Is hitting a Heavy,Heavy bag a must to gain power?

[Domain]

o ok, i misread it...None for nothing but those gel gloves suck ass. Get yourself some real wraps..good luck

man why do they suck? and F getting real wraps man you know how hard it is to wrap your hands right? i had some before **** took me ages to get right.

[fraidycat]

man why do they suck? and F getting real wraps man you know how hard it is to wrap your hands right?

There are no shortcuts in this sport. None.

Learning to wrap your hands takes about as long as it takes to learn to jump rope well, or rock the speed bag. Or to learn to throw a punch correctly, or to learn how to fight a southpaw, or. . . .

Learn to wrap your hands. It took me months of doing it every day. Even on days when wasn't going to the gym, I would wrap and unwrap my hands at home, sitting on the couch watching TV.

[Domain]

There are no shortcuts in this sport. None.

Learning to wrap your hands takes about as long as it takes to learn to jump rope well, or rock the speed bag. Or to learn to throw a punch correctly, or to learn how to fight a southpaw, or. . . .

Learn to wrap your hands. It took me months of doing it every day. Even on days when wasn't going to the gym, I would wrap and unwrap my hands at home, sitting on the couch watching TV.

man im so lazy though.

[judge_jab]

then boxing isn't the sport for you my friend!

[juggernautburn]

man im so lazy though.

after you do it the first few times, wrapping is like second nature and doesn't take much thought at all.

[Cutthroat]

Just from hitting my 100lb heavy bag every day I'm getting lats. I don't even do push ups or anything, or I haven't been doing them.


The bad thing is the right side of my body has more lat muscle cause I mainly jab with my left. I always throw a left jab and then a hard right cross. Most of the time I punch as hard as I can, which has caused my power to go up dramatically.

My wrists or my right wrist has been bothering me from the bag, 2 weeks ago I couldn't even bench press because the pain was too much. I've rested for 3 days and the pain is almost gone.

[Hitman932]

ive seen numerous people here complaining about joint pain, especially in the wrists.. i had this problem when i started hitting the 100 pound bag pretty regularly.... if youre boxing regularly you should take glucosamine chondritin or some other type of joint soothing supplement... boxing is all about pain, youre never going to avoid it, all you can do is be proactive...

also as far as hitting a heavy bag, i only wrap my hands if im gonna be throwing a lot of hooks... which isnt really my thing, otherwise i wear the gels under my gloves like domain cause my form is good enough on my jab/straight that im more worried about ****ing up my knuckles real bad than hurting my wrist.

[danny stash]

you guys are mistaken if you dont wear wraps. If you are LAZY go play ****ing softball and drink beer all day and stop wasting space on this forum.. How bout them apples?

[hemichromis]

you shouldn't be unching 300lb bags untill 200lb bags mve about too much when you hit them

you should always start with lighter bags nad before you even go on them your trainer should make sure your punching correctly

[Z-Rex]

I believe that punching power comes from proper technique. Use proper technique on the smaller bags and work your way up to the bigger bags. You will see a great improvement in your power when you are sparring.

Good luck.