I've been looking into using a heavy bag for fitness training, something new to break the boredom and to get a good workout. I've been doing a lot of reading in the past few days about equipment and technique and so forth. (In particular, there seems to be a lot of good info at dub dub dub boxing-4-fitness dot com.
I believe I understand the proper way to throw the basic punches and how to move around the bag. I plan on starting out slowly. I also understand I need to wrap my hands properly and use gloves. But I have a few questions I cannot find answers to. Here they are:
- What weight bag should I get? It seems 80-100 pounds seems right. What is the real difference in getting one weight vs. another?
- How do I know what size gloves to get? I've read that glove fit is important, but I do not see how to figure out what size to order.
- Speaking of gloves... I don't want to spend a ton of money on gloves, but I do want a decent pair. I could really use some suggestions on what would be a good starter pair without spending too much money.
- As far as working out with the bag, it seems that people suggest doing it in "rounds" as a fight, almost. So I assume I'd do something like 3 minutes on, 1 minute off, or something like that. I'd like to do a 30 minute workout to start with, so any suggestions on how to best do this would be great.
Happy to have any tips or comments, and if you think I have missed something please let me know.
Thanks!
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