Best Method for Punching Power?

[Trainer Monkey]

Drive with your hip,arming it will never develop full power

[RozzySean]

Everybody else has pretty much covered it, but one aspect of power is relaxation. This is really part of technique. It's very hard to execute a perfect punch with if you're body is too tense. You lose flow and fluidity. Pavlik is a good example of that. He is very relaxed in the ring and that allows him to both take punchs better and deliver harder shots.

It's like when you are golfing. If you tense up and try to hit a big drive, you are more likely to whiff and even if you connect, it won't go as far as if you stay loose. You're longest drives come off your most relaxed and fluid swings. Both acts, hitting a golf ball and throwing a punch, rely on channeling power from the legs and core into the hands, via proper technique. In both acts, you will not be as effective if rely on just your arms and don't learn to effficiently involve your whole body in the act. The more relaxed you are, the better you can execute the perfect technique.

[Youngblood]

Everybody else has pretty much covered it, but one aspect of power is relaxation. This is really part of technique. It's very hard to execute a perfect punch with if you're body is too tense. You lose flow and fluidity. Pavlik is a good example of that. He is very relaxed in the ring and that allows him to both take punchs better and deliver harder shots.

It's like when you are golfing. If you tense up and try to hit a big drive, you are more likely to whiff and even if you connect, it won't go as far as if you stay loose. You're longest drives come off your most relaxed and fluid swings. Both acts, hitting a golf ball and throwing a punch, rely on channeling power from the legs and core into the hands, via proper technique. In both acts, you will not be as effective if rely on just your arms and don't learn to effficiently involve your whole body in the act. The more relaxed you are, the better you can execute the perfect technique.

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[RozzySean]

Everybody else has pretty much covered it, but one aspect of power is relaxation. This is really part of technique. It's very hard to execute a perfect punch with if you're body is too tense. You lose flow and fluidity. Pavlik is a good example of that. He is very relaxed in the ring and that allows him to both take punchs better and deliver harder shots.

It's like when you are golfing. If you tense up and try to hit a big drive, you are more likely to whiff and even if you connect, it won't go as far as if you stay loose. You're longest drives come off your most relaxed and fluid swings. Both acts, hitting a golf ball and throwing a punch, rely on channeling power from the legs and core into the hands, via proper technique. In both acts, you will not be as effective if rely on just your arms and don't learn to effficiently involve your whole body in the act. The more relaxed you are, the better you can execute the perfect technique.

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Thanks, NC. A follow up to this. When you are really gassed, it's harder and sometimes impossible to stay really relaxed. This is why big punchers with poor conditioning will often loose there power as a fight progresses. The better your overall conditioning, the better your overall power will be because you can stay looser, keep your breathing at a better rate, etc.

[El Kabong]

Well there is a different method in training for speed + explosive power vs just speed or stamina or just power.

You have to do loads of reps with HEAVY weights and gas yourself out. When you're gased it's like Rozzy said, you lose your power but it's not from not being loose it's like doing burnouts in weightlifting you do a lift until you can't lift anymore AT ALL not just heavy weights but ANY weights.


The only way to help you out with stamina is to drain yourself of energy and then go back to work and throw your power punches and FOCUS it takes more focus and desire than anything else to maintain your power throughout a fight. You'll feel tired and you'll feel like you can't throw anymore but that's just your brain trying to trick you and your body trying to be lazy...don't give in. You have to train to be able to throw punches for 12 rounds anyway but you can train to throw whatever type of punch you want to for 12 rounds so if you want to land 12 rounds of bombs then train for it

[Andre]

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Your big toe.

[RozzySean]

Well there is a different method in training for speed + explosive power vs just speed or stamina or just power.

You have to do loads of reps with HEAVY weights and gas yourself out. When you're gased it's like Rozzy said, you lose your power but it's not from not being loose it's like doing burnouts in weightlifting you do a lift until you can't lift anymore AT ALL not just heavy weights but ANY weights.


The only way to help you out with stamina is to drain yourself of energy and then go back to work and throw your power punches and FOCUS it takes more focus and desire than anything else to maintain your power throughout a fight. You'll feel tired and you'll feel like you can't throw anymore but that's just your brain trying to trick you and your body trying to be lazy...don't give in. You have to train to be able to throw punches for 12 rounds anyway but you can train to throw whatever type of punch you want to for 12 rounds so if you want to land 12 rounds of bombs then train for it

That's a great point and a overall a great post, about focusing on technique when you're drained and doing this tired helps build muscle memory. At least my trainer tell me so. You are also right that a good part of loss of power comes from muscle failure and burnout, but I do think the problem is compounded because at least for me, I get more tense when I'm trying to fight through burnout/approaching burnout. Even before I get the that stage, as fatigue builds, I have problems staying loose. Maybe I'm just mistaking fatigue for tension.

[El Kabong]

Well you never want to be too loose or too tense during a fight. Boxing, like life is all about balance.

Find your happy middle ground of being loose and being tense and you have to focus to train your body to do that as well.

Explosive power and stamina are very hard to attain but things you hate working on in the gym are usually the most beneficial for you in a fight so you have to take pleasure in your pain during training knowing full well the guy you're going to be fighting is going to feel much worse than you do when you're training.