Explosiveness and Endurance : The combination of the champion

Explosiveness and Endurance: That's probably a big chapter with a lot of opinions on it and a lot of different techniques that have been used by many fighters.Professional boxers, kick boxers and thai fighters have used similar types of training in their daily routine to build muscle strength and endurance. Throwing punches seems easy from your screen, but in fact it is very difficult to keep moving and punching for 3 minutes constantly. Without explosiveness your punches would be weak and could not cause damage to your opponent. Training your explosiveness means that you're doing workouts that need strength and speed, that's what explosiveness is, the combination of strength and speed. So there is a big variety of workouts you could try to become explosive like a tiger!

EXPLOSIVENESS

1) Clap Push ups

A great workout to improve your chest and shoulders' strength. Increasing speed in clap push ups will help you increase your punsching speed beacause its the same move the muscle does.
2) Jumping squats

There are a lot of people who believe that strong legs will help your punching strength and they are absolutely right! The biggest muscles of the human body are the legs and when punching you need to have your legs well trained in order to stay stable and move fast! Jumping squats is a great workout for your legs and for loosing fat. This workout will give you great leg endurance and ecplosivity.

3) Shoulder Press

This classical workout will improve your shoulders' strength and as a result your punches and especially your hooks! This workout is as simple as it seems but it would be better if you lift your arms fast and drow them down slowly to increase explosivity!

4)Dumbbell Punches

The last one workout that will definetely increase your upper body endurance and your punching speed is weighted punches. Take 2 light dumbbells(0.5 kg,1kg,2kg,3kg) and sjadowbox with them. 100 PUNCHES X 4 TIMES is a very good routine and you'll indisputably see better results after 2 weeks or less! 

ENDURANCE AND STAMINA:

Ok this is another one big chapter but there are a few standar methods used by the first boxers till today.

1) Jumping Rope

Jumping rope is one of the most famous techniques to increase your stamina and your concerntration. 15 minutes are enough in your daily schedule but for better results you can repeat for another 15 minutes in the afternoon. There are a lot of jumping rope moves you can watch here!

2) Running

 
Almost everyone boxer, kick boxer and thai fighter runs a few miles early in the morning in order to burn fat and improve his/her stamina. The best time is in the morning before you eat breakfast because you can burn even 60% more fat than running in the afternoon or any other time.
                                                                   3)Shadow boxing and heavybag

Shadow boxing and punching the heavy bag are two great aerobic workouts. It is a chance to improve your technique and burn fat! Ten minutes of shadow boxing and you will definitely cough up blood!