Personal training in boxing for fitness
There’s a reason why most personal trainers & boot camp instructors run boxing fitness workouts - it gets results! When you look at the perfect athlete, chances are your thinking of a world class athlete - the boxer.
Boxers are the epitome of fitness. Visualise a boxer: rippling muscles with a low bodyfat percentage. I think every personal training client would be happy to have a boxer’s physique.
Weight loss
Clients can get great results from a boxing for fitness workout because you are building lean muscle & increasing your metabolism, thus lowering your bodyfat. As we know, lean muscle burns more calories.
“According to research, boxers can burn over 800 calories in the ring, making the sport the most effective sport for weight loss”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4670290/Boxing-burns-calories-sex-survey-reveals.html
Boxing burns more calories than running or gym workouts and Research reveals those results place boxing with one of the highest calorie burns of any exercise.
Improves kinaesthetic intelligence
Boxing pad training engages the mind and body to work in unison. Your mind and body are interlinked. Your body responds to your thoughts of the conscious and subconscious mind by using new boxing pad combinations. You are contemplating and concentrating on the punching combination.
When you’re walking, cycling, jogging or lifting weights normally, your conscious mind slips into an inattentive mindless rhythm normally training at once pace.
Punching boxing pads improves your hand and eye coordination, reflexes and fast twitch muscle fibres. Hand and-eye coordination can be improved by using boxing pad reflex drills with your client and can help develop physical dexterity.
Engaging the mind & body while exercising has shown to increase the memory. Boxing is one of the best ways to improve your overall athleticism. In fact, ESPN and a panel of experts, a group made up of sports scientists from the United States Olympic Committee, of academicians who study the science of muscles and movement published a study claiming that boxing requires the greatest amount of athleticism of any sport.
http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/sportSkills
A great aerobic & anaerobic workout
Whenever a variety of muscle groups are engaged in quick bursts of energy expenditure, the heart and lungs are called upon to perform at a very high rate.
With a sport such as walking or running, one has to push themselves to perform at an intense rate. But with boxing, the mere activity itself will soon have the heart and lungs pushed to the max.
You can use boxing as an EPOC workout. EPOC is the acronym for excess post-exercise oxygen consumption. What it means is that you burn more calories when your boxing workout is finished after a workout, as well as causing a increase in a person’s VO2 max (maximum aerobic capacity).