How to increse your punching power

[drag0n_]

If you want to know how to get your body behind your punches - i'd watch Naz in his prime...

[ricecrispi]

I'd still say that Gatti's 15 extra pounds at fight time is a factor in that department.

FORSURE IT WILL! Gatti will use it because he's a power puncher and that 15 pounds is like give him extra bullets in a gun fight. Gatti will use that 15 pounds but I bet he couldn't make use of 50 pounds.

My main point it is a balance of speed and power (Force = work / time). Not everyone can use that extra 15 pounds. Example Mosley. After awhile the weight didn't help him, he couldn't apply it correctly with his hand speed to get knockout punches, even though he thought he could. IMHO opinion, it made him slower, alot slower and that was Mosley's edge.


Naz is the worse example!! That guy threw punch that left him wideopen and when a good fighter faced him he got dissected like a frog in Bio lab.

[PunchDrunk]

FORSURE IT WILL! Gatti will use it because he's a power puncher and that 15 pounds is like give him extra bullets in a gun fight. Gatti will use that 15 pounds but I bet he couldn't make use of 50 pounds.

My main point it is a balance of speed and power (Force = work / time). Not everyone can use that extra 15 pounds. Example Mosley. After awhile the weight didn't help him, he couldn't apply it correctly with his hand speed to get knockout punches, even though he thought he could. IMHO opinion, it made him slower, alot slower and that was Mosley's edge.


Naz is the worse example!! That guy threw punch that left him wideopen and when a good fighter faced him he got dissected like a frog in Bio lab.

Not quite agreed on Mosley. You have to realize Mosley went up in weight A LOT, but so did his opponents. There's a big difference between fighting a guy weighing 140, being 155 yourself (Gatti-Mayweather), and being a blown up lightweight fighting in the 154 pound division. Mosley's not supposed to be that big, his power is at lower weights. If he had stayed at lightweight, or only gone up to 140, he probably would have been an undefeated legend by now.

And Gatti sure could make use of 50 extra pounds if he's still fighting a guy weighing 140.

[EXIGE]

For the original question: look up some stuff on plyometrics, it trains speed and power quite simply. I know it has been mentioned before, but i thought id repeat it cos not that much emphasis was put on it.

[ricecrispi]

If you are not that strong in general, I suggest build some natural power before going into pylometrics. It will be a produce an larger initial increase in punching power than pylometrics (speed + power). In the end pylometrics is the best for boxing. I still believe boxing is 80% mental and 20% physical and prefer building punching power though boxing training.

Plyometric info if you like.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...35162?v=glance
High-Powered Plyometrics by James C. Radcliffe, Robert C. Farentinos

I skimmed thru this once. I already was doing 15-25 of the excercises in there. The rest are to time consuming or have little potential.

http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/plymo.htm

Very similiar program to what i did but lacks a few excercises. Something you can do everyday if you haven't
http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/plyometrics.html