure. All you need is time, a desire to improve and the persistence to see it through two or three times a week. Do that and you will obtain some good results.

While it is true that a lot of boxing practice actually involves equipment training more than punching, some form of sparring practice is recommended in order to get the full benefit out of your boxing training. For this reason a gym that features boxing workouts, or a dojo where you can practice mixed martial arts, boxing kung fu or something similar, are ideal for this sort of training.

However, if for some reason you are unable to attend a gym or sign up to a dojo, you can easily practice most aspects of a boxing regime at home. You can easily set up a punch-bag. Hitting a heavy bag will still a very beneficial part of your aerobic workout.

What you would most likely be missing out on by not attending a gym would be the chance to spar with a partner. One of the great benefits of having a sparring partner is that it makes you focus. You also have to deal with a higher level of unpredictability as your partner throws a variety of punches that come at you at different velocities and trajectories and from different angles.

But, even without the benefits of a sparring partner, boxing training, whether undertaken by yourself at home, or in a gym, offers an excellent method of improving your strength, stamina, co-ordination and aerobic condition, while at the same time helping you to shed excess body fat.

David Hurley provides Internet Marketing Strategy tips for business people and inventors seeking to gain publicity for their websites. This article is written in cooperation with personal fitness trainer “Boxer-Balls Brendan”. Brendan has invented a dynamic boxing training device which achieves devastating results. See the demo video at: http://boxerballs.blogspot.com.

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It’s interesting to me that with all the fancy cardio and strength training equipment available to us today one of the cheapest best ways to get fit is boxing.  Boxing gear is fairly reasonably priced at most Boxing or Martial Equipment estores.  I read about how effective high intensity interval training is for losing weight and improving overall cardiovascular fitness and I think, boxers have always known about this. HIIT is nothing new to a boxer, they’ve always trained in short burst of high intensity followed by a short recovery time. Intensely hitting a heavy bag for 2 minutes and taking a minute off for 5 or 6 rounds will definitely improve your health as well as your waistline.

If you aren’t already getting started you should. Discover the many fitness benefits boxing supplies. Benefits which include optimized cardiovascular function, balance, speed and reaction time, muscle power and coordination.

Hey see your doc before starting a new exercise routine. ok. good.

Here’s a very basic routine to get you started.

Boxing Supplies Required:

* Heavy Bag

Optional Equipment & Boxing Supplies:

* Jump Rope

* Weighted gloves

* Training gloves (boxing gloves)

That’s it

The purpose of a warm up is to warm up the muscles and joints you’ll be using and get the heart rate up a bit to increase bloodflow to your muscles. 2 minutes jumping rope will do the trick OR a light 5 minute jog while shadow boxing will also be sufficient. Weighted gloves will come in handy here if you choose the latter.

Stretching: If you want to stretch as part of your warm up that’s fine. I stretch but not as part of my warm up.

All you really need to get started is that big bad heavy bag and a stopwatch. For now don’t worry too much about form or the difference between a jab, right cross, uppercut, etc.. Stances, combos those will come. Just start hitting that bag at a nice steady, intense pace for about 2 minutes. Take off for 60 seconds and go at it for another 2. Do at least 4 rounds and over the coming weeks add about 10secs per round per week til you get up to 3 minutes.

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