whatsup, I was wondering what are some good thing to build your stomach up, i can take headshots but i get my breath knocked out real easy. i do sit-ups and things like that, is there anything else you would recomend.
Printable View
whatsup, I was wondering what are some good thing to build your stomach up, i can take headshots but i get my breath knocked out real easy. i do sit-ups and things like that, is there anything else you would recomend.
Here's my advise:
punch your opponent when he's coming in,
and cover up more.
Look man.. You only get the 'breath knocked out of you' when your hit in the stomach bag, which is just below the chest. You don't get the breath knocked out of you when your hit in the stomach muscles, which are just above the waist.
So, sit-ups and shit will keep the stomach muscles firm, and this is good. But if you want to prevent yourself being winded, then you need to look at your own boxing both offensively and defensively. When people work the body in boxing they have to sacrifice taking some head shots too, so you shouldn't let anybody have free range body shots on you - hit them in the head man, HARD. Also, a good guard should protect not just the head with your gloves but also the upper stomach bag area with your elbows - or be able to hover downwards naturally when required.
More to consider.. If you are too upright it makes it easier for your opponent to hit you in the stomach bag area and wind you, whereas if you crouch more it leaves your body that bit more protected.
Situps are a good start. Next, do situps with a medicine ball. I do 50 reps when I'm lazy. When I'm doing a hard workout, I do 100. My goal is to get up to 200. Leg raises tone the lower portion of your abs. When you do the leg raises, try to keep your legs as straight as possible. Also, do them with your hands behind your head (people put them at their side, but that gives better leverage and makes it easier. It's more challenging when they're behind your head). Another good exercise, doing "planks". Go into pushup position, but put your elbows to the floor. Get as low to the gound as possible, and stay on your toes (both feet to the ground). Do this for 1-2 minutes. Lastly, trunk twists while holding a medicine ball. Focus on turning at the stomach, not with the arms.
Those are exercises you can do alone, these you can do with a partner. First, get into situp position, then have your partner kneel onto one knee over you; with their shin across you abs. Have them slowly press more and more weight onto you, until they've got as much weight as they can give (or you can handle). These, I like to do timed. 30 second hard intervals work well. Next is a variant of leg raises. Lay with your back down, with your partner standing up at your head, facing you. Grab their legs with boths hands for leverage (you'll need it). Now do a leg raise. The partner will push your leg down and to the left, then to the right, then to the center. The object is for your legs to go through a sudden change of motion. Lastly, this one will be closest to taking a body shot. Lay down in situp position. For a period of time (1 minute), have your partner drive a medicine ball into your abs. Next, lay on one side and have them drive that medicine ball into one side. Then switch.
Of course, don't do all of these at the same time. Try to do only one to work upper abs, one to work lower, etc. All of these are listed so that you have good variation in your ab-work rountine. I hope I've been able to help you.
Edit: And DD brings up probably the best point of all. To add to that, make sure that you control your breathing. Know what your entire body is doing at all times, that includes your breathing. You may be inhaling when you see a punch coming, which is bad. I know that when I get faked out, I exhale on the fake, then start to breath in. That's pretty bad, since if a body punch is coming after the fake, I'm more likely to get the wind knocked out of me. It's easier to get the wind knocked out of you when you're inhaling.
wow, i never thought of that and i think you just solved my problemQuote:
You may be inhaling when you see a punch coming, which is bad.
guys- major thanks for the help
Drink lots of beer mate Lots ;DNo just kidding.This is very good advise that these guys gave you.You work your abs and cover up thight.You maybe got to work on coverage
What I do for my abs is, I do 200 curl ups, 200 sit ups the I hang myself upside down on my chin up bar and do 50 sit ups upside down. Trust me you will be tired out
what helped me a lot was this. every time when i would do sit ups, my brother would stand next to me, and every time when i'm in the declined position (low that is), he would hit my abs with a punching shield if u know what that is. it will make your abs harder and more durable(?).
Another good thing is to do is leg lifts. You lay flat on your back and lift just your legs 3 in off the ground and hold it there. Tust me it gets very hard after awhile. Also you can lie on your back and when you lift you legs up have a friend or someone push you feet down to the ground then lift your feet back up. Keep doing this after 20- 30 times.
and your 14?Quote:
Originally Posted by BBOXER14
you gotta weight about 50kg!
