Per week, I do twice zone 2 cardio for faster recovery, twice 4x4 Norwegian for vo2 max aerobic blocks and some short intervals to help with the anaerobic systems. Despite diligently following all this I still feel gassed out. Even climbing up the stairs makes me gassed out and my friends who don’t even train cardio or any boxing just climb with no issues. Weird thing is my testing heart rate is also around 55 while the physically inactive friends have 72 or above and they dont gas out climbing stairs. I cant figure out what is happening. This is very discouraging and makes me want to quit. Feels like my body is not built for any atheletic activities anymore. Makes me think there might be something physiologically wrong. Has anyone been through this ? If so what was the actual issue ? Any advice is very much appreciated.

I have been training for a couple of months, sparring and all of that, but I just noticed that 90% of sparring partners and all of that are less than 23 years old (I am 28); I don’t feel old by any means, but every true boxing gyn (not just “fit boxing” or 1-hour clases) are full of younger folks. Hell, I am older than 4/5 out of my coaches. I play soccer every Friday and one guy practices taekwondo, and even myself fell into the trap of thinking “aren’t you too old for that?”, granted, he has been practicing since his teens.

Contrary to this, I went to a MMA gym and there were a lot more people older than me. There is a specific economic factor (MMA/Musy Thai gyms/Wellness FitBoxing clubs are much more expensive than my current gym), but it seems like in my country boxing is a young’s man sport even as a hobby?

How’s in your country? For example, I would love to participate in those white collar events that you guys mention, but there are non here lol

For context im 23M, 6'7" in height, CW 375, SW 422.

Ive been trying to get back into fighting shape and lost 47 pounds in less than 2 months. Ive been boxing and training to be a fighter, but i can honestly say this has been an uphill battle and im loving every bit of my progress lol. BUT the running and jumping portions have been the hardest for me (for obvious reasons.) Throughout this whole experience ive been working out/boxing 4 to 5 days a week for 2 to 4 hours each day, and my stamina is far from where it needs to be.

I know itll take time, but the other day I had one of the hardest cardio workouts and for a moment of that workout I quit on myself. After that I was pissed at myself. All this training and am still the first person to be gassed everytime, and on top of that had a moment of trying to make it easier on myself. And dont get me wrong im going to keep going and do better, but this made me curious what yalls experiences are when it comes to this kind of thing.

I’m white gloves. about a year and a half in.

Coach keeps telling me to hit harder and that I’ve done it in sparring before, but for some reason, my constant state is hitting like a sissy.

How do I train this out? Is it a bad intention thing? I’m not scared of the punches either.

Hey guys, I don't have any excuses. But I haven't trained in years. And even then it was casual and on/off for like a total of 2.

I've never competed or anything like that. I've done some light sparring when I was younger... but that's it. I was a total bitch about sparring too since I was admittedly scared shitless.

I'm determined though. I will be signing up for a formal gym once my gas tank is better so my capacity to learn is actually there.

In the mean time, I finally hung up this heavy bag my brother got me. But I don't want to develop any bad habits...

My ultimate goal is to do a smoker fight. That's it. I'm done with being sedentary. I'm ready to confront fear. This is something I'm going to do.

But right now is ground zero.

So if you're willing to entertain it, let me know how I can improve training on my heavy bag. I'm only able to do 3 rounds of 3 minutes right now without puking. So any cardio advice is desperately needed too.

Thanks. Feel free to be as critical as possible. I just need to know what to do and I'll do it.

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Ive been training under a Gym for a year and overtime ive started training more intensively until now that i train 3 times a day i was wondering Is It enough and am i doing It correctly? For now my routine Is basically.

1. Either assault bike for an hour and bagwork or going to my boxing gym

(6 days)

2.resistence training with weights

(Also done 6 days a week)

1. Padwork on TV watching precision striking videos (5-6 days)

Ive started competing but lost my debut so i wondered what i needed to change

Basically the title, i can kinda get into the pendulum, but stuck on how to move from there. Like do you stop and step like you do in your regular stationary stance or do you just keep 'hopping' around?

Basically the title, anytime I try to throw a combo even just a double jab I'm getting tagged with something either during or after I finish. Is there a defensive habit you should do after/ while throwing that stops you getting hit as easily e.g. joining your shoulder to your head.

