Best Method for Punching Power?

[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.