Hello dear men. Finally, it's time for our next workout. During our close communication, which parts of the body, muscle groups were not trained: arms, legs, chest, shoulders, back - in general, the whole body. You and I gained weight and were engaged in fat burning, were on diets and much, much more. But every self-respecting man is simply obliged to have an iron blow. Do you agree? And for this, training the impact force is the best fit.

You must remember that you and I have already performed exercises for training technique. Well, there will be a reason to repeat them. But how to make sure that the blow is truly crushing, and the fist is iron - our today's training will be devoted to this.

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How to develop punching power? Naturally, only by training. And how to train - right now.

Let's first take a look at what the impact force generally depends on. There are two components here:

1. Body weight;
2. Impact speed.

So if you're light, work on speed, if you're a heavyweight, then take advantage of your punch mass.

If you have a heavy ball at home, such as boxers train, or at least a basketball, then this exercise, by the way, like most today, you can perform at home. Simply lift the ball over your head with outstretched arms, hit it with all your might on the floor, and immediately catch it after the first bounce. Naturally, it is necessary to repeat this training from time to time, making several approaches of at least 15-20 repetitions.

Since legs are important to us for a strong blow, we cannot do without their training. Here, the well-known “jumping squat” is suitable for us. I recommend doing it with dumbbells so that the load is bigger.

But we also can’t do without training our hands. What muscles primarily affect the force of impact? That's right: triceps, shoulders and back. Accordingly, strength training will consist of exercises aimed at these muscle groups.

The first number we will have pull-ups, best of all, again, with weights.

Next, push-ups on fists - you perfectly understand that not a single training for fists can do without this exercise. You can periodically replace it, only with a small weight. Whichever option you choose, the intensity of the training should be maximum.

For triceps, reverse push-ups are great. Do you know how they are made? Take a stool, turn your back to it, sit down a little and rest your palms on it. Lower your body up/down. By the way, put a weight on your stomach so that push-ups do not seem too easy for you.

When you're done, don't take the weight away. Better yet, bring a second one, because almost any exercise with them will suit our business like nothing else.

Do a variety of arm raises, as they strengthen the hands, develop the delta, increase strength and endurance - all this is of great importance for the correct, strong blow. Try lifting weights while standing, sitting and lying down - in general, any workout will be what you need.

Get a carpal expander - for developing the strength of the hand and fingers, for the forearm this is an indispensable thing. And the sledgehammer exercise! Yes, this is the training of almost any professional fighter without rules. Just remember P. Emelianenko - how in the village he hit a tractor wheel with a huge heavy sledgehammer!

By the way, today such a simulator, if you can call it that, is present at many public sports grounds. So if you know such a place, by all means practice there in this way.

Correct hit

In order to have a really strong punch, in addition to the sharpness and speed that we developed by practicing punching techniques, it is very important to put all our weight. What is needed for that?

While striking, watch your feet - they should be slightly wider than the width of your shoulders. When you hit, after the hand, in the course of its movement, the foot should also turn around, and it’s right to start lifting the leg from the heel. That is, if you, for example, hit with your left hand, then the right foot should stand still, while the left follows the hand.

Watch your knees - they should be slightly bent so that it is easier to transfer your weight forward when striking. The torso should not reach for the hand - it should turn as sharply as possible. Naturally, the fist should be clenched as tightly as possible, literally digging nails into the palm of your hand. And you need to beat only on the exhale. Yes, and if you don’t want to warn your opponent in advance about your intentions to hit him properly, swinging, in no case take your hand back.

But how to strike? You have to start with . Let's start with the handstand. Just take the same position as the original before push-ups. It will be right to try to put the main emphasis on the knuckles of the index and middle fingers, since it is they who, first of all, will “touch” the opponent’s face or torso. Performing the exercise, stand on one hand, then on the other. Gradually move on to push-ups on the fingers, which, by the way, are also desirable to do extremely intensively.

Valuable training will be throwing an empty neck from the barbell in front of you.

A huge role in setting up a strike will be practicing technique in front of a mirror, shadow boxing, again, bench press at an explosive pace.

