Amateur Boxing Training

Boxing is a popular sport around the world that many professionals and amateurs participate in. Learning to box can be fulfilling for getting in shape, meeting new people and learning to protect yourself. By starting a training routine, you can become a skilled amateur boxer.

  1. Types

    • There are different types of boxing workouts that will help your training in a variety of ways. The main types, according to Helium.com, are speed training, stamina/endurance training and power training. By combining these elements, you can shape yourself into a formidable opponent.

    Speed Training

    • Speed training involves working on your body's natural reflexes and agility. The speed bag is perhaps the most common form of speed training, and speed bags are available at most sporting goods stores. Practice your punch timing by alternately hitting a speed bag in rhythm with each hand. Skilled boxers can maintain this rhythm at extremely high speeds. Jumping rope can also help develop coordination and reflexes for boxing. Shadow boxing allows you to critique your own form as well as train your eye to respond to the quickness of your movements.

    Stamina/Endurance Training

    • This type of training focuses on conditioning the body for resilience in a fight. Such training often includes running, sometimes coupled with stair steps or weight training by running while carrying heavy weights. The legs and core are the most important part of stamina training. Not only do boxers train themselves to keep delivering punches over and over, they train themselves to have the stamina to continually take punches.

    Power Training

    • Power training isn't necessarily building bulk muscle. In fact, according to Hyperstrike.com, the training of many boxers is based on building lean, tight muscle that responds more quickly than bulky, large ones. To build this type of power muscle, boxers use punching bags to improve their punching power, as well as slow repetitions of weight training and calisthenics like push-ups.

    Sparring

    • Sparring is another part of training that can be combined with the aforementioned to give a fighter ring experience. Sparring is a type of educational fight used by each participant to better themselves. While it is still competitive, sparring is mainly to critique your own strengths and weaknesses as a fighter and get experience fighting different types of opponents.