on this video i'm going to give you some great tips to be able to breathe
better in boxing and stay relaxed believe it
or not but i found that breathing in boxing is
one of the hardest things to be able to teach anyone who starts
boxing it took me years to be able to get good at breathing when i was in the
ring on the bags and the reason why this is
so important is if you're not breathing correctly
you're going to burn your energy very very fast
my name is tony jeffries olympic medalist boxer former undefeated
professional seven times national champion european
champion welcome to my youtube channel if you can whistle while you're boxing
with good speed good form good technique you know that you can
relax in boxing
just like that breathing it's something that we do every single day without even
thinking about so why in boxing is it so difficult i
think it's because it's natural for people to think if
you're gonna punch really hard you need to hold your breath
intense but that's the opposite to get more power in your punches you need to
be able to breathe properly to get more speed in your punches you need to be
able to breathe properly to be able to last
a full round you need to be able to breathe properly because if you're
holding your breath for a two minute or a three minute round
it's not gonna it's gonna take that long for you to
not die out and burn so many so much energy i've taught
thousands of people how to box and thousands of people how to teach boxing
to other people one of the big mistakes i see it's often
with bigger men they'll come in the gym and they'll go
on the heavy bag and they'll hold their breath
and they'll be on the bag and they'll be blasting the bag
and 30 seconds later
they'll be out of breath they'll be wrecked when i'm teaching people
who are struggling with this what i like to have them do at the beginning of the
session we'll do the warm-up then at the beginning of the session
i'll have them in the ring about to start shadow boxing but i'll always
start the shadow boxing with their hands down with the hands
down we're just working on footwork so they're just moving around working on
good formal footwork and now you might be thinking why is the
hands down hands should be up all the time and boxing which i agree the hand
should be up for the majority of the time in boxing but when the hands come
up that's when people start to get tight so if you've got the
hands down moving around like this breathing it's hard to get tight it's
hard to hold your breath in this position so this is
helping get in the habits of moving around now from there 30
seconds or so of that moving around the exact same relaxation
and movement but now with the hands up now i'm very
relaxed i'm still relaxed i'm breathing good no punches
just the hands up no punches just getting you start moving
now you can do this for as long as you want now after that what we're going to
do we're going to just throw some single
jabs exhaling with each punch we're going to go at about
50 to 80 speed so it's not full speed it's still relaxed just for the job
moving exhaling with the punches still super relaxing
now i'm going to bring in both hands any punches we want again
50 to 80 speed exhaling with each punch
now this here i'm still that relaxed i'm just seeing relaxed as i was with my
hands down
breathing now i'm going to add in the head movement so it'll look like this
then from there we can up the intensity now you can think about
staying relaxed same as here but now we're going full intensity 80%
to 100% speed staying relaxed
and that right there is some tips for you to be able to breathe better in
boxing if you've got any questions about this leave them in the comments below
is there something that you're struggling with in boxing that you want
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