What Will Boxing Do For Your Fitness?
Boxing has many advantages and is a great way to improve your confidence while developing a practical skill that is also a great competitive sport. This is an activity that requires discipline and which is a great way to focus some of your aggression and let off some steam. Surprisingly it’s also a very mental game that has you trying to psyche out and out strategize your opponent and is a lot like chess in fact in some ways.
However what boxing of course is also highly useful for is fitness and training, and this is what has leed to the popularity of classes like boxercise. Here we will look at what boxing can do for you and why it is so very good as a form of exercise.
Muscle Toning
First of all, everyone knows that boxing is a great way to build and tone muscle. When have you ever seen a flabby boxer? If you want a body like Stallone in Rocky 4 then boxing is a good way to do that.
In particular though boxing targets several specific muscles to give you that bulky upper body. These include especially the pecs (the slabs of muscle across the chest) and the deltoids (the round muscles on your shoulders) as well as to an extent the traps (by your neck and your upper back) and your triceps. This then gives you that hulking look that most guys want and makes you feel indestructible when walking around. At the same time though you will also train your core to a large extent and many of the supportive smaller muscle groups that often don’t get attention. For instance you will train the serratus muscles which control the shoulder blades and the obliques which help you to twist and turn.
Women getting into shape meanwhile though don’t need to worry about becoming too bulky as the same training will affect them differently resulting in more of a toned upper body and eliminating any ‘bingo wings’ you might have on the go.
Cutting Fat
More importantly though, boxing is incredibly good as a form of CV and a way to cut fat. This is because it has you constantly moving and bouncing up and down to stay light on your feet which will in turn use up a lot of energy. One of the main exercises for boxers in fact is skipping to help them develop the kind of physical fitness they need to fight for long periods of time which should help to demonstrate the kind of intensive fat burning you can achieve from boxing. This then results in toned and ripped abs, and when you combine it with the upper body jabs it is a very fast way to lose a lot of weight.
Perhaps the best aspect of using a class like boxing to burn fat and tone muscle though is simply the fact that it means signing up to something long term and going with a group of other people and an instructor. This will then ensure that you do keep going and that you stay dedicated even when you feel like staying home.
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