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In order to learn how to punch harder, you need to be willing to try new things. Plus, there is always room for improvement. Keep an open mind and pay attention to different strategies and techniques. As you become a better boxer, and your punching technique improves, your power also increases. These tips will help you improve your punching technique to come harder on your opponent.<br><br>
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Basic Theories You Need to Know to Increase Punching Power: • Speed Is Not Power: Remember that power is acceleration times mass. So, power is not just speed, you also need to have a weight or a force behind that speed. A fast punch won't hit your opponent hard unless you add some bodyweight behind it. • Move Your Body:
Just like Bruce Lee’s concept behind his renowned one-inch punch: moving your entire body 1 inch has a harder impact as compared to moving your arm 1 foot. Move your body to obtain maximum force (or weight) behind your punch. The trick behind this is to not focus on moving your body for a great distance but instead focus on moving it all at the same time.
Use Your Legs: The biggest muscles in your body always generate the most power when punching. People who punch by using their arms only never punch with real power. So, use your legs. • Stay in Your Range: You don’t land the strongest punch with your arms completely outstretched. Punches hit harder when they land a little shorter than your actual range of motion. Do not reach. Stay inside your range.
Use Different Angles: If you punch from different angles, you will get more boxing punching power, more opportunities, and even more damage to your opponent.
How to Improve Boxing Punching Power: • Start Slow: Many people focus too much on their speed that their shoulders and torso never end rotating in their blows. They practically throw fast yet underpowered punches. To solve this problem, learn to note how energy moves into your fist.
Take it slow. Pause at the start of a punch, and check your form and then throw the blow at half speed. Involve your body’s all muscles in the punch. Once you know how to add your body’s strength in your punches, then focus on your speed.
Cardiovascular Exercise: Condition your cardiovascular strength if you’re competing. It can make the difference between landing blows, harder and harder, hit after hit, and falling into exhaustion to make your hands move to land a single punch. Aerobic workout is mandatory for cardio strength. Incorporate it into strength training by doing circuit training. Do 30-60 minutes of rope jumping, jogging, swimming, and other intense cardio during the week to gain cardio strength.
To achieve a similar effect of doing a cardio challenge in the ring, perform a cardio workout first, then mimic the weariness you might feel in the ring by working on your strength training. • Note Your Distance: In a fight, you will have many opportunities to punch. If you are too far away or too close to your opponent, your punch will not pack enough power because it will lose its momentum because of overextending, or you just did not twist far enough.
It’s not about waiting for the other person to be at the correct distance, it’s also about correcting the distance between you and your opponent and learning the right distance for you depending on your reach. • Shadow Boxing: The best way to learn how to punch harder is to do intensive shadow boxing almost every day. You can use shadowbox to warm up before you train, but you must first do warm-up exercises before you shadowbox. Shadowbox before your spar or hit the heavy bag.
The real concept behind shadowboxing is to exercise the correct form and boost your punching speed. For more strength, you can also hold weights when you shadowbox. Shadowboxing can also be transformed into cardiovascular strength training by performing it while jogging.
