Punch resistance training.

[tcbender]

Also having strong legs and being on balance helps a lot. If you are flat footed, off balance, or legs spread too far apart you will take more of the blunt force from the punch.

[Rockin']

Also having strong legs and being on balance helps a lot. If you are flat footed, off balance, or legs spread too far apart you will take more of the blunt force from the punch.

Legs are hugely important to whether you stand or fall. Good call...…..Rockin'

[Armchairhero]

Heavy rack pulls, from knee level for thickening the traps, you can build up to some huge poundages with these.

Then the obvious high rep neck work which has already been mentioned, you could most probably do these pretty frequently and add a good inch or two to your neck.

[OctoberRed]

Heavy rack pulls, from knee level for thickening the traps, you can build up to some huge poundages with these.

Then the obvious high rep neck work which has already been mentioned, you could most probably do these pretty frequently and add a good inch or two to your neck.

Ive seen bodybuilders working some of these.

[Armchairhero]

I was a good level bodybuilder in my 20’s, nothing will build traps and neck like the pull/weighted stretch you get off rack pulls, even someone relatively light can have a good few hundred pound on the bar

[OctoberRed]

I was a good level bodybuilder in my 20’s, nothing will build traps and neck like the pull/weighted stretch you get off rack pulls, even someone relatively light can have a good few hundred pound on the bar

So was I. Once I hit mid-30s, with work everything else I just didn't have the time to keep up.

[Armchairhero]

I was injury prone past 25, 14 to 25 I was indestructible.

Happy just to be healthy and stay in relatively good shape nowadays, although I’d struggle to lift my old warm up weights never mind proper sets.

That’s why I get so annoyed when I see fat boxers/MMA fighters. When working men in late 30’s can stay in shape and “professionals” show up with love handles & ****

[OctoberRed]

I was injury prone past 25, 14 to 25 I was indestructible.

Happy just to be healthy and stay in relatively good shape nowadays, although I’d struggle to lift my old warm up weights never mind proper sets.

That’s why I get so annoyed when I see fat boxers/MMA fighters. When working men in late 30’s can stay in shape and “professionals” show up with love handles & ****

I started to fall apart after 35. Injury and injury. Nothing too serious luckily.

[GelfSara]

Is there a way to train yourself to take a punch better, like building your neck muscles? Or is punch resistance just something you either have or you don't?

You can certainly train your neck; a MedX (or other brand of) neck machine is one way: https://********/Y01FEON7Y6E?t=15m57s

You can also train the muscles of your jaw, although I don't know of any commercial device for doing so; I imagine one could use manual resistance; large amounts of chewing gum, spring-loaded equipment one builds oneself, rubber balls, etc.

[OctoberRed]

You can certainly train your neck; a MedX (or other brand of) neck machine is one way: https://********/Y01FEON7Y6E?t=15m57s

You can also train the muscles of your jaw, although I don't know of any commercial device for doing so; I imagine one could use manual resistance; large amounts of chewing gum, spring-loaded equipment one builds oneself, rubber balls, etc.

I do the exercise with the chain and the 10 pound weight on it. Mayweather tends to use them.