I have been going to my local boxing club since the start of last year. At first this was to get healthy as I was very out of shape but in the last couple of months I have decided to dedicate myself to boxing and take it more seriously by aiming to make my amateur debut within the next 2 - 4 months. I do however not have a very consistent routine other than jogging 5 days a week while also mixing in squats, crunches, planks, push ups and hitting the heavy bag for 5 rounds. I am 17 years old, 162 pounds and 6 feet 0 inches and would love if anyone could give me some advice or maybe even a routine for someone of my size that I can work towards if I want to become a very good amateur boxer. How many push ups, squats, rounds, miles do I do? Shouldn't I be doing some of these things? Any advise would be great. Thanks.
Have you considered talking to some of the more experienced fighters at your club? For AM boxing I would assume the technical aspect of boxing is more crucial to work on than purely circuit style training. People in my gym tend to skip as a warm up and then shadow box holding weights. They will then run through their pad work and hag work before finishing on a circuit. I'm unsure how effective that would be to work toward an AM fight but I would say just a healthy routine that you can 'feel' the next day is probably ideal
If you have a good coach do what he tells you is the main thing. You seem to have the right idea; conditioning, conditioning, conditioning. Study video of good boxers, find out what your strengths and weaknesses are. Do as much semi sparring as you can. When you have a live body to practice with learn to clinch. Your sparring partners are your most important pieces of training equipment--don't break them. If I had it to again I'd use a cage face saver for sparring head gear. It'll protect your eyes best and won't interfere with your breathing like a regular face saver. Keep your chin down and your hands up. Also, when your starting out don't get sloppy, learn right. Remember **** poor practice produces **** poor performance.
I would recommend taking the advice of any veteran in your gym over the strangers on this forum, but what I have heard alot of the best say is that shadow boxing is far too under utilized in training, jack dempsey even regarded it as the second most important exercise only to sparring. it will improve every aspect of your game and you should do it every day and be focused and not slack off when your doing it like most people do. Particularly you'll notice that you will move easier, have better rythm, more faster and explosive punching plus will give you muscular back muscles, the purpose is more of doing it consistantly every single day then having a rest day so dont push yourself too hard at first. Best of luck in the amateurs.
I will tell you what ! As a running coach I incorporate shadow boxing for balance and it is good training
