| Re: The muscles used with boxing?
To punch hard the power starts off from your legs (quads mainly), really picks up through the hips then is transferred through the upper body and arms. Best really to think of the arms as the lever with which you make contact. That said if your arms are weak then they will be the weak link in the chain that you don't want.
Boxing training is focused a great deal on footwork and balance. You will not hit hard if you are off balance no matter how muscular you are. Top level boxers do do a significant amount of weight training even in the lighter weights althugh it is highly periodized and has to worked out by someone who knows what they're doing. Dr Squat (Fred Hatfield) suggests that if you want to hit harder then you have to make your legs stronger. |