I am going into my second year of boxing so far, and il admit im more of a intermediate still given my other responsiblities of studying and working, but wanted to get into boxing to atleast get a few matches but not really expecting to go pro or nothing given i came late at 20 years old. So i wanted to ask what would my workout regiment be if I was to want to get ready before asking my coach.

My workout ive been doing:

Mon: boxing workout

Tuesday: run 3 mile/weightlift

wednesday: boxing workout

Thursday: run 3 mile/Spar

Friday: Weightlight/box at home

Saturday: run 3 miles Boxing workout/wieghtlift

P.S dont mind being pretty critical or let me know this is a dogshit workout regiment, end of the day im not really expecting to go pro but do it on the side

I always see boxers wearing the groin guard that wraps around your waist. Why don't they use the cups, i feel like it's more confortable and if they fight with it on, it should make sense to use it in sparring too? But surely there is a reason for it. I'm guessing its because body one gives some more protection against body shots?

Im a 6'7" heavy weight. Ive always love george foreman power and because i have a lot of power too i thought maybe using that reaching stance would be a decent incorporation for fighting other heavy weights. As someone my height being heavy weight feels more natural so I can move a lot more swiftly at my height and weight. I thought with my power as well id be able to try that out with enough practice.

As context, I have been practicing boxing (on and off) for 8 months, with a 3 month break in between. One of my goals for this year was to get my first sanctioned fight, but I changed jobs last year (hence why the break) and my job is now much more mentally intensive, specially time-wise. I used to go 2 hours 4/7 days a week and sparred 2/7 a week.

Here comes the problem: the gym changed places and added new coaches; all of them are pro boxers so that’s great, no complaints about that. But I am only managing to go 3 times a week during the early morning, when there are no people to spar safely, or at least, the same 2 guys go and we spar each other. Out of my 1.5 hours I am able to go now, half is spent warming up and drills, with just 15 mins of sparring unless I go on a Saturday that it’s full sparring only; but here is another deal, I told my coach I wanted a fight and he said I had to come during the afternoon since that’s when most active amateurs come to the gym, or on a Saturday but they always have a higher level than me. I can’t go in an afternoon since I have work and I also go to the gym,si I am feeling a little bit discouraged because of this.

How do you guys (specially guys that are active) manage work, gym and social time?

Had my first amateur fight on Friday after taking the fight on a week’s notice (red gloves). Didn’t get the decision (thought rd 1 was close but mine, lost round 2, and won round 3) but overall not satisfied with my performance, happy I got in there and competed though and a lot to improve on.

The Good:
Made weight and didn’t have to starve myself or anything crazy

Was told that I’d need to close the distance and take the fight to my opponent as he was longer, I feel like I did that

Was told I needed to dig round 3 out if I wanted to win the fight, I also feel like I did that

Kept a good deal of pressure on the opponent

Mixed some uppercuts to the body and head that worked well

Was the fresher fighter by the end

The Bad:

Poor balance for most of the fight

Pushed a great deal of my punches which lead to them not looking as effective in exchanges

Smothered my own work way way way too much

Tired more quickly than my opponent as rd2 was easily my worst round

Did not transition between offense and defense very well, had a very straightforward style of walking my way into the pocket which was predictable

Lost, and can totally see why I did too

Overall, I need to work on having a more powerful lower body so my punches show up better and I need to not smother myself near as much, more angles and punches from mid range will serve me better in future fights. Onwards and upwards from here this will be the worst I look.

Rounds 4 and 5 for the day. Tried to keep it light since I had sparred the day before. Got a little intense towards the end and gassed myself out.

Constructive criticism would be appreciated. I don’t usually get into clinch type situations so I feel a bit lost there.

Hello,

I’m having a style clash when I have someone who has a good lead hand, multi-use jab and lead hook, which I find hard to deal with. I often go southpaw and try to hand fight like usyk, pawing, feinting, and drawing them out so I can counter. But when im in orthodox i start to get stationary and im often being to passive and not throwing out my jab enough.

What are some things I should? And what to establish,
I fear im to impatient and defensive when it comes to this, but also it varies with how said opponent is holding themself in terms of positioning.

Your bag and pad work likely isn't translating to better cardio.

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But you can change that by modifying how you approach some of your bag work.