These are all exercises you and I worked on when we worked on technique, so add them to your workout.

However, it is extremely important to have a truly iron fist.

iron fist

What exercises for fists can best be made as hard and insensitive to pain as possible?
All the same push-ups, rack. But the best training, I think, is the "diamond fist" exercise, which came to us from karate.

You will need two planks of approximately 20x20cm, although a wooden floor will also work. Take the starting position as before push-ups. Now, pushing off the floor a little with your hands, land with your fists on the boards placed under them, well, or on the floor.

This exercise strengthens the knuckles so much that you can't even imagine! Try at first to make 20-30 such "jumps". In fact, already trained athletes do no more than 80 repetitions. In the process of jumping, you can rotate your wrist, thus changing the position of your fist.

If you decide to seriously deal with the power of impact. Then you need to first of all acquire such a minimum as a punching bag and gloves.

That, in fact, is all. Watch another video that I prepared specifically for our today's workout. I will say for sure: train in this way for at least 2-3 months, honestly trying to complete all the exercises, and after this time your strength and iron fist will be able to cope with almost any opponent. On this I say goodbye to you until the next workout.

Then you are ready to perform exercises that will increase your hand speed!

Speed ​​kills, everyone knows about it. Many great fighters have it: Muhammad Ali, Thomas Hearns, Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, I could go on and on.

Being able to hit your opponent with a punch before he hits his own is probably one of the biggest advantages in boxing. The split second difference can make the difference between raising your hand to win and getting yourself off the canvas. Even if you weren't born with speed, you still need it. Even if it is not part of your style, you still need to develop it. And I ask you to turn these important exercises into your regular program, because everyone knows: SPEED KILLS!

I know the goal is speed, but don't rush yourself through these exercises. The most important factor in achieving maximum strength is relaxation. Relaxation is primarily a state of mind, which then becomes a material reality. Keep your mind clear and don't focus too much on one thing. Relax! Relax! Relax!

Instead of adding strength and accuracy to speed, focus on balance and coordination. A lot of beginners try to put both strength and speed together at the beginning, but this only slows them down and forces them to charge up for punches. Don't charge into your punches and don't try to focus on hitting the target. Instead, give your arms free rein, just try to keep your balance under you and your movements coordinated with the speed of your arms.

Sharp and Relaxed Breath = Sharp and Relaxed Movement

Shadow Fight (Pure Speed ​​Training)

Shadowboxing is everything! The more time I spend in this beautiful sport of boxing, the more I realize that sometimes shadowboxing is all you need. This simple practice allows you to practice every technique without wearing out your joints or straining your body. This underrated exercise can help you develop just about everything in boxing: footwork, balance, strength, technique, and of course in our case—SPEED!

Shadow boxing is perhaps the purest form of speed exercise. There are no bags to stop your punches, no gloves that push your hands down with their weight. You strike in the air with only the weight of your arms. Without slowing you down, this is the fastest speed you can move your arms. You can hit as fast as you can imagine your combinations. Shadowboxing can develop your speed of mind, your speed of punching, and your speed of getting your arm back in place.

Shadow Boxing Exercises:

Start moving around the ring and relax your whole body. Don't worry about fully clenching your hands. Throw punches correctly, but not in such a way that your shoulders tense up and get tired. You need your whole body to be relaxed when you shadowbox for speed!

Here are the beat numbers I use:

1 = left jab
2 = right straight / right cross
3 = left hook
4 = right hook / right overhand
5 = left uppercut
6 = right uppercut
*opposite if you are left-handed

OK, HERE THEY ARE! Follow them and combine!

Work 3 rounds. Exhale with every punch and with every movement. Don't worry about doing all the combinations in the list above. Stick to your favorites and then try a new one or two each time. You should NOT be tired. If you are tired, you are too tense. Relax your shoulders even more and maybe even slow down a bit. If you're running out of air punching air, imagine what it would be like in the ring.

When you step during combos, take VERY SMALL steps. You only need to take 2-3 cm steps so your legs can move as fast as your arms. If you take big steps, your feet may still be in the air, leaving your punches without support on your feet and without power.

