Did any other fighters use a 300lbs punching bag?

Using a 300 pound heavy bag is more than developing a punch hitting a bigger heavier target. It’s also used to develop overall body strength pushing around physically a 300 pound object. Marciano specifically would bob and weave under and around the bag and come up with combinations.

 

Jeffries used a 300 pound heavy bag filled with sand.

 

LOL, that might be an interesting event for the World's Strongest Man competition, have them lift that 500 pound bag by themselves and hold it long enough for someone to hook the chain. Hitting it wouldn't require anything special but lifting it would be impressive!

 

Using a 300 lbs punching bag is the same as punching a padded brick wall. The final results will be damaged wrist,elbows,and shoulders. A punching bag is designed to "give" a little, that's why there typically hanging from something. A old trainer told me a punching bag shouldn't be more than half the weight of the typical fighter that uses it. So unless the fighter is weighing 600 lbs...... Theirs no real reason for 300 lbs bag, other than shortening a fighters career by using one.

 

No there IS a reason...when you hit like Foreman. George hit a 300 lb bag like an average hwt hit a standard bag.

 

People don’t have his kind of success with one punch power alone.

 

Did you wrap your hands and put on gloves?

 

Especially attrition fighters...

I wonder if Marciano or anyone on his team ever spoke about the rationale behind their use of heavier bags.

 

Well just any fighter really. No elite boxer can do it on that alone. They always seem to have at least one other type of X factor as far as I can tell.

 

That was a sincere question, @HOUDINI!

 

Half the weight of the person who's hitting the bag is far too light. A bag under 100lbs flies all over the place when being hit and provides little resistance. I don't want to knock your trainer, but I completely disagree with him. Any bag under 100lbs that I've hit never gave me a good workout and didn't give me much benefit to using. It moves waaaay more than a person will when being hit, and if you're looking to improve footwork, combinations, hand-eye coordination, etc on a moving target while punching, you're going to benefit much more with someone using the mits properly.

Almost every time I've hurt my hands or wrists on the heavybag was because it wasn't broken in, not the weight. I've hurt my hands and wrists equally from hitting a bag that was rock hard whether it was 80lbs or 50lbs more. The weight increase didn't hurt me, it was the bag quality.

 

Typically, not set in stone. Of course if a fighter is more experienced he or she probably needs to use a heavier bag. But again a 300 lbs bag is not necessary to develop proper skills, and power and in the long run, more than likely it will hurt the fighter.

 

My gym had a big pillar in the middle covered with padding.

Punched it many times, as did other people at the gym. Never broke anything, and don’t recall anyone else getting injured using it.

It was the most satisfying for power punching, although you had to be careful not trying to punch through it. It wasn’t ideal for prolonged periods because it’s just a static target.

 

No

 

Some of these replies are idiotic.

The heavier the bag, the harder your punch will become. That's a fact. Where's the resistance in a bag that fly's all over the place?

Light bags are good for movement, but even then you can't go full clip on them because they fly all over the place and make it unrealistic.

Most gyms have both, and I'd encourage anyone to use both due to the reasons stated above.

But seriously, you can't practice on a bag half of your weight and ever expect to keep punch harder. Ain't happening!