How do you train at home away from the gym? What should you do? Away from the gym I jump rope and shadowbox with light dumbbells from 3-10lbs, do roadwork, shadowboxing and calisthenics. Anything else I can do at home on my own? Or anything with a partner? Just anything to improve my boxing or conditioning or any drills etc. Much appreciated.
Shadow Box (without dumbbells, they mess up the movement pattern) Tennis ball drills Jump Rope Drills (with a partner)
What's your goal? Fitness or boxing? Most people will say, and I agree that boxing can only be learned in a proper gym where bad habits can be corrected and knowledgeable trainers can critique you for improvement. Outside if a gym, i'd work strictly cardio/conditioning. I'm tempted to say other basic things like slipping or blocking, but then again there are still right and wrong ways to do that so you definitely don't want to get accustomed to doing it wrong. Bad habits become engrained in muscle memory and become harder to correct, than learning fresh.
Like many people have said, what's your main goal? Fitness or actually learning to box? I think for the most part you'll be able to do the cardio stuff but things like technique and sparring practice might be a little hard. Also, do you have a heavy bag? That's also a big part of boxing training.
Being creative with shadowboxing and drills work just fine to me whenever I can't go to gym. I mix between: - Defense and footwork. - Speed. - Use of different stances (with respectives offensive/defensive drills). - Increase or decrease the gap in different efective ways. - Combinatons you are used to with new ones. As you train by yourself you have the freedom to experiment a little and add some new tools. However you should be way too strict about the technique itself before start to repeating (practicing before in front of a mirror helps) as you won't have your coach to correct you. Muscles will remember your mistakes. I also believe you should focus on conditioning but working new things will keep you motivated and would make you a more complete and smarter fighter.
Sprints Lots of shadow boxing, where there's a reflection if you can, so you can see where you need to tighten up or whatever Work on your footwork, skipping, pull-ups and if you know friends who box all you need is two pairs of gloves and a head guard apiece to spar.. Non-gym nights me and my friends always used to spar, if you know what your doing you can keep technique tight and work on what your trainers are pulling you up on in the gym Do plenty of conditioning work aswell
