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New to boxing...some advice needed.
Hi everyone, my first post here! I joined this forum as it seemed like a good place to find knowledgeable people who might be able to help me out with a problem I’m having, here’s the backstory:
I’m British but live in the Philippines where around 6 months ago I started some boxing training 3 sometimes 4 times a week for around 2 hours each session. I say boxing the trainer is actually a muai thai fighter/trainer who’s training me, he started off teaching me some basics of kickboxing but then I asked him to just focus on boxing basics and then maybe later we can move onto the muai thai. We do around half an hour 45 mins of conditioning and stretching followed by some 3 to 5 minute rounds of mitt work and teaching me movement, footwork, combos and punching technique.
After the first few sessions I noticed that my hands became sore, particularly my knuckles. I put it down to never having punched something for any length of time and just kept on going, a few times during our sessions it would be really painful after a particular kind of connection and I’d have to stop for a second. We started putting some foam in my glove around the knuckles to see if that would help and it did a bit but there was still a lot of pain.
After 3 months of training I was up to 10 or so 4 minute rounds and generally my knuckles would be sore at the start but then ease off a bit after the adrenaline started pumping and they warmed up but later that day they would be sore and the next day, even after 3 or 4 days break they were still sore and clenching a fist would be painful. Recently I ‘ve had a break from training of 2 months as I went back to the UK but even after that long break from punching mitts (I was still doing the conditioning exercises) my hands still hurt when I clench a tight fist or pick up something like a heavy dumbbell or apply pressure to the knuckles from the palm side.
I’m keen to get back into the training and ideally I’d like to move onto sparring soon but as you can imagine I don’t want to permanently damage my hands if that can be avoided…
So a few questions for you guys!
Could my punch technique not be correct, causing stress or pressure to the wrong parts of my knuckle? (the pain that’s still lingering feels inside my knuckles and is a little worse at the smallest fingers end)
Do you think the trainer could be resisting or hitting my fists with the pads too hard and should I be worried that he’s not correcting my technique/changing wrapping or gloves (I’m using 12 ounce, I’d have to check the brand when I get home, I think twins and wrapping between the fingers with 1 inch wraps) to help with the problem?
Have other people had this problem? Does it just eventually just stop hurting after a few years? (I’ve checked the forums knuckle pain seems quite common…but still hurting after 2 months break?)
OK a bit of an essay for you but thanks in advance to anyone who can give me some tips or advice!
All the best, Chris.
I’m British but live in the Philippines where around 6 months ago I started some boxing training 3 sometimes 4 times a week for around 2 hours each session. I say boxing the trainer is actually a muai thai fighter/trainer who’s training me, he started off teaching me some basics of kickboxing but then I asked him to just focus on boxing basics and then maybe later we can move onto the muai thai. We do around half an hour 45 mins of conditioning and stretching followed by some 3 to 5 minute rounds of mitt work and teaching me movement, footwork, combos and punching technique.
After the first few sessions I noticed that my hands became sore, particularly my knuckles. I put it down to never having punched something for any length of time and just kept on going, a few times during our sessions it would be really painful after a particular kind of connection and I’d have to stop for a second. We started putting some foam in my glove around the knuckles to see if that would help and it did a bit but there was still a lot of pain.
After 3 months of training I was up to 10 or so 4 minute rounds and generally my knuckles would be sore at the start but then ease off a bit after the adrenaline started pumping and they warmed up but later that day they would be sore and the next day, even after 3 or 4 days break they were still sore and clenching a fist would be painful. Recently I ‘ve had a break from training of 2 months as I went back to the UK but even after that long break from punching mitts (I was still doing the conditioning exercises) my hands still hurt when I clench a tight fist or pick up something like a heavy dumbbell or apply pressure to the knuckles from the palm side.
I’m keen to get back into the training and ideally I’d like to move onto sparring soon but as you can imagine I don’t want to permanently damage my hands if that can be avoided…
So a few questions for you guys!
Could my punch technique not be correct, causing stress or pressure to the wrong parts of my knuckle? (the pain that’s still lingering feels inside my knuckles and is a little worse at the smallest fingers end)
Do you think the trainer could be resisting or hitting my fists with the pads too hard and should I be worried that he’s not correcting my technique/changing wrapping or gloves (I’m using 12 ounce, I’d have to check the brand when I get home, I think twins and wrapping between the fingers with 1 inch wraps) to help with the problem?
Have other people had this problem? Does it just eventually just stop hurting after a few years? (I’ve checked the forums knuckle pain seems quite common…but still hurting after 2 months break?)
OK a bit of an essay for you but thanks in advance to anyone who can give me some tips or advice!
All the best, Chris.
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