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Steps To Choose A Great Boxing Fitness Plan

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So you want a boxing fitness plan? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Many of us live in small cities or too far from the nearest fitness boxing gym. In some cities, you won’t find a class to attend. How can you develop your own boxing fitness plan that suits your needs? So today, I’m going to give you the straight dope on developing a boxing fitness plan for yourself that’ll suit your training needs. This way, you won’t have to depend on a boxing fitness class or gym to get unparalleled fitness results. So what are these 5 steps…

1. Get out a piece of paper.

In this article, I’m going to share secrets for developing a boxing fitness plan that’ll suit your needs. So get a piece of paper and split it into 5 different sections. In each section, you’ll fill in a boxing fitness exercise that you’ll enjoy and will help you reach your fitness goals. You’ll take these 5 exercises and put them together in an explosive 30 minute routine. In box #1, put down stretches. Stretch your legs, shoulders, triceps, back, and shoulders.

2. Warm-up

A warm-up is key to bloodflow and preventing injury. Did you know that warm-ups have also been proven in various studies to increase strength? In box #2, put down warm-up. Choose from the following:

a) Hitting a speed bag for 3-5 minutes
b) 25 jumping jacks
c) Pushups – 3 sets of