HELP Hand hurts every single time I hit the mitts

[mushahadeen]

These sort of pains are natural when you box. After you have boxed for many years like me, when you get my age, your hands are never the same.

I have constant wrist pain and hand pain, there's nothing I can do. I basically just ice my wrist after workouts and maybe take an ibuprofen for the swelling once in a while.

It's something that will never go away and typing constantly at work makes it 10X worse. I wear like a wrist brace at work because it keeps my wrist straight and helps out a lot.

Part of boxing, something you have to deal with. Like I said, just make sure you wrap your hands correctly and use 16oz gloves. You should really not use 10oz or 12oz gloves for anything other than an actual fight. Especially when hitting the mitts or heavy bag, look at videos of the pro's, they almost always have on 16oz winning gloves because they don't want to injure themselves.

My trainer lent me a pair of 14 oz gloves. The pain was tolerable. I am sure with rest and 16 oz gloves that pretty much solves the problem.

Thanks.

[hugh grant]

Those bag "mitts" aren't suggested for use on the heavybags. They are commonly seen being used on punch mitts and double end bags, even shadowboxing.


I see almost no pro boxers use bag mitts on the heavybag. They always use either 8oz-10oz pro fight gloves, 10oz-12oz amateur competition gloves, 10oz-16oz super bag gloves, and most commonly, 14oz-18oz training/sparring gloves.

I should sue then, as on the covering it says Leather punch bag mitts, so you just assume they are for the heavy bag. No wonder i damaged my hand on the first session. I was putting full force into the punches though and was hitting for too long.

The signs were there that i was going to hurt myself. I think i will still use them but not hit the bag as hard as i can and make sure perfect form.