How to increse your punching power

[USSR_UZBEKISTAN]

Hey fellas
Whats the best way to increase your punching power?

[buff_mike10]

Hit the heavy bag, thats the best way to increase power.

[PunchDrunk]

Depends on the individual. If your technique is bad, that's the obvious thing you want to improve. This is not an easy place to explain that, since a trainer would have to see you specifically, to see what areas of your technique you need to improve. Other than that, a strength training and plyometrics program could help your punching power.

[ricecrispi]

Depends on what you need to work on. Trainer can help on that. There are people with power but no snap, snap and power, and guys who are bazookas. It could be a speed problem, snap problem, power problem, footwork problem, or form. It takes a trainer to decide what punchs need to be worked on and how.

A few pointers.

Use the legs, hips and body a bit more. Focus on keeping your current form. You don't want to throw your body, you want to use more of the body in how you already throw your punchs. Do this in front of the mirror and try doing it slowly 50% speed and concentrate.

On the heavy bag don't push the bag, pierce it. You want to rip a hole in it, not swing it around.
Focus power from balls of your feet all the way past your fist. Yes, past the fist by an inch.

Use more of the lower body. Cross and uppercuts start from the feet up. Hook uses more a little more waist and legs. Remember proper form is important.

Focus on the footwork and range of power in a punch. You need to be at the right position to throw the strongest punch. Being out of postion or range can weaken your punch.


I had a 195 lb police officer once you had 18 guns and huge legs and threw a ***** slap uppercut. Mine was 10x hard than his and I was only 130 lbs at the time. I could never fix it even though he had the form down so it's very complicated. He never had any snap in his punch but they had power. 2-3 months and he never fixed it before he quit and he already had training from the police.

My left uppercut was not as close in power as might right and I nevered fixed that.

Workouts. do some high speed high-stepping jump roping. The knees go 90 degrees. 10 mins replacement over regular jump roping.

Lunge squats with medical ball over your head. As many as you like and concentrate and your legs when you go up.

Get into runners squat and push against a wall for 5 mins. Repeats 3x.

cicular medicine ball pass. Have someone stand behind you, face opposite direction, pass the ball left to right/ right to left/ and under legs over the head.

[Ricomania77]

Depends on what you need to work on. Trainer can help on that. There are people with power but no snap, snap and power, and guys who are bazookas. It could be a speed problem, snap problem, power problem, footwork problem, or form. It takes a trainer to decide what punchs need to be worked on and how.

A few pointers.

Use the legs, hips and body a bit more. Focus on keeping your current form. You don't want to throw your body, you want to use more of the body in how you already throw your punchs. Do this in front of the mirror and try doing it slowly 50% speed and concentrate.

On the heavy bag don't push the bag, pierce it. You want to rip a hole in it, not swing it around.
Focus power from balls of your feet all the way past your fist. Yes, past the fist by an inch.

Use more of the lower body. Cross and uppercuts start from the feet up. Hook uses more a little more waist and legs. Remember proper form is important.

Focus on the footwork and range of power in a punch. You need to be at the right position to throw the strongest punch. Being out of postion or range can weaken your punch.


I had a 195 lb police officer once you had 18 guns and huge legs and threw a ***** slap uppercut. Mine was 10x hard than his and I was only 130 lbs at the time. I could never fix it even though he had the form down so it's very complicated. He never had any snap in his punch but they had power. 2-3 months and he never fixed it before he quit and he already had training from the police.

My left uppercut was not as close in power as might right and I nevered fixed that.

Workouts. do some high speed high-stepping jump roping. The knees go 90 degrees. 10 mins replacement over regular jump roping.

Lunge squats with medical ball over your head. As many as you like and concentrate and your legs when you go up.

