Workouts on off-days?

[nutrick]

i plan on going to the boxing gym on tuesdays and thursdays, and i'm wondering what exercises i should do on the off-days.

[donnydarkoIRL]

I find it highly beneficial to keep my fitness training seperate from my boxing training.

I f you improve your anaerobic and aerobic fitness away from the boxing gym, you will have more time in the gym to work on actual boxing skill.

[Douglas]

i plan on going to the boxing gym on tuesdays and thursdays, and i'm wondering what exercises i should do on the off-days.

Running, perhaps weightlifting, and if you don't do them in boxing training, pushups, sittups, leg-lifts, and you can still shadowbox from time to time as well.

[Bomp]

Definitely shadow box, do the stuff you learned in the gym over and over.

[Sharla]

I think all the suggestions here are pretty good. I think though we might have more hope of giving you good ideas if we can get some more info from you.

What you're aiming for? Boxing for fun or fitness or to compete one day or?

What do you want to get out of your training as a whole? Some guys who just want big muscles rather than the best overall fitness will have different training plans.


How much time do you have?

How old are you? Any things you can't do because of cost or injury etc?

[nutrick]

I think all the suggestions here are pretty good. I think though we might have more hope of giving you good ideas if we can get some more info from you.

What you're aiming for? Boxing for fun or fitness or to compete one day or?

What do you want to get out of your training as a whole? Some guys who just want big muscles rather than the best overall fitness will have different training plans.


How much time do you have?

How old are you? Any things you can't do because of cost or injury
etc?

I'm aiming to compete in the summer and improve on overall fitness. I have probably a lot of time on off days around 2-4 hours that i can devote to working out. and I'm 16

[Sharla]

Maybe you can split the off day workouts into 2 shorter ones. Then you can maybe get some cardio work in - perhaps running 2 min intervals as fast as you can with a timed break and repeat it so the workout mimics the type of intensity you'll see when you compete.

Then you can include some shadow boxing and maybe light weights or bodyweight exercises. You might find you do shadow boxing after a brief warm up and finish with your weights/body weight exercises perhaps?

Making sure you work all balancing muscle groups eg don't do too many push ups without working your back with chin ups etc also.

If you have a floor to cieling ball or something at home that would be good too. There's a tennis ball one some people make in some old Ask the Trainer threads which looks good.

That's my input anyway but now you've given us more info I'm sure you'll get a few more replies.

How much you get into the weights or body weight exercises will also depend on how much of that sort of thing you do in your boxing training too. You don't want to overdo it. You might put some balance work in like a wobble board or something as part of your cool down too perhaps.