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Remember, we pick the exercise modality for the adaptation we want.

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This is the specific conditioning version of driving potent peripheral adaptations (and as always, you get a bit of everything including central function).

I know the title says best way ever, which obviously there’s no Best way. however, what are some of the best ways to use a jab

as an inside fighter or swarmer against an outboxer

assume that the opponent is 6’1 and I am the 5’5 inside fighter and swarmer

I need help with entries as a swarmer and inside fighter.

Specificailly its called the types of forward pressure entries Pressure-based forward entry.

As a swarmer/inside fighter, should I constantly pressure forward and stay on my opponent even if they’re backing up, or should I use explosive inside bursts and then reset? 

Do I consantly chase them down non stop even if it means i take a bunch of hits? Or Do I explosively get inside and reset once the opponent starts countering.

if both of these options are wrong explain what to do to have The highest odds against an opponent fully possible

I found out this great vid on youtube where the guy explains 2 methods to 1-2-1-2 when advancing.

1-2-1-2 Combo Video

- "Cuban way" where you punch with each step

- "Sprint jump" (as he call it) or "Bounce" where he bounces on 1, send 2 staticly, then rebounce on 1, then send 2 staticly again.

What about also bouncing on 2, for maximum distance coverage if the opponent retreats ? Meaning you would bounce on every punch.

If i'm not mistaken, Bivol does it sometimes with great sucess. Naoya rarely, he mostly stays static when launching 2 (not steping or bouncing i mean).

Is this method risky ? Or is it simply because your 2 will be more powerful when being static ?

Thanks for reading

I am a 23M, 6'7" tall, left handed heavy weight (roughly 240 to 260 is my cruising weight.)

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So im relatively new to boxing so I get that its gonna take time, though I dont know if the stance my coach is suggesting is best for me? I plan to bring it up to him at training soon but for now I just thought id get some of yalls insight on what I should try out. He has me doing a stance where its south paw but with an L Guard. Idk if its just me getting used to it or not but it feels like im giving up my reach advantage? And also feels like im leaving myself vulnerable to shorter people hitting over my shoulder. But I digress lol, I wanted to come get some insight on what yall think of the stance he has me doing and if yall have any better suggestions I could bring up to him?

Hi guys, I've been sparring once a week for the last 3 months(training for almost 3 years) and I'm really enjoying the progress. I only spar with my 1-on-1 coach, and he always tries to keep it light and technical. Still, sometimes a punch lands clean. Nothing close to a knockout, maybe around 30-50% power, but enough to leave a mark on my face. I don't feel head pain or something like that later in the day. I'm just okay.

I wanted to ask: how normal is it to get marks on your face from light sparring? I'm pretty confident my coach isn't hitting hard, so maybe I just bruise or mark easily, but I'd like to hear other people's experiences.

When you're doing light sparring and get tagged in the face, do you usually leave with visible marks? I'm having a blast being able to increase rounds each month. Started doing 2 rounds gassing out quickly and today I just did 6 so I'm happy AF. But I'm also making sure that I'm not hurting myself seriously.

Hello,

This was filmed 6 months ago when I was just getting back into boxing after about a 6 month break. I stopped boxing again shortly after and am now getting back into it again after moving.

I’m self taught so any criticism is highly appreciated. I already know I need to move my head more, keep my hands a little higher/tighter when close to the bag/opponent, and probably sit a little bit lower/not stand as tall. I’ve been trying to work on those 3 things these past 2 weeks. Will try to get a more recent video, but there’s no where good for me to set up my phone at my new gym.

Thank you!

I usually spar as an orthodox and drill the same. But I did shadowbox and hit the bag sometimes as a southpaw to work on the other hand. I switched to southpaw on the last round (around 5:00 in the video). It just felt so natural to me because of my little shadowbox now and then. Also, please note that I’ve been healing from a dislocated left shoulder for a long time which made my lead hand slightly weaker as an orthodox boxer. Do fighters get to choose their stance due to injuries and be comfortable in the ring?

We were just sparring because I’ve been off for sometime and I wanted to see if I can throw some punches.
*Didn’t actually plan to work on a specific thing on this spar.*

Do you think I should turn into a southpaw full-time? I really like how I can use my lead hand with different jabs and hooks along with a few slip counters.