Do You Need A Boxing Trainer?

If you are thinking about getting into the sport of boxing, your first step will be to find a trainer. When finding a trainer, you will want to keep in mind that the safest way to go is to make sure he or she is certified from a recognizable boxing organization.

What makes a great trainer is the key to any relationship, and that is the tool of communication. If you do not communicate well with your trainer, you will be sure to lose the ability to grasp the techniques of boxing. A large part of training is the respect between you and your trainer, if there is no respect then the mental portion of boxing will be lost. You cannot argue endlessly with your trainer, and you must be willing to accept their criticism.

The key to a great trainer is if they can get you motivated, even on the worst of days. Trainers are there to push you until you cannot give any more.

The first place to start to look for your trainer is in your local gyms. It is hard to judge someone by speaking with them over the phone, or grabbing them out of a list of names in a newspaper or phonebook. The reasons behind why you have decided to learn boxing will determine how skilled of a trainer you will want to find.

A.   Where to Begin in Your Boxing Training Workouts

Many trainers have it backwards start boxing training backwards, thinking boxing starts from top to bottom. Footwork is everything. Great footwork will put you in position to punch, and allow you to elude a punch at the same time. Fighters that have poor footwork are easier to hit. They’re also easy to out box.

Young fighters must be taught proper footwork before punching. Proper footwork drills work best to remedy this.Fighters have to be taught how to move but still be in position to punch. That’s how boxing is defined. Fighters that have poor foot work look clumsy and slow. Renown boxing trainer Teddy Atlas would have his young fighters work on punching stance and footwork for a month or so before moving on. That’s why his fighters are so fundamentally sound, they work on it.

Working on good footwork is a must. Punchers need to have good footwork to punch off of. This will allow him to get in better position to punch, and allow him to punch of a solid base. Power punchers need to be set off of a solid punching foundation to dig and deliver their awesome power. Footwork, and boxing does start from the ground up.

B.   This is the Most Neglected Method in Boxing Training Workout Programs

Typically a fighters training camp will run 4-6 weeks of brutally intense training. If a fighter shows up in camp in pretty bad shape the training means to get him in great shape can often leave him over trained just barely surviving the training camp. The next line of action is check weight if the fighter is still heavy.

The best solution is to monitor the fighters readiness before training intensely. If the fighter comes to training wore out, why beat a tired horse even more. It’s not weakness the fighter is showing, it’s the fighters body telling the trainer something. The trainer needs to pay close attention to his boxer and at the same time implement recovery modalities after the training to ensure proper training readiness/freshness.

The fighter will then show up to the next training session rejuvanated and ready to train hard. I’ll repeat this again too, naive boxing trainers look at over training as not training hard enough. It is ridiculous for fighters to show up to the fight fatigued by barely surviving their training camp. Implementing recovery methods will ensure this won’t happen.

Here are some recovery methods that can be successfully applied to the fighters training: foam roller, massage stick, goose bump ball, deep tissue massage, steam room, hot tub, and post workout nutrition. Nutrition on a whole determines how well a fighter can train and recover. If the fighter is bloody starving himself to make weight, that’s the fight itself and it’ll cost the fighter the fight.

By gaging the training intensity of the fighter you allow the fighter to recover better and not peak to early for the fight.

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