What exercises should i do if i want to be a boxer?

Question

what workouts should i do if i want to get into boxing, i have no prior experience boxing.

15 years old......125 pounds...5'8......long skinny arms......

Answer 1

The first thing you've got to have as a boxer is stamina, so start with roadwork.  Run every morning for at least 30 minutes, varying your pace, speed and distance each time.  Then do your jump-rope sessions, beginning with the basic and later on incorporating different styles and tricks.  Lastly, perform calisthenics and abdominal exercises.  These should get you in good condition for actual boxing gym work.

Answer 2

go to a boxing gym, get a trainer, listen and do what your trainer tells you to do

Answer 3

There are a number of workouts that you should do once you have started boxing, but there isn't much you need to do before you get into a boxing gym.

What I mean is that the best way to get ready for boxing is to get into a gym and start learning how to throw punches properly and then work on the heavy bag and shadowbox to improve your stamina and form.

However, once you have started your heavy bag workouts, there are a large number of other workouts you need to do in addition in order to get you ready for sparring.  Here they are in order of importance in my experience:

1.  Interval running training - Simulate the cardio you will need when you actually box.  Do sprints of two to three minutes, then jog slowly for one minute.  Do about five of these intervals so that you would be well prepared to go 3 rounds.

2.  Ab exercises - crunches, obliques (bicycles), leg raises.  This will strengthen your core to improve punching power as well as protect your internals when taking a body shot.

3.  Neck strengthening - Without any special equipment, you can lie on each side of your body on a bench and do head raises.  When you get serious, obtain some weights that can be wrapped around your head and do raises that way.  This will improve your ability to take punches by strengthening your neck muscles which will reduce whiplash/neck soreness when hit.

4.  Weight training - You should focus on light weights with high and rapid reps as you want explosive motions in boxing, not slow heavy weightlifting motions.  All parts of the body should be worked on, since you gotta use your feet in the ring to move around as well.  However, focus would be the shoulders and arms.

On a side note, do not begin sparring without at least 3 to 6 months of boxing training.  Even if you are a "natural" fighter (which very few of us are), you would still develop really bad habits if you don't first learn the right offensive and defensive techniques.

Answer 4

Run hard, make sure you have stamina! Do a bit of weight lifting, you are tall for a 15 year old so your body could still take another 10 pounds which would make you a bit stronger. Do a lot of stomach exercises, lots of ways to do this at your local fitness gym. Do a lot of speed bag for fast hands and take a class in dancing so to improve your feet positioning with balance and movement.

Get into ameture boxing as a lightweight so that you could eventually enter pros as a jr Welter, this would add like 3 more years to your pro career as you won't have to worry about making weight. Get a good trainer or ask your dad (uncle, brother, best friend...) to learn a bit of boxing so he can be your trainer, cause when the chips are down you will need a good figure in your corner.

Other than that, make sure you eat right, don't smoke anything, stop drinking, make sure you know what you want out of a woman so that you don't get confused and don't expect too much. Have lots of heart man, you are gonna get hit and make sure that when you hit another boxer, he knows you wanna hit him and that you are going to hit him again.

Complete the above exercises and you'll be a good boxer!

Answer 5

Before, my father used to train boxers.  As I observed, jugging is the 1st exercise that you must do in order for you to gain stamina and then do skipping rope so you could develop your footwork.  As an addition, you should do set ups and push ups.  Set ups would help you to get a durable stomach and the push ups would develop your power punching.  The last one for a begginer would be to do a shadow boxing in front of a mirror so you could improve your speed and you could see things that you should improve on your moves.