The best way to increase punching power..

[Danny_123]

oh really? the fact that you think his post is "accurate" is enough for me to not even take you seriously.

yah, man you're so smart because you can type posts properly on a boxing forum. and yet your brain processes what that guy wrote as pretty accurate. ***ing joke.

dude he is pretty spot on with his post....aside from all the swearing

[TacticalW]

Well, I've finally decided to take boxing seriously and for a month alongside my usual bodybuilding I did punches with 10lbs weights in my hands as fast as I could while doing it perfectly and shadow boxed, worked on my technique and later started using 15lbs weights for all of the punches. I was about to start sparring after my 4th day back in the gym I used to be at a week ago but we did a lot more mitt/bagwork and despite doing proper wrapping I sprained my fists and did something weird to 2 knuckles. I have a wide frame, 6 foot 3 and I'm 174lbs while at 6% body fat. I excercise every muscle a good deal.. going to be a cruiserweight and later heavyweight. I was really hoping to have my first ameteur match organized within a month, but this is setting me back a few weeks.. the only mistake I made was using the thinner wraps I had from ages ago when I went for a few months and didn't take it seriously. Oh and I train 3-4 hours a day at the moment on cardio, strength, endurance, boxing drills, shadow boxing etc. (been like that for the past 2 and a half months, just racked up enough extra money to join the gym I used to be at.

Personally I really recommend working on the technique and making sure you rotate every part of your body properly so all of the momentum goes into the fist and punching with dumbells in your hands really does help a good deal as well. After a lot of punching to me my punches are just starting to "feel right", I know the feeling of a punch with good technique when I'm shadow boxing and it really makes a good impact on the bags/mitts.

[mathed]

Actually it was a lot of theoretical hogwash. The first mistake was the formula, correctly stated it is force equals mass times acceleration (F=MA). This isn't splitting hairs, there is a difference. In any case if it is possible for anybody to learn how to punch like George Foreman, why isn't anybody doing it?

F=MA=M*dvelocity/dtime where d= change or derivative

This is simply the mass times the change in velocity over the change in time, which means that the faster you can increase the velocity or speed of your fist, the more force will be generated. This can be accomplished with stronger legs, back, and practice.

The power is created by force times velocity, so we can see that power is mainly created by velocity and the more mass that something has, the more power is present.

[hemichromis]

F=MA=M*dvelocity/dtime where d= change or derivative

This is simply the mass times the change in velocity over the change in time, which means that the faster you can increase the velocity or speed of your fist, the more force will be generated. This can be accomplished with stronger legs, back, and practice.

The power is created by force times velocity, so we can see that power is mainly created by velocity and the more mass that something has, the more power is present.

you have that confused.
it makes no difference whether your fist gets to 30mph in 0.0001 seconds or 10 seconds if it hits at the same speed it will do the same damage.

what you mean is this:

the faster the opponent's head velocity is increased by your punch the more damage will occur. this is dependant on weight in the punch and speed.

[DiLLiNGER]

some are just born with it,thomas hearns had one fo the most devastating punches in his era and esspecially hard puncher for his weightclass,he did lots of push ups on his knuckles while havin his feet on a table,also doing shoulder presses with dumbells gives u better punching power..when doin push ups do them slower and sometimes stop in the middle while goin up..hold it for a few seconds.

[Spartacus Sully]

Question:

5 lb bowling ball is falling for 1 second at 9.81 meters per second squared(gravity). it hits a 100% unelastic object how many lb's or tons of force occurs at impact.

Show your work!

im sure if you can figure that out you can some how relate it to an equation to where you could say i make impact at 25 mph after .3 seconds with 5lbs it does X damage

[AssasinKing]

Alot of it is technique. If you put your legs into your punches, rotate your hips, and practice your power will come. Some people are blessed, others have to work to gain power.

This......

[Spartacus Sully]

so 5 lb fist moving at 25 mph hits your head and takes .1 second to stop

F= 5lb * 25/.1

f=5 lb *250 miles per hour per second

250*.0455= gravitational aceleration (g's)

F=5lb * 11.375 g's

f= 56.875 pounds of force

Id imagine though that your fist stops more quickly then .1 seconds and you punch with more then 5 lb's of mass that is if you put your body into it.

[Spartacus Sully]

Ok so that being said the first thing that will increase your punching power most quickly is by increasing mass so by praticing punching and putting your body weight behind the punch you will increase the pound force of the punch.

the second thing you can do is the snapping. or like making a fist at the end of the punch this will make the top speed happen at impact. also instead of the punch hitting and slowly stopping as it moves the body or head with the snapping the punch stops when it hits so all the force happens in that moment instead of over a longer period of time where the body slows down the fist. a good snap can stop the fist in probably as fast as .02 seconds compared to .1

the last thing that makes a diffrence is speed of the punch and this is one of the harder things to increase and one with the least amount of pound force increase per mph. You can do things like punching with weights or timing your self to punch faster, but if you havnt gotten good at punching properly with weight behind it your only looking at a few pound increase per mph increase.

[TacticalW]

the second thing you can do is the snapping. or like making a fist at the end of the punch this will make the top speed happen at impact. also instead of the punch hitting and slowly stopping as it moves the body or head with the snapping the punch stops when it hits so all the force happens in that moment instead of over a longer period of time where the body slows down the fist. a good snap can stop the fist in probably as fast as .02 seconds compared to .1

While the punch may be sharp it won't get you a KO that easily, you'd have to dish out a lot of those to get the same results one good solid hit would do. It's pretty seperate from traditional hard punches, not what I prefer to knock someone out with.