/fit/ - Fitness, Health, and Feels

1xF find a boxing instructor

Boxer here.

Find a boxing gym, you can start slow with group classes etc before raising the heat and starting sparring.

Make sure you learn basics properly to avoid forming any bad habits. After you got the basics its possible to look up stuff from youtube and try to improve yourself.

btw prepare to get absolutely fucking rekt in conditioning, boxing training is brutal but rewarding. Also start learning how to jump rope If you want to look little bit less of retard at the start.

Joining a boxing gym is the obvious answer.

If you're looking for alternatives, start working on your cardio. Strength training doesn't help that much in that department. Running 1 hour three times a week will do wonders.

If you have or can get access to a heavy bag, wraps and gloves you can learn much of the basics on your own. You will, without doubt, develop some bad habits, but you can also learn quite a bit.

You can work on conditioning, coordination, speed drills, (functional) strength, etc. on your own. But you'll eventually need a partner to work the punch mitts and to spar. There's no way around this.

Title boxing has a series of instructional videos I torrented long ago that is quite good. I also remember Bas Rutten's Big DVD of Combat fondly, he covers striking in a rather unorthodox fashion. There are many other professionally produced video courses, stay away from youtube crap.

>>122203

You should save your noggin and buy an AK instead

>>122231

i failed on the first rep

>>122233

>btw prepare to get absolutely fucking rekt in conditioning

That guys speaks the truth. I was overweight when I started one year ago and I suffered for more than 6 months before I could do something decent during conditioning.

Also jump rope, I could only do 10 seconds first, now it's 10 minutes at the start of the class.

Most boxing gyms conditioning is a joke, just a bunch of abs and jumping around, really easy stuff.

They arent going to make you run 20kms every morning or anything like that.

Stay the fuck away from any gym where sparring will result in you getting fucked up. There's some gyms out there that let severely undertrained newcomers try to spar with fucking assholes that just want to beat on someone in preparation for an upcoming fight.

>>122246

retard alert is off the charts

the goal isn't to run 20km a day, it's to survive the 3 minutes of full intensity.

>>122909

I was replying to the guy above saying their conditioning is hard. It isnt, learn to read fatass, 3 minutes of full intensity is nothing

>>122919

My gym makes us run ~15km like two times a week. Also you have no clue. Boxing is probably most cardio intense sport there is, you really need to try sparring for full 3 minutes to get it

>>122919

oh wow this is hilarious, pretty much confirmed you never stepped inside the ring

>>122919

You have absolutely no fucking clue what you are talking about.

>>122938

I run 30-35 km a week, split into 3 or 4 sessions, as weather permits.

BTW, this is what happens when seriously fit people attempt a simple boxing workout:

http://rossboxing.com/2015/10/19/fitness-pros-try-boxing/