you don't need to have a swimming pool you can use the ocean a river a lake anywhere
where the water is deep enough for you to get your head underneath to do these exercises on
this video i'm going to give you four great exercises that you can do in water that will
really help improve your boxing exercise number four is a muhammad ali style training method and
i'm sure you've seen muhammad ali under the water doing these boxing well on exercise number four
i'm going to show you exactly that how to do it and it really is a lot harder than it looks
my name is tony jeffries olympic medalist boxer former undefeated professional
seven times national champion european champion welcome to my youtube channel there's so many
benefits of training in the water and i think a big one is that it's really low impact to zero
impact on your joints and it is probably one of the best resistance training methods that you
can do and we all know the benefits of resistance training they're so good so these four training
exercise methods i'm going to give you won't just improve your overall cardio and fitness and
help you burn fat but it will help improve your hand speed your stamina as well number one is
running you want to get the water so it's about up to your chest height that's going to increase the
resistance when you're trying to run backwards and forwards and as well with you being in the
water doing runs it's going to be very little pressure on all of your joints that you might
feel when you're running outside on the concrete number two is shadow boxing now you want to get
in there so it's up to your neck and when you're throwing these punches the resistance is a lot
it's really hard to punch in the water it's really hard to keep your good form and good technique
but it's crucial that you do that number three is an exercise that i learned from the olympic team
strength and conditioning coach i had an injury on my leg when i was training for the olympics and
i couldn't run properly he had me doing this in deep water and it is an absolute killer it really
helps build your overall fitness and stamina if you notice i'm in the water i'm really deep
so my feet can't touch the floor i'm moving my arms and legs as fast as i can
even though my body is moving through the water very slowly i'm giving it a 100 effort now with
this exercise you can do different intervals you can do 30 seconds on a minute off whatever
you like but this exercise here is probably the hardest exercise that you can do in water and
number four shadow boxing under the water this is very difficult we're supposed to be breathing
as we're punching but obviously underwater you can't breathe you've got to keep popping up to
get some fresh air in your lungs and coming back down to throw them punches now because your body
is full of air it's so difficult to stay down there and throw the punches it just wants to
come back up so that there makes it even harder when you're boxing you're in an uncomfortable
situation being under the water doing this is a very uncomfortable situation so you're not just
training your body you're also training your mind to be in these uncomfortable situations
it's totally up to you for how long you do this for but i just want to see it when you
are doing this make sure you're safe make sure you there's someone around you because it can
be pretty dangerous ah that was tough so that's it there are 4 exercises that you can do in water
and i am absolutely exhausted that was tough it's been a long time since i've done them exercises
but i wanted to share them with you because there's some exercise there like i said i did
when i was training for the olympics and there's a ton of benefits to them and a great thing as well
with these you can do them if you've got most injuries bad hands legs back shoulders but that
being said if you have got them injuries don't just jump in there and do it straight away because
i said so you know feel it out and see what works for you if you've got any questions about
any of these please let me know in the comments below i'm more than happy to answer them also
subscribe to this youtube channel for a lot more boxing education videos thank you for watching