are you boxing training and you feel like you're not
getting any better maybe you feel like you've hit a wall and you're just not
improving on this video i'm going to give you three reasons why you're probably not getting
any better in boxing also at the end of this video i'm going to tell you the main reason i see men
ages between 16 and 30 not improving in boxing so if you're a man between 16 and 30
make sure you hang around and check it out at the end and make sure you're not making that mistake
my name is tony jefferies olympic bronze medalist boxer former undefeated professional seven times
national champion european champion welcome to my youtube channel firstly i want to say it are you
really not getting any better do you think you're not getting any better because when you're boxing
training day in day out or week in week out you might not see the improvements but if you look at yourself
a month ago or two months ago compared to now re check it out see if you are getting better or if
you're not getting any better because it's hard for us to see when we're actually in there doing
the boxing if we are improving or not number three are you working on just the fun stuff in
boxing are you coming to the gym are you looking all fancy on the speed ball doing new moves
are you doing the double unders and the crosses with the jump rope or maybe hitting that floor
to ceiling ball getting into rhythms punching like this that can be a lot of fun with boxing training
doing that but that sort of stuff isn't really going to improve your boxing form and technique
so if you're working on the fun stuff that's great for fitness but you'll not be able to see
an improvement in your boxing form and technique if that's all you're doing you really need to be
hitting the heavy bag and now i know round after round after round of blasting that heavy bag can
get repetitive can get boring but that right there is what's going to help you improve your
boxing number two are you training alone or are you training with a trainer if you're training by
yourself the chances are that you're going to be picking up bad habits if there's no one there to
correct you when you are dropping them hands when you're not turning them hips or when you
are holding your breath you might think that you can see it yourself but the chances are you'll not
be able to see yourself or feel that you're doing it so my tip for this if you're all working by
yourself is get a phone record yourself and watch yourself and analyze how you're boxing and what
you can do when you're watching the video write down the list of things that you need to improve
on and there's the things that you can work on right there so write down that list of things
you need to improve on now if you are working with a trainer if you're doing everything the
trainer tells you and you're still not improving guess what unfortunately i think it's time to find
another trainer because if you're working with a coach you should be improving all the time and
number one i'm guessing that you're coming to the gym and you're trying to work on everything you're
trying to work on good footwork turning them hips fully extending their arms working on faster
punches working on harder punches working on relaxing working on everything but if you're doing
all of that you're not really going to get better at one thing you need to be focused round by round
on different things now if you do what i said in number two where you're writing them list of bad
habits down let's see a bad habit is you're too tense so what you're gonna do you're gonna work a
full round on the heavy bag working on relaxation focusing on being relaxed and when you do that
you're going to improve your relaxation then the next round you can work on footwork or you can
work on perfecting that jab or keeping your hands up or not making any of the mistakes that you that
you've made when you've been watching yourself if what you're feeling from the previous session now
when you do that let's just see after that session you've improved your footwork by one percent but
you've also improved your relaxation by two percent and you've improved your punching power
by one percent right there from that one session you've improved four percent which is huge if
you can improve yourself four percent each session over a month imagine how good you're going to look
and how good you're going to be at boxing and like my great britain boxing coach used to tell me is
focus on getting one percent better in different areas of your boxing form and technique and then
overall guess what you're going to become a lot lot better at boxing before i get into the biggest
mistake i say 16 to 30 year old men making what's preventing them getting better at boxing if you
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great videos for you so you're aged 16 to 30 and you're thinking what is this big mistake that i
see with 16 to 30 year olds why am i categorizing that group well i'm categorizing that group
because where i live where i work box and burn we see tons and tons of people boxing training i'm
talking hundreds and thousands of people every month come through the gym and the big mistake
that i see why people are not getting any better is patience you've got to be patient to be able
to get better it does take time an example i was boxing for 16 years competing at the highest level
even after the olympics when i turn professional i work with tommy brooks in the same training camps
as a vander hollyfield and it took me six months to do this to have my hand from here to here yes
six months to raise my hand two inches i was in a bad habit of bringing this back down in here
from the jab bring it back down here but my coach drilled into me day in day out really lift your hand
up lift your hand up lift your hand up and it took me a long time i need lots of patience to be able
to just improve that little thing which overall if that makes me two percent better which i think
it was more than that you know improve my whole boxing technique so you need to be patient maybe
patient with your training you need to do the things that you might think is boring like hitting
that heavy bag for round after round focusing on just the jab focused on just relaxing focusing
on bringing the hands back the face if you do that i guarantee you will get better at boxing
i hope you enjoyed this video please give me any comments below i'd love to read them thank you