The best way to increase punching power..

[Del Coqui]

punching power is god given to the extent that everyone has a limit, like in everything else. but there are ways to improve it until u reach your limit.

first step should be technique, shadowbox. just get your movements down. then take it to the heavybag, still focus on turning and pivoting. make sure u put all of your weight into the punch. feet, hips and shoulders are the key. now that u have a target also make sure u get the right extension. if u are a short guy throw short punches. if u are a tall guy drop that long right hand on your oponent, practice getting proper extension.

then let loose on the bag. hit HARD and u will build the muscle mass needed. no reason to touch weights, physical strenght will make u a heavy hitter but wont produce the explosive power u are most likely after.

final step is working on your skills, double end bag, pads and sparring. timing and accuracy creates knockouts more so than power. its all about nailing the right spot at the right time.

agreed in everything but the weights, with weights if you know what your doing it can be a positive.

[AC111]

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.

ok well i quickly read through that. Not exactly sure what your talking about but thats what people are basically saying about being God-given. How you were made etc...a degree there a degree here, muscle structure, arm length all these things.......

[Spartacus Sully]

if you menatally try to punch harder you wont.....if you mentally try to punch harder ever day for a year you wont. if for the rest of your life you keep trying to punch harder harder and harder taking small steps you will never improve just like if when your 10 years old running the mile in school thats the fastest you will ever be able to run a mile. or what you can bench now is the best that you will ever be able to do no matter how much rest youve had before or how hard you try.

just face it what you do today you will never be able to do better no matter how hard you try. its just destiny

or i could be wrong......

[Kinetic Linking]

wait are you ******ed or was that a joke.

[hemichromis]

if you menatally try to punch harder you wont.....if you mentally try to punch harder ever day for a year you wont. if for the rest of your life you keep trying to punch harder harder and harder taking small steps you will never improve just like if when your 10 years old running the mile in school thats the fastest you will ever be able to run a mile. or what you can bench now is the best that you will ever be able to do no matter how much rest youve had before or how hard you try.

just face it what you do today you will never be able to do better no matter how hard you try. its just destiny

or i could be wrong......

second option

[Spartacus Sully]

must be the hypoxia asthma training

[Spartacus Sully]

no but seriously in like 2nd grade my i say to my teacher i don't want to do my homework and she said that's fine you can do anything you want but sometimes there are sacrifices like a good grade. i took that to heart all you need to do is sacrifice some of you time and you can do anything.

[Danny_123]

I've just started a self-made program for increasing punching power, i'll stick to it over summer and let you guys know if i actually see any results.
If not then i'll have wasted my time and not yours

[LVBoxer1]

Im not sure 100% this helps, but ive been attatching ten pound weight wraps to my hands, and throw 3 sets of combos, such as 3 combo, 2 combo, ect. with the gloves to. And then i realize when I throw punches without gloves, it feels like i can cut the air.

[FeFist]

To a degree it's natural, if it was something that could be trained you wouldn't have light handed boxers who actually put in a lot of training. I think muscle formation and bone density allows them to throw punches a certain way.

That being said, I think technique has a lot to do with it aswell. Some people who hit soft don't hit correctly. My dad always told me that when he was boxing he spent a lot of his time on the bag practising how to hit hard and efficiently which is correct if you look at the science behind it a lot of it is technique it's how your weight transfers through your body.