Get into runners squat and push against a wall for 5 mins. Repeats 3x.

cicular medicine ball pass. Have someone stand behind you, face opposite direction, pass the ball left to right/ right to left/ and under legs over the head.

good stuff man.
I have a question, I was a former football player. Is any of my 'football strength' going to translate into punching power (bench, incline, squats...)? just wondering that's all

[PunchDrunk]

good stuff man.
I have a question, I was a former football player. Is any of my 'football strength' going to translate into punching power (bench, incline, squats...)? just wondering that's all

They will, if you achieve the proper technique, certainly. Power is power, but technique is needed to transfer that power.

[Hunna]

Depends on what you need to work on. Trainer can help on that. There are people with power but no snap, snap and power, and guys who are bazookas. It could be a speed problem, snap problem, power problem, footwork problem, or form. It takes a trainer to decide what punchs need to be worked on and how.

A few pointers.

Use the legs, hips and body a bit more. Focus on keeping your current form. You don't want to throw your body, you want to use more of the body in how you already throw your punchs. Do this in front of the mirror and try doing it slowly 50% speed and concentrate.

On the heavy bag don't push the bag, pierce it. You want to rip a hole in it, not swing it around.
Focus power from balls of your feet all the way past your fist. Yes, past the fist by an inch.

Use more of the lower body. Cross and uppercuts start from the feet up. Hook uses more a little more waist and legs. Remember proper form is important.

Focus on the footwork and range of power in a punch. You need to be at the right position to throw the strongest punch. Being out of postion or range can weaken your punch.


I had a 195 lb police officer once you had 18 guns and huge legs and threw a ***** slap uppercut. Mine was 10x hard than his and I was only 130 lbs at the time. I could never fix it even though he had the form down so it's very complicated. He never had any snap in his punch but they had power. 2-3 months and he never fixed it before he quit and he already had training from the police.

My left uppercut was not as close in power as might right and I nevered fixed that.

Workouts. do some high speed high-stepping jump roping. The knees go 90 degrees. 10 mins replacement over regular jump roping.

Lunge squats with medical ball over your head. As many as you like and concentrate and your legs when you go up.

Get into runners squat and push against a wall for 5 mins. Repeats 3x.

cicular medicine ball pass. Have someone stand behind you, face opposite direction, pass the ball left to right/ right to left/ and under legs over the head.

Good tips bro, just got a query about piercing or pushing the bag. guys like George foreman, Tuaman and big heavy punchers in general cant help launching the bag in a push like fashion, becos they are so big, less mobile and little slower to recoil the punch.

[Slipx]

George foreman, Tuaman and big heavy punchers in general cant help launching the bag in a push like fashion, becos they are so big, less mobile and little slower to recoil the punch.

Those guys do that to the bag because they can squat 500+ pounds. When you have serious leg strength for your weight/size, you can just drop mean bombs..it's because all power punches start in the lower body..

when i was a little kid i always jumped on this trampoline we had ,...for years...i think thats why i have a pretty good punch because i developed strong lower body early in life

then i advanced to football etc doing squats so that plays a large part in my boxing im sure

[USSR_UZBEKISTAN]

What about phisicly, like pushups or chinups wil it help?

[ricecrispi]

Remember, physical parts is not as important as the mental portion and technique. You aint got the last two, the first means squat. The stronger you are helps but you want to be (strong+fast)=explosive

Do push ups everyday. If you are serious twice a day. Ideal, set of 75-100 reps 3-4 sets or 500 of them total. mix them up at the last 10 with fast explosive pushups, very slow ones, or jumping two hand or one handed. Develops larger range of power.

Chinups. You want to reach 10-15 reps for for 5 sets. When you reach this you reach peak power to weight ratio. If you cant you need to loose weight or get stronger.
Situps do as many till you get good definition
There are so many more things but I believe in mastering the simple stuff first then moving to the next level.

the piercing vs. push idea is like the skin is superficial, you want to hurt past it and cut the guy. You remember Klitskho and Lewis fight. Both guys are strong but klitskho punchs are strong but slow, they hurt but never cut Lewis. Lewis threw one fast and hard right and that open that cut.