on this video i'm going to give you four tips to be able to continue your boxing training
if you've got bad hands tip number four is by far the best it put years on to my box in career
so make sure you watch till tip number four and get all of that great information right there
my name is tony jeffries olympic medalist boxer former undefeated professional seven times
national champion european champion welcome to my youtube channel i had 106 fights in my career i
started boxing at the age of 10 years old all the way through i was 27 when i got forced to retire
with hand injuries i remember as a 13 year old kid i damaged my right hand all i could do was
use my left hand and what that done was really strengthened my left side i really worked on
perfecting the job perfecting the hook working on the footwork and then a few weeks later when my
right hand got better i hurt my left hand so with my left hand being hurt what i did i spent time
just working on my right hand it helped me improve my punching power getting used to rotating you're
working on my right hook my straight across so when you've got one bad hand you can always work
on the other hand and one quick tip for you right here is tip number one is if you all have got one
bad injured hand get a tennis ball or use a boxing glove and if you've got a bad right hand
put the ball and the right hand on your face right here because all you're doing is using your left
hand now what this is going to do is prevent you from dropping your back hand which you should
never drop your non-punching hand anyway so if you've got your injured back hand put this there
and you can box there if your lead hand that is hurting again put it in between your face
and your fist and just use this so now you're never going to uh drop that bad hand and what
you're going to do is get into good habits which i talk about on my channel all the time getting
the good habits is key tip number two is do everything that you would normally do just replace
the impact stuff meaning the heavy bag stuff and the mitt work and the sparring with shadow boxing
yeah shadow boxing and it's it's key that you that you do this because you know you need to keep
your muscles used to moving and you can shadow box at a high intensity shadow box fast back
back and still really raise that heart rate but what you can do you can work on form you can work
on good form all the time if you've got any bad habits i'm sure you have we've all got them you
can work on them bad habits getting out of them bad habits but in shadow boxing working on that
good good form and a couple of things that you can do when shadow boxing is what you can do is grab a
pair of dumbbells i used to do this all the time and training even when i didn't have bad hands i
would be doing using these for shadow boxing and what this is going to do is going to develop your
shoulder strength your shoulder stamina if you've ever gotten tired when you're in boxing you'll
notice one of the first things that you start doing is dropping your hands so if you can get
used to boxing with some dumbbells and keeping your hands up it's only going to help develop
your conditioning in your shoulders and as well the kind of your overall conditioning in boxing so
use dumbbells for shadow boxing one thing that i used to do when i was shadow boxing with dumbbells
for a three minute round is i would keep the dumbbells up for 45 seconds
working on speed good form technique after 45 seconds i'll drop them for 45 seconds
pick them up for 45 seconds and then drop them for the last 45 seconds that last 45 seconds you your
hands feel really light and you're punching really fast another thing you can do as well other than
the dumbbells is get one of these things this is a resistance band it's a big stretchy band
and with this you can put this underneath your arms like this put your thumbs in it
get your hands up and throw the punches here now if you think with this being stretchy and it's
got lots of resistance because it's a resistance band when i'm throwing a punch out this is trying
to pull my arm back so it's help and develop all of the muscles in the arm again building that good
conditioning using the resistance band i would say it might be even better than using the dumbbells
but whatever you've got and whatever you can do but shadowboxing with the resistance band again
doing the same thing 45 seconds on 45 seconds off and tip number four is wrapping your hands with
Silapos Gel Squares i did a full video on this a couple years ago watch that video after this
i'll link the video here somewhere but watch this video this technique that i give you in this video
enables you to be able to hit the heavy bag to do mitt work to be able to spar with bad hands as
long as you're wrapping your hands correctly with these gels that I recommend and as well with big
soft gloves on hitting soft bags will really be able to help you continue your boxing training if
your hands are ruined like mine were also ice is a big thing icing your hands i'm going to
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