Equipment & Supplies for a Boxing Gym

Series Summary

Boxing is a combat sport in which two participants of similar weight fight each other using only their fists. Boxing today is conducted in a regulated way, usually in a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. A winner is determined if the opponent is knocked down and unable to get up before the referee counts to ten, or if the opponent is deemed too injured to continue. If there is no stoppage of the fight before an agreed number of rounds, a winner is determined either by the referee's decision or by the scorecards of judges.

Sometimes in training, an athlete can only train as much as his or her equipment allows. In this free video series, a boxing coach and trainer will teach you what equipment and supplies you need for a boxing gym. With these tips, your training facility will be complete and prepared for all of a boxer's training needs. You'll learn about heavy bag gloves versus sparring gloves, headgear, mouthpieces, focus mitts, and hand wraps. You'll also learn about exercise equipment such as hand weights, medicine balls, and push up bars. So, get your gym ready are start training for that title bout!

Video Transcript

"In this segment we're going to be talking about the miscellaneous boxing equipment, not the major stuff that you normally wound find in the gym as requirements, such as the boxing ring, and the heavy bags, and the speed bags. But, today we're going to be dealing with a lot of the individual, miscellaneous equipment. And, we're going to be talking about everything from the actual heavy bag gloves, used on the heavy bags, to sparring gloves. We'll talk about the differences and why one should be used for sparring and why one should only be used on the heavy bag. We're going to be covering the different types of head gears. There's sparring head gears and then there's competition head gears, and the two cannot be mixed there either. We're also going to be talking about the different kinds of mitts. So, we work on the focus mitts. There's a coach's mitt that's used to actual punch the boxer back if he leaves his hands down. There are smaller micro mitts. We're also going to be talking a little bit about punch shields, some ab rollers, and we're going to get into a little bit more detail about the mouth pieces. Make sure they're form fitted; the difference between the youth mouth piece and the adult mouth piece. So, as we go along, we'll be doing a little bit more detail on each one of these things."