Don't worry about power! Some sequences with double backhands or double righthanders will feel weak. Once again, you're only working on speed, not strength. Just let your hands fly out and add some rhythm. Take a few pauses from time to time between combinations and then return to speed again.

One final note, watch Manny Pacquiao doing shadowboxing in the video below. What he does is a perfect example of speed shadow boxing. Harsh breathing, very small steps, focus on fast punches. He doesn't focus on single hits, he focuses on whole combinations. And for the 923084723rd time, RELAX!

Quick Punches On The Bag (Speed ​​Endurance)

Fast punches are not always speed. Sometimes it's endurance. Moving a weight faster always takes more energy. So it's pretty hard to throw fast punches or even practice quick punches if you don't have the stamina to do it.

Throwing strings of fast punches can wear anyone out. At first you don't realize it, but as soon as you get tired, your slower opponent suddenly becomes faster than you. An even bigger danger from fatigue is that your punches become too slow to hit your opponent. So let's work on speed endurance so you can throw fast punches throughout the fight—not just the first round.

Exercise Beats With Intervals:

Find yourself a partner and stand with him on opposite sides of the bag. One boxer keeps the bag motionless while the second boxer strikes the bag non-stop for 15-20 seconds. Then you change. Do this until the 3-minute round is over and then take a minute break. 2-3 rounds of this exercise is a great way to end your bag workouts.

Some Thoughts About This Swift Punching Drill:

• Don't waste time bothering someone to count down 15-20 seconds for you. Instead, just count in your head or out loud while you throw punches. When you're done, just stop and your teammate will instinctively know to start throwing punches.
• You can perform various options on the bag. In the first interval, throw normal punches, aiming high (palm down, aim at a point on the bag 15-20 cm above your head). In the second interval, throw vertical punches, aiming at shoulder level on the bag. By "vertical punches" I mean punches where the palm is facing away like a "fixed fist". In the third interval, throw SMALL short uppercuts to the bag at body level. Keep repeating until the end of the round.

The interval punching exercise develops the endurance of your arms and shoulders. Which is VERY important in the later rounds of a fight or sparring. It doesn't matter if your whole body doesn't get tired...

When your arms and shoulders get too tired
your punches become too slow to hit your opponent.

Sure, you can still have your power in the later rounds, but if you don't have speed, that power won't matter! So work to make sure you're building arm and shoulder endurance. In case you haven't noticed, this fast punching exercise is a boxing rendition of the Tabata exercises (in case you want to know more about the theory behind this training method).

A very important reminder, do not get too proud and try to hit the bag at this pace for all 3 minutes. Rest pauses allow your arms to regain energy to hit at top speed. You should always train at your true top speed (running 100% when you're exhausted is not "true top speed"). Think about it, sprinters don't train for speed by running 2 miles at a time. Instead, they run short distance sprints, take a break, and repeat (aka Interval Sprints). Pauses allow their legs to regain energy in order to run at full speed again. This way you spend more of your time training at full speed instead of the half speed that happens when overly selfish beginners work 30 minutes non-stop!

Another point about not skipping breaks is that your workout can be better when you constantly have to stop and start again. Striking non-stop is easy when you're already on the move. But stop and start again, as in real fight, it's much harder when you have to keep running your rhythm. So please don't skip breaks. 15-20 seconds for each, then change!

Forced Speed ​​Workout (Pneumatic Bag and Bag Stretch)

The airbag and stretching bag are excellent equipment for developing speed. In addition to improving accuracy, timing, reflexes and coordination, they are also very good for "forced hand speed" exercises. Hitting fast is pretty easy if you only hit when you feel like it. Unfortunately, this is never the case in real combat. In real fights, you always HAVE to hit even when you don't want to. Since you're throwing these punches, more in a panic reaction than as an act of your own intent, these "forced punches" wear you out faster. So let's get back to the pneumopear and stretching pear, they force you to hit even when you don't want to. No matter how tired you are, you MUST hit the bag.

