Center of Gravity-Punching Power..Bench vs Squats

[Mischief]

I've fought a lot, and boxed for many years, Brick girl is actually the most right on. In my experience it's more general coordination / motor skills than anything, something you're born with. Not that you can't improve, work on things and be your best, but the guys that can punch through brick walls, are just born with fast heavy hands. It's not about lifts, most good boxers I knew didn't even weight train. If they could hit hard, they wanted to be in as light a weight class as possible, so pound for pound they really hit hard.

Just like most 5'7 white guys will never dunk a basketball, but some of us are born able to, without even ever working at it. Always freak people out with that one.

 

[gwl9dta4]

I have to agree with mischief, it's really something you are born with but can improve with training. I always had a heavy hand, and my friends always said i was Heavy handed. When i boxed with my friends i often socred hits that knocked them completly backward on their asses and i was not even trying. But when i tried to punch hard on purpose i sucked. Go figure.

 

[Thaibox]

Buy a heavy bag. Go balls out 2 minutes on, 1 minute breaks for as long as you can. Whatever is sore the next day is what you need to train.

 

[BrickGirl]

Remember though, there is a difference between training hard and training hard correctly. If you were to say bench press with elbows in, your triceps would be more sore than your chest, and of course you need to train your triceps for your flat bench, but just because you keep training that way, doesn't mean you are training the right way. Learn the proper motion of the technique, then work on generating more power from the movement, by working on speed and strength movement for that technique. Go slow, do the technique precisely, not just throwing wildly on a training bag and seeing what gets sore, because you are most likely throwing the technique wrong and using the wrong muscles to start off with.

 

[BrickGirl]

fine, a little more on the technique part. Lets take the legs, whenever you throw your technique such as a straight to the body, the right foot is goin to pivot slightly on the ball of your foot, and is going to extrend a slight amount to allow a fluid motion of pressure off of the ball and through the leg, the other leg is bent to start with of course, by the knee is going to move slightly forward, the straight of course will go through the target area, meaning if you were trying for the solarplex, you actual lockout would be the spine area, regardless of if the target is there or not, the technique will be the same, you will not fall forward if there is nothing there to hit, as far as *whipping it back* the only way to transfer the power from your punch to your opponent is by allowing the technique to stay there for an instant like your fist is velcro and sticks to the target. When it comes back, it should come back at the same speed it goes out and through the exact same path it went out. Now during the process, you will be relaxed but not limp, the only time you will become tight it the 1/2inch before contact with your target and will remain tense while you are transfering your power. the fist in this situtation will become relaxed again after beginning to pull back. The Hip motion is the same as the shoulder motion, people who *whip* the hips usually have faster execution, but in turn that takes away from the strength ratio and in turns makes it less powerful of a punch, the right hip needs to go forward into the target slightly much like the shoulder. All air will be expelled on the moment of impact, if you hold your breathe you are taking oxygen away from the muscles and they will begin to tighten and be slower, so breathe naturally until right before the impact and at the time of impact, your body should be like a rock and have no air in the stomach region, because your abs will be like rocks, be sure to breathe out your mouth with your jaw closes unless you don't care about getting hit back with an open jaw, which will usually always result in a dislocated or broken jaw. You need to breathe through the nose, and out the mouth with a closed mouth....shall I keep going.....

 

[BrickGirl]

When I train people, the weakest part of every persons punch that I have ever known has been there wrists, because there wrists are the weakest link in the whole process of striking. When your wrist breaks and I don't mean physically break although I have seen it happen, it bends down or up on contact, and there you have it, all your training on technique and speed and strength go out the window because the power is instead focused on your wrist area which hurts really bad. So if someone were to ask me 1 area to train to make a stronger "punch" it would be the wrist, because I bet it's your weakest link, sorry to finally have to go through this just to tell you that

 

[Thaibox]

BrickGirl, He can do bagwork safely if he has a boxing background as he says. BTW, this isn't a question of skepticism, but a compliment. What's your background?

 

[Immortal Juicer]

Punching power is all body mechanics, not strength. It comes down to mass times accelleration. Hit a heavy bag and keep it up, keep it up to the point that you are standing underneath the hook on the celilin and the bag is falling back at you.

Do that for 30 seconds and it will kick your ass and naturally develop effective body mehanics.

 

[Lord_Suston]

Punching power is derived from three basic parts
Hip torque and strength) this will create a rotational power to whip one's hand out at max velocity

Leg thrust) having one's feet in perfect position and explosive strength will create a base to launch one's punches

Arm speed) not strength, but speed. this is mainly to do with one's ability to relax the muscles untill the moment of snapping through someone'sd skull.

Excercises to paractice, Sprinting, Clean and jerk, Pull-ups, squats and if you bench try incline....l