How to Increase My hand speed for Punches in boxing.

Question

I used to be extremely quick in my hand speed ( ex. like throwing Jabs and hooks) but ever since i started working out my upper body ive noticed that ive grown bigger but at the same time ive decreased my speed. Any 1 know why?

How can i get Extremely fast hands. so that you wont see me coming with that jab =)

Answer 1

Body building/bulking up is restricking your arm movement.  To be a good boxer, you need endurance exercises, not heavy weights.  To increase your hand speed, cut out the upper body workout and replace it with throwing puches on a heavy bag with small weights in your hands.  Throw punches with both hands as fast as you can for 20 seconds of reps and work your way up from there. Once your muscles get toned and used to this extra weight, you'll notice a big difference when you take the weights out of your hands.

Answer 2

When weight lifting, try to do more reps than usual.  Try to do work on the speed bag.  

Answer 3

usually plyometric exercises work in building punching speed.  exercises like pushups daily help build my handspeed dramatically.

Answer 4

You can build faster arms with resistance training and isometric training. Resistance training means using rubberbands to hold your arm back as you're throwing punches. Swimming can also be considered resistance training since it slows you down.

Isometric training is like going up to a wall and posing yourself in a punching position as if you're punching the wall. Then you push against it for 10-15 seconds for 3 sets at a time alternating arms.

The whole theory behind all this is that you're training your body as if it were a rubberband. You're training it to have to move faster through the resistance (resistance training) and also how to store massive loads of energy (isometric training) so that once your hold is released...BAM, it flies out like a charged up rubberband.