The pneumobag and stretching bag also have their own exceptional qualities. The pneumobag develops endurance of hands and endurance of shoulders. The punching bag helps improve accuracy and timing. This projectile forces you to constantly react quickly and think quickly. Learning how to work the stretch bag is an art in itself. I'll save this long explanation for another day. For now, just know that these projectiles will improve your hand speed. Spend 2-3 rounds on a pneumopear and stretching pear.

Resistance Training for Speed ​​Muscle Development

Pushups (Explosive Speed)

Push-ups, when done with a speed-focused technique, can help you add speed to your punches. Since everyone's hands are different, you need to find the ideal position for where to place your hands and how low to stoop. Focus on speed, not strength. You need to finish this set FAST!

TRICEPS PUSH-UPS

• Because of my long arms and thin frame, I prefer to do push-ups where I only go down a third. This means that I only work the triceps in this "stretched" phase of the pushup. I do about 10 short sets with only 10-15 reps each. Once again, I only work at the top of the pushup to maximize my fast speed and try to explode with each pushup. Focus on going down quickly and up quickly (most people go down slowly, get up quickly). When you pause, pause at the top of the push-up, not at the bottom.

PUSH-UPS WITH MEDICAL BALL

• Lower yourself into a push-up position, but place one hand on the medicine ball. As soon as you do the push-up, quickly move your body to the other side of the ball, resting on the ball with your other hand. Do push-ups as fast as you can. 3 sets of 15 reps. Another variation you can do is take 2 medical ball and place them at a distance wider than your shoulder width. Keep one hand on the ball and the other hand on the floor between the balls. As soon as you do a push-up, you move your body to the side, so both hands are constantly moving to the side and to the center. (If you need a more detailed explanation of this exercise, leave a comment). Once again, 3 sets of 15 reps.

PUSH-UP WITH COTTON

• Another type of pleometric style push-up that I like is the clap push-up. You can do 3 sets of 10-15 clapping push-ups. What is important is to spend a minimum of time in the bottom push-up position. You don't have to fly high, but just make sure you don't spend too much time with your arms bent in the bottom phase of the pushup.

Resistance Training for Speed

Harnesses

You can also develop fast punching speed with harnesses and isometric training. The harnesses apply a constant force when you strike. This constant resistance allows you to develop speed and explosive power throughout the movement. Regular weight training can't do this because the weight is only heavy in the beginning. Once you push out the weight, your momentum makes it easier to work as you extend your arm. Swimming can be a very good aid to constant resistance training because the water is constantly working against you.

Isometric Workout

Isometric training is a type of training in which you apply force, but your body does not move at all. But how can you apply force without moving?! You can do isometric arm training by walking up to a wall and getting into a punching position where you could theoretically punch the wall. Now push off the wall for 10-15 seconds, 3 sets at a time. You can stand at different angles that mimic different punches and target different muscles (chest, shoulders, triceps).

The theory behind isometric speed training is that you train your arms as if they were rubber bands. You're training your arm muscles to store energy so that once the hold is over...CLICK—your arm pops out like a charged rubber band.

Muscle Return

Hand-back speed is something that MANY boxers miss out on in speed training. Everyone loves to work on percussion muscles like the chest and triceps, but rarely does anyone work on return muscles like the back, lats, and hamstrings. What many boxers don't realize is that the return phase is half the movement of a punch, so being able to bring your arms back faster allows you to punch again much faster!

I have also noticed that many beginners in training do nothing but work on the bag. The bag is a solid object, meaning if you hit the bag it will always bounce your arm back, which doesn't train your recovery muscles. Sure, you can easily hit the bag for 10 rounds, but what happens when you spar? After you miss just a few punches in the ring, your arms will be completely tired and you won't know why. It's because you're not used to missing and you're not used to hitting the air and your return muscles (back, rear end shoulders and lats) are not developed in order to return your arm back quickly enough.

The best exercises to strengthen the muscles of the return arm:

A fight with a shadow

• You're constantly throwing punches in the air doing shadowboxing, which forces you to use your muscles to bring your arms back. Try shadowboxing at 100% speed with gloves on and you'll realize how weak your return muscles are. You don't need to add weight or do anything else. Even regular shadowboxing will help you balance your back body muscles with your front body muscles.