Ya Im 14 and I weigh 115lb. What do think its to hard to believe?
well its just hardcore excersizes is all.Quote:
Originally Posted by BBOXER14
chinup bars wouldnt hold my kind of weight for a start, and even if i had abs of steel, trying to lift 200lb from inverted situps...
wanna build up your stomach eh? do the 15 minute abs work out every second day untill you build up to be able to do it everyday.
just do the following
-situps to the left for 1 minute
-situps to the right for 1 minute
-leg raises for 1 minute
-lay on your back and mack the motion of climbing stairs with you legs for 1 minute
-repeat theys for excersis 3 times one after another till you get to 12 minutes(keep in mind that you must not stop just keep going no matter how much it hurts)
-for one more minute do normal situps
-now for the last 2 minutes either get in a push up position with your elbows on the ground and hold you self there or do the para shout potition which is much harder and hold that for 2 minutes.
(parachute postion is when u lay on your back and lift up both your upper body and legs a few inches off the ground at the same time)
thats what ive been doing and body shots can't hurt me
enjoy
may be the inverted situps but you can expect to get 400+ crunches out in a session, maybe not straight off but often in bouts of 20/25.Quote:
Originally Posted by alex w
25 curl ups
25 cross over crunch to your left
25 cross over crunch to your right
25 crunches
100 easy.
lots of variations.
unless somone punches youin the solar plexus or the ribs, in which case your screwed like the rest of us!Quote:
Originally Posted by kidstates
Thats true, but at least i won't keel over or get the wind knocked out me from a hit to the stomachQuote:
Originally Posted by alex w
you wont get very far just doing that u need to be eating the right kind of food and drinking the right kind of drink
yeah, it can hardly do ya damage can it:DQuote:
Originally Posted by kidstates
plus it looks damn good for the ladies ;)
Ya it sounds hardcore but when you weigh as much as I do and have been doing it for a while, it doesnt seem so hardcore
yeah, when i first started all this stuff i used to think 15 pressups was a hard thing to do.
i now do 50 off the mark with no problems, i average on about 400 per session in the warm up and the circuits at the end
So I'm guess you have a bulging six pack? Well thats what I have, is a bulging six pack (only cause im skinny and strong)
dude why the hell would i have a bluging 6pac from pressups?Quote:
Originally Posted by BBOXER14
Press ups you use some of your stomache muscles. Unless I'm thinking of something totaly different.
shit your american arent you.Quote:
Originally Posted by BBOXER14
in england we call push ups pressups.
where you use your chest and arms to press your body up, then lower it doen again
OK I get it. Yes I'm American. OK earlier in the post you said that you do 400 pushups? If thats true, thats awsome. I can do like 50, then pass-out
i cant do 400 in a row.Quote:
Originally Posted by BBOXER14
i weight 15 stone ish, theres no way i can do 400 in a row.
the most ive ever done was 150 in a competition, my triceps just plain old cramped up and died on me, i stopped at 150 cause it was a nice number ;)
Man I'd give anything to be able to do just a 100. While I'm doing 50 and passing out, your doing 150.
but im 17 man.Quote:
Originally Posted by BBOXER14
when i was your age i couldnt do 20 pressups without some majour problems.
i tried doing 15 per night 3 times, then the next week added 5, then the week after that another 5.
it all builds up at the end of the day
So at the end of every week, I should add 5 pushups? Are push ups on your kuckles harder then one on your hands?
nope, not atall man, all they do is numb them, but i cant feel anything in my hand anywhoQuote:
Originally Posted by BBOXER14
Ya you told me, that you can hold a lighter or something under them for like 10 seconds, then you feel it. Thats awsome. Is that from doing pushups on your knuckles?
partially, but on concrete flooringQuote:
Originally Posted by BBOXER14
its also from an accident i had when i was younger with petrol... bit scarred :D
then its from hitting bags with no gloves, cuts your hands right up, then when the new stuff grows you cant feel it
i dont reccoment it
But it must be awsome to have no feeling in your hands. That would be awsome. Why dont you recommend it?
cause it looks like shit, very very bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by BBOXER14
girls like to hold hands and stuff. they dont want to be holding some massive mass of scars etc!
my knuckes are also huge, ive shattered them like 5 times now and theyve reformed bigger!
I see. Yup your right girls like to hold hands, but I thought they digg scars ;D. Im just messing
haha ive got a scar on my ass from fallign on an axe during a staged combat fight (i work as a stage combatant placed in medieval time periods) haha and chicks dont really dig it......
Thats nice to know lol. Good one :lol:
no its really not nice!Quote:
Originally Posted by BBOXER14
ya it kept me outta the ring and outta the fighting show for two weeks... it was quite bad
got to suck, i hate missing boxing.
thats why i got so messed up, i broke my hands and tried to carry on so soon, never gave it a chance to heal properly so it got worse till i had to stop for ages
I was being sarcasticQuote:
Originally Posted by alex w