Why Box?
It’s the easiest to learn. But you'll spend a lifetime trying to master it. In the gym we never got into discussions about whether boxing was the best or the most effective martial art, but we certainly understood and agreed that it’s the easiest of them all to learn...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Boxing Gloves
As much as
one—third of all boxing injuries involve the hands. Boxing gloves combined with hand wraps can help prevent hand, thumb and wrist injuries and a condition that is commonly known as 'Boxers Fracture', which is a breakage of the ‘neck of the 5th Metacarpal. Quality Boxing gloves help to stabilize your hand and wrist area dramatically reducing...
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The Easiest & Most Effective Way to Learn Boxing
If you want to learn how to box, my best advice would be this; Turn off the computer, pick up the yellow pages, look under ‘B’ for Boxing or ‘M’ for Martial arts and give your local boxing gym a call, that’s what I did. Or alternatively ask someone if they know...
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9 Common Sense Boxing Tips For Beginners
Fluids are very important, simply being a little dehydrated can reduce your perfomance by 20%. Eating and drinking properly
before, during and after a training session means that about 1 hour before you train you eat something with carbohydrates in it e.g. Cereal, bananas
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The Dangers Of Boxing
In 1928 an American pathologist wrote a paper entitled "Punch Drunk" in which he drew attention to a condition that was largely unknown back then. He put pen to paper and said, "Many cases remain mild, but in severe cases there many develop a peculiar tilting of the head
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Boxing Accreditation Courses in Australia
Level 1 Accreditation: Before you can apply to gain your level 1 certification you need to complete a Beginning Coaching General Principles Course. You can learn all about the details of the course at the Australian Sports Commission website Each state and territory
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Overtraining & Fatigue Part 1
The greatest thing that you can do to prevent fatigue and over training is set a
specific goal and stick to it, in this case it ought to be boxing training. I emphasize the word specific because you are either engaging in cardio work whereby you may do a lot of running
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Overtraining & Fatigue Part 2
Without wanting to project my personal experiences onto others, I’d like to expand on Part 1 of this subject with an important insight that I gained through many years of making the mistake of overtraining time and time again. I wasted many years of my life through
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Gardening For Sports Nutrition
It seems the innate law of the universe — that things thought of as quick ‘solutions’ always have a down side. Getting hidden benefits from anything in life almost always means work. It’s easy to believe, because it’s convenient, that the panacea to all sports nutritional
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The Jab
In this article I talk about how to execute the jab properly using your body weight and maintaining proper balance. A series of photos demonstrate firstly how to get into the correct stance, then how to shape up properly so that your jaw and ribs are protected from incoming blows
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Train at the best boxing gyms in the world
The idea of this article is to open your eyes to some of the best boxings gyms and trainers in the world. Not many people realise that they
are open to the public. If you are planning on an overseas trip, it might be a good idea to keep these gyms in mind
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Boxing With Speed & Strength: a Beginners Guide
I present this article as an overview and basic introduction of key concepts in strength training. I make the assumption that those reading are new to the field. So it is by no means a comprehensive guide. The real motivation is an attempt to introduce and broaden your
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The Straight Right
The straight right is most people’s favorite punch in boxing. It’s a weapon where you can generate both high velocity and high force, thus it’s a power punch and is often used to knock an opponent out. Once you understand it you'll have a better appreciation of its carry over effects to other sports.
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Balance in Boxing
Proper balance and mobility in boxing is one of the most important things you’ll ever learn in the sport. In this article I talk about a few areas that are important and things that you might want to consider when working on this part of your training
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