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One excersice I like to recomend to my boxers, when to do i cojuction with weighered shadoow is simply, in the mirror punch straight punches with light weights for 6 rounds, with 30 sec breaks, after dealing with the heavy bag...

 

One excersice I like to recomend to my boxers, to do in conjuction with weigheted shadow boxing ...is simple, in the front of the mirror ...punch straight punches with very light weights for 6 rounds, with 30 sec breaks, after you have done your heavy bag work...after 3 rounds of just punching with thelight weights you will be exhausted and can hardly lift your arms, but after sometime of this drill you will start feeling the difference

 

do you mean throwing a 1-2 as fast as you can for the round? Or just regular speed?

 

No , never as fast as you can, this will work detrimentally to the work out, ...you need to get at a fight rhythm tempo, and bu the way your stance will be conventional just move forward and backwards, not side to side...remember this excersice is for the arm muscles and shoulder muscles....

 

dennis i want to a great body puncher as cotto, what should i do?

 

what is a good number of rounds on the bag for an amature fight.
the trainer at my gym has us do 12 rounds on the bags at the start of our session is this good for training for a 3 or 4 round amature fight. Would it not be better to work at a harder intensity for 4 or 5 rounds.

 

ok thank for the advice

 

Disagree, a body pu cher style is a discipline that reaquires total dedication to this style and follow up....the only way you can trained to be a body puncher and increase your power is all technique and foot work...You ahve to work on a daily bases on your leverage and footwork, and open your stand slightly, keep hour hands high elbow tuck , and do as many excercise to your waite area getting use to use the torque of the rotation of the waiste ands you bend to side to delivery body punches with both hands....a lot of medicine ball drill rotation back and forth, picking the ,medicine ball from the left side of the floor with both hands bring it over your head and putting on the right side, your coach bring it back to the left side and repeat for 10 per side change side and repeat this is a daily excersice for about 4 reps rer side...and then go to the body bag and concentrate on left hook low to the body back and force....

 

O, how exactly does what you say disagree with what he says?

 

Simple, it is easy to say I want to be a body puncher, but every hard to accomplish..if you do these excersices I recomended you will understans the demands on yhour body .....will and determination is one thing, but if you don;t muscle memory your body for the torque and leverage required for the body punches..then you are not training for success

 

From a technical aspect you guys basically agree. You are saying body punching is easier said than done. I'd say that is basically boxing as a whole. It is hard enough to learn something let alone put it into action.