Improving Handspeed: Modern and Old School Training

Padwork, is a great Plyometric Routine :good

 

So is Skipping, Bagwork and certain forms of Rollerskating

 

Well, without discussing who does the better padwork, or if it's choreographed: the task is to hit the pads as quickly as possible. Although that's just speed-improvement by practicing a routine. The real speed-improvement comes from metabolism.

 

Metobalism , hasnt a big a part to play as Neurophysical adaptions.

 

Neuro's surely important as well. But if you got bad oxygen-ratio your muscles don't work 100%.

 

Thats true, but not the bottom line.

 

Jeez! Are you guys physios or what? Next thing someone's gonna mention oxygen debt and differences in muscle fibers.

So it's plyometrics huh? I guess people do clap-pushups and jump-squats for a reason.

 

What about "punching" :think

You know, bags, shadowboxing, pads and sparring.

 

Yea, you're right...I guess I was just thinking of general plyometrics and forgot that the thread was on boxing specific plyometrics to address handspeed. You couldn't be more oldschool than hitting the bag/pads/shadowboxing.

 

Build an explosive athletic body with plyos
Maintain a strong cardio system to maintain high demands of speedy movements
Increase balance and coordination
Maintain flexibility and muscle health by proper recovery and stretching
Perform perfect and consistent motor skills practice

= speed.

I think the most important thing to being a speedy athlete is how you approach things naturally, you want to naturally seek the speed option in conflict situations and develop your tactics and strategy viewed from a person who thinks principles of speed as a first option. Looking at Sugar Ray Leonard, you can see someone who clearly thinks like a speedy boxer, the physiological ability to be fast isn't in the only thing that matters.

Although reaction time has a lot to do with it aswell, including like scrap pointed out, eye sight. Some things that can't be improved by training. Majority of true speedsters are born that way.

 

Interestingly up to 16 SRL was a Gymnast.

 

You think you were, they don't make you any faster.

 

You only feel faster after getting rid of the weights, actual speed remains unchanged.

 

Before this vid, I've never seen pac training out of an orthodox stance (mid of video). Perhaps this was to strengthen his right hand.

 

It does work my friend. If you're familiar with powerlifting, they spend an entire day working on dynamic work (speed.) It's done with a lighter weight, 50% or so, and done for fewer reps.

Point being, speed can, and does, improve through resistance training.