Pull-ups

• Pull-ups are a great exercise for your back and lats. Do 3 sets of 6, 8 or 12 reps. Whatever you can do, just do it. Now yours top part the body will no longer look so hunched over.

Stretching exercises

• I'm too lazy to list all the names of the exercises. Any exercise that mimics the movement of throwing out the arm should do. I have TRX Suspension bands in the gym and they are great for this, but lowering the rope or stretching the stretch ropes will also work.

Stretching

Loose, relaxed muscles have the potential to move faster. Don't fight with painful sensations in your shoulders or body. Make sure you do good stretches and spend a significant amount of time warming up your muscles. Even on non-training days, try to stretch. Many of the fastest fighters I've met have often turned out to be the most flexible people I know. (I wrote an article about .) FYI, you should stretch for MINIMUM 30-45 minutes before each workout and then another 10-20 minutes at the end of each workout. Professional boxers, and possibly elite athletes, usually do this at double the size.

Final Thoughts on Hand Speed ​​Exercises

Speed ​​starts from the head and ONLY THEN in the body…

If you can't think fast, you'll never be able to move fast.

…be that as it may, your body cannot box on autopilot. Relax your mind, concentrate and stay focused, but be aware of everything that is happening around you. Don't focus on every single hit. Try to focus on the whole combination or the whole bunch. Every combination of punches has a different purpose, whether it's to get in close, or to land a body hook, or just to put the opponent on the defensive to create space for you to escape.

Oh, and one more thing. Don't try to do every exercise above on the same day and every workout day. Use multiple variations and focus on one thing a day rather than everything every day.

Every person who is fond of martial arts, eventually asks himself such a question. Indeed, the force of impact plays an important role in battles and trains as a separate element.
The impact force develops due to two factors: body weight and speed. The result is mass times speed. Thus, a thin person with a low weight (if he has a high speed of impact) can hit as hard as a heavy bodybuilder. Of course, a huge role in mixing these two factors is played by correct technique strike, which involves putting a maximum of your weight into the strike.

Basic exercises

- A classic exercise is "shadow boxing" with weights. You will need two dumbbells. Pick them up by weight so that you have enough for at least a few minutes. This exercise for developing the speed of blows was invented more than a hundred years ago. During such training, try to work in a working rhythm, working out the usual combinations of punches. If, after the exercise, you try punches without dumbbells in your hands, then you will feel the speed and ease with which your fists will fly out.

- When punching, the triceps, deltoid muscles are mainly involved, latissimus dorsi back, pectoralis major and forearm. To develop the strength of these groups perfect exercise are push-ups from the floor. Such workouts will pump the muscles you need, which, together with speed, will give very good results. Push-ups on fists are considered to be the most effective.

- Throws with the ball. Your best bet is a regular tennis ball. Stand sideways to the wall, and feet shoulder-width apart. It is necessary to make a throw with the hand farthest from the wall, try to invest maximum strength, after the rebound - catch the ball, and continue to throw. The main thing is to do it at maximum speed, without slowing down. You will make your strikes fast and agile.

- There is another option with ball throws. But the projectile used here is a little different, it's heavy big ball, which boxers use in their training. It can also be replaced with basketball. You should stand up straight with your feet shoulder-width apart. Raise the ball over your head and throw it on the floor in front of you, catch it on the rebound. This well increases the sharpness, speed and endurance of the muscles you need. This exercise can be done 15-20 times.

- Sometimes in the hall you can see people doing a rather strange exercise. They put the bar from the bar vertically and begin to push it away from themselves with their hands. But for people involved in martial arts, and especially boxing, this is one of the main exercises. These neck thrusts are great for developing your explosive power. The blow becomes sharp and powerful. You can do such pushes 20-25 times for each hand.

Fist, you can find very little useful information. In particular, they usually write about the fact that you cannot put a blow on your own and you need to train with an experienced fighter or trainer who knows exactly what he is doing. We decided to correct this injustice and systematize all the knowledge necessary for a beginner to understand with a fist. Read on and absorb the knowledge!

How to increase punching power: characteristics

What are impact indicators and how to develop them? Speaking directly, without embellishment about the masters of Shao-Lin, then all fighting characteristics and exercises for striking can be divided into three indicators: speed, strength and technique. Below we list the various exercises with which you can develop each of them.

Speed

The best exercises for punching speed were developed by boxers a century ago: you take 5-10 kg dumbbells in each hand and start sparring with a shadow, swiping and

combining the same beats in your usual rhythm. Within a minute you will feel how all your muscles are aching from fatigue, but do not stop: by doing so, you are killing three birds with one stone. On the one hand, you strengthen your muscles and make them stronger, on the other hand, you increase endurance indicators, accustoming them to endure long-term loads, and, in the end, in training without weight, you will feel that you have become noticeably faster in movement.

Tip: Another very interesting exercise from wushu fighters. Do shadow boxing in the pool, underwater. The speed of your strike depends on the ability of your body to overcome air resistance, and since it is much higher, then, training in such conditions, you will become much faster.

Oddly enough, you can read about how to increase the power of a punch in a real fight in an anatomy textbook. What is strength? It's mass times acceleration. Accordingly, if you are working on speed, then you only have to work on your weight and thereby you will increase the strength of your strike. Try to score more work with big weights in heavy basic exercises.

Another secret of how to increase the fist is hidden in the density of the striking surface. For these purposes (in order to increase the density), various brass knuckles are used, and also, which is a more efficient and honest way, they stuff the surface of the fist, aligning the knuckles, which turns the fist into a real hammer. For the same purpose, you can simply do push-ups from the floor from the rack on your fists.

The correct technique for performing a strike is 50% of its strength. After all, a well-placed blow originates in the heel of the leg opposite the striking hand, and only then, accumulating the inertial force of the legs, back, torso and arm, does it come out at the striking point of the fist. By the way, this is why using an open palm to strike is much more effective (one bone joint is involved in the strike) than even a well-stuffed fist, because in the second case, more than 30 bone joints are involved in the strike, which is not only extremely traumatic, but also extinguishes approximately 20-25 % impact force.

Impact force largely depends on the natural qualities of a person. Even among professional boxers, there are those who have a knockout blow, and there are those who are not a “knockout”, although they have enough powerful blow.
And yet, the impact force of an ordinary person who is fond of sports can be increased. To do this, there are several exercises that must be performed as often as possible.

First of all, this is the well-known push-up on the fists, which must be performed on a hard surface in several approaches. The number of push-ups in this case should be selected individually, based on your own training. Flexion and extension of the arms at a fast pace is a kind of imitation of strikes, which will help to strengthen them significantly.

The second way to develop punching power is to use weights when practicing punches or conducting “shadow boxing”. For this purpose, small dumbbells with a total weight of 2-3 kilograms are ideal. Shadowboxing should be done over three rounds of three minutes each.

You need to rest between rounds for 1-2 minutes. At the same time, direct, side impacts and impacts from below are practiced. When the arms are strong enough, it is necessary to train the "series of blows."
You can significantly increase the impact force when training with a light barbell or a bar from this barbell.

Hands with a barbell in the “on the chest” position are thrown forward sharply in front of them, and then return to their original position. You should be aware that this exercise requires initial preparation and a thorough warm-up of the hands before performing it.

A kettlebell weighing from ten to sixteen kilograms will help increase striking power. With it, you can perform a wide variety of exercises, such as: chest press lying; presses and jerks alternately left and right hand standing; "eights".

It must be remembered that all exercises with a kettlebell should be performed on the "extension". “Bending” exercises increase the strength of the arms, but at the same time enslave them, which does not contribute to the development of sharpness and impact force.

Exercises that imitate chopping firewood develop the power of impact well.

You can “chop wood” at home with a small sledgehammer and a tire, however, this exercise requires the strictest observance of safety precautions. It’s best to do it outside, away from home furniture and other people.