The best way to increase punching power..

[latiger12]

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.

Its all in the hips and punching with the big muscles in your back and legs. Practice Practice Practice

[Verstyle]

Punching power is not God-given

I hate it so much when you hear people say punching power is god given. Jack Dempsey wrote in his book, quite clearly, boxers are made, not born. It's obvious why, punching power derives from physics, it cannot break the law of physics. Some people may be naturally more capable of throwing big punches just by the luck of how they naturally throw their punches. However, ANYBODY can feasibly learn how to throw powerful punches because it's all down to physics.

Power = mass x velocity.

To increase mass, without adding body weight, you step into your punches more, your throw your weight in more and you punch through, not at, the target.

To increase velocity you build muscles which aid this, this doesn't mean weight lifting, it means long hours on the punch bag etc. which builds the exact muscles you need.

It's all down to technique.

A tall slim guy can punch as hard as a shorter stocky guy, the stockier guy has mass, the taller guy should have leverage. Look at Tommy Hearns for example, heavy hitter even when he was a Welterweight.

Bigger guys do not always hit harder, I like using Mike Tyson as a good example because nobody disagrees that he hit hard. Mike Tyson was a big guy, fought at roughly 218 lbs. Yet when he fought people who were 240 or 250 lbs he still hit harder! Watch Tyson's punches, he would throw his entire body into them.

You look at your body shape and you break it down to find the best technique. The most simple way to increase power which people tend to ignore is using your legs more, and step in/punch through.

However, remember, just as physics enables us to all have heavy punching power, it does cap us. At my current weight of 150lbs, I could never hit harder than Mike Tyson, simply, again, down to Physics.

Well put.............

[Spacey1991]

Technique, and hitting the heavy bag helps.

[potatoes]

Well put.............

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?

[Chr0nic]

obviously your punching power is god-given to a certain degree
some people are just bigger/faster etc than others, it's just how it is

[JayCoe]

George Foreman was a very strong individual who was very good at boxing, much of his technique relying on heavy punches. If you find an individual who meets his muscle mass and is as good as him who practices heavy punches as much as he did, then you can find somebody who can punch like him. Comparing the world of boxing to the elite heavyweights of all time is ******. They are who they are because they were excellent at boxing, so comparing a man of similar build but who lacks the technique of Foreman, is pointless and...Hogwash.

And no, the formula is still correct. The one your citing is a formula pulled out of a generic textbook from the school days.

[Chr0nic]

George Foreman was a very strong individual who was very good at boxing, much of his technique relying on heavy punches. If you find an individual who meets his muscle mass and is as good as him who practices heavy punches as much as he did, then you can find somebody who can punch like him. Comparing the world of boxing to the elite heavyweights of all time is ******. They are who they are because they were excellent at boxing, so comparing a man of similar build but who lacks the technique of Foreman, is pointless and...Hogwash.

And no, the formula is still correct. The one your citing is a formula pulled out of a generic textbook from the school days.

so you dont believe in genetics at all?

[potatoes]

so you dont believe in genetics at all?

It isn't a question of belief, it is a matter of facts and reality. The traditions of boxing tell us that punchers are born and knockout artists are made. As yet there is no evidence to the contrary. Anybody can spew out a lot of scientific nonsense but nobody has figured out how to transform a featherfist into a puncher.

[ellwise69]

We got a fight!!! I got 2-2.

[Pacmanjay]

Punching power is not God-given

I hate it so much when you hear people say punching power is god given. Jack Dempsey wrote in his book, quite clearly, boxers are made, not born. It's obvious why, punching power derives from physics, it cannot break the law of physics. Some people may be naturally more capable of throwing big punches just by the luck of how they naturally throw their punches. However, ANYBODY can feasibly learn how to throw powerful punches because it's all down to physics.

Power = mass x velocity.

To increase mass, without adding body weight, you step into your punches more, your throw your weight in more and you punch through, not at, the target.

To increase velocity you build muscles which aid this, this doesn't mean weight lifting, it means long hours on the punch bag etc. which builds the exact muscles you need.

It's all down to technique.

A tall slim guy can punch as hard as a shorter stocky guy, the stockier guy has mass, the taller guy should have leverage. Look at Tommy Hearns for example, heavy hitter even when he was a Welterweight.

Bigger guys do not always hit harder, I like using Mike Tyson as a good example because nobody disagrees that he hit hard. Mike Tyson was a big guy, fought at roughly 218 lbs. Yet when he fought people who were 240 or 250 lbs he still hit harder! Watch Tyson's punches, he would throw his entire body into them.

You look at your body shape and you break it down to find the best technique. The most simple way to increase power which people tend to ignore is using your legs more, and step in/punch through.

However, remember, just as physics enables us to all have heavy punching power, it does cap us. At my current weight of 150lbs, I could never hit harder than Mike Tyson, simply, again, down to Physics.

lol, wut a ******ed ***ing post, not even going to reply