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It’s taken a while, in fact it has taken a bit longer than I had hoped,

but……

My Home Boxing Workouts program is finally here!

Instead of regurgitating all of the wonderful benefits of boxing workouts for fat loss, fitness and toned arms you can read through the articles below.

Boxing Workouts For Fitness

Boxing Workouts For Super Toned Arms

High Intensity Boxing Workouts For Fat Loss

Boxing Workouts For Everyone

Home Boxing Workouts – Sneak Peek

Home Boxing Workouts – Boxing Tabatas

Also, as promised in the Sneak Peak post, I am giving away a copy of the finished program. The winner (Drawn at random by Ashlea, my 3 year old!)

is……….

Stephanie – Who wrote: Dude that is way fast, there’s no way you could do that for 30 minutes.

Thanks to everyone for their feedback along the way. I can’t wait to hear your success stories in the weeks to come.

Man I am pumped! I am totally buzzing off the energy from the boxing session I just took.

I am jealous of the people that got to actually do the workout because they just got the best workout of their life!

High intensity and high energy, that’s what every workout should be like. You only get back what you put in from any workout, that’s just a fact. It’s the same with most things in life you have to but yourself out there, challenge yourself and make it happen.

If you aren’t putting in 100% at each and every session you are severely limiting your progress and will just make it longer until you have the body you have always wanted.

That’s why boxing is such a great workout. Even on a bad day you get a great workout. In fact if you’ve had a bad day, chances are that you will get a better workout!

And it is so easy to bring it when you are doing a boxing workout. Wether you are training by yourself, with a partner or within a group there is always a lot of motivation and energy flowing.

Compare this to other workouts where you can just go through the paces and make your way from one end of the session to the other without much thought or effort. Do you think this will get you where you want to be? Unlikely my friend.

Another big tick for boxing is that it can be low (or even zero) impact which is great if you need to look after your ankles, knees or back.

So let’s get this straight. Boxing is high energy, high intensity, burns a heap of fat, gets you fit in a hurry, isn’t boring like other exercise, gets better when you are stressed, can be done solo or with a partner and is easy on the joints?

Yes, yes, yes, yes yesyesyes………and yes!

Boxing is all those things and more. That’s why I rate it as one of the best all around workouts and the best conditioning exercise you can do.

Now get boxing!

At times you can stumble upon ideas and information in an unusual manner.

We all know that boxing workouts are great for your fitness and great for burning fat because of the high intensity and full body nature of the workout. Basically anytime you do a full body, interval based workout, you are going to get fit and lean in a hurry!

Now as you might know, Racheal managed to injure her knee last week and has been unable to do much lower body exercise during that time. But Rach loves her boxing and she was keen to make a comeback even if it meant that she would only be able to really use her arms.

Now when I teach people how to box, I really do emphasize the importance of working from the ground up with each and every punch. You have to be strong from the floor and deliver all of the power from the legs, through the hips and core and then finally deliver the punch with your fist. If you don’t do this you will run into a number of problems.

First of all your arms have small muscles when you compare them to your core and leg muscles. If you let your arms do all of the work they are going to fatigue very quickly. This is a problem because once your arms are gone the whole intensity of your workout is going to suffer and you will struggle to get your heart rate up and then miss out on most of the benefits of boxing!

Secondly, if you aren’t using your legs and core to generate the power behind each punch you will severely limit your output from both your heart rate and therefore your ability to burn calories and boost your metabolism.

So Rach certainly found out the hard way on Thursday that if you don’t use your legs, your arms are going to cop it. But please don’t take this as me saying that if you want to tone your arms and get a great upper body workout to use your legs less. In fact the opposite is true.

By using your lower body more you will be able to go harder for longer and get a better full body workout. This doesn’t mean that your arms are working less it is just that you are working smarter and by the end of the session your whole body (including your arms) will be done!

Box this way and you will get all of the benefits that go with intense boxing workouts. Fitness, fat loss, tight stomach and toned arms.

This week I stood back and let Racheal take our group boxing session. Rach had hurt her knee and wasn’t going to be boxing anyway, and I had to do a conditioning session on Tuesday as part of my training.

Now let me tell you this. If boxing doesn’t get you fit, nothing will. Period!

Ready To Go!

The sessions we run involves working with a partner and doing pad work. So in essence you get a ‘rest’ ever other round. The thing with knowing that you have a rest approaching is that you work harder and harder on each work set! So when it comes to your turn to be on the pads it isn’t really that much of a rest!

Long story short, boxing will get you fit and lean in a very short time.

If you want to get fitter and lose some belly fat then you have to consider boxing. People spend too much time on traditional ‘cardio’ equipment thinking that it will get the results they want. In fact I would argue most of the exercise done with traditional cardio equipment is a waste of time.

Machines such as treadmills, elliptical trainer and exercise bikes are generally used with a very casual intensity and people will use them for months on end and not change their body one bit.

$2 Rope = WIN. $10k Elliptical = FAIL

Compare this to a typical boxing workout where the intervals are short, lets say up to three minutes each, and the intensity is a lot higher than other forms of exercise. When you combine this with the anaerobic nature of the movements involved you have a very potent formula that will get you fit and lean in a very short time.

Working at this high intensity for shorter rounds takes a lot more effort than the typical ‘walk in the park’ type cardio that you will often see but it also burns through a whole heap of calories as well. As an added bonus you will find that your body will be burning through the calories for long after the actual workout itself because you will have raised your metabolism to new levels.

You may be surprised how many muscles you actually use when you do a boxing session and you may find that the day after your first workout that you have woken up some previously dormant ones. After my workout on Tuesday I found that it was my abs and core muscles that were ‘alive’, not just my arms and shoulders which were pretty good.

So if you ask me, boxing has to be one of the best all around workouts that you can do.

1. It’s Time Effective
2. You’ll Get Fit Very Quickly
3. You’ll Burn A Heap Of Fat
4. Tone And Strengthen your Arms
5. Tighten And Tone Your Abs