Practicing Boxing with Heavy Bags

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.

One of the most common and recognizable pieces of boxing training equipment is the heavy bag, a punching bag that comes in various sizes and weights that is intended to be used for boxers to practice their punches upon. In this free video series, a boxing coach and trainer will teach you how to do a heavy bag workout, form the basic stance to working on jabs, hooks, and punch combinations. With these tips and techniques on boxing training, you'll be able to properly work on your approach and punches in order to get ahead of your potential opponents!

Video Transcript

"In this series, there is going to be clips involving working the heavy bag. As part of the introduction, what I want to stress is to actually wear a lot of protection. You should always wrap your hands first, there's also little slip-wrap covers you can wear if you don't want to do the actual wrapping. And then, a good pair of bag gloves also. The other thing I want to stress is: don't think you need to spend ten or fifteen minutes at a time on one bag, just hitting that same bag over and over again. What I like to see is approximately nine rounds per night on the heavy bag. But what I like to see is have the boxer do three rounds with a normal speed and power and then go do something else, speed bag or something, and then come back to the heavy bag again. This time concentrating on power, maybe using a heavier bag. Don't worry about the speed part - just on power. And then, go do something else, double-end bag maybe. Then come back again to the heavy bag, this time concentrate on speed. Don't worry about your power, don't worry about getting everything perfect, just snap off a lot of punches. Maybe wear the punch mitts and actually get a good count on a number of punches. So, a little bit later, we're going to be discussing all the different moves on a heavy bag, and exactly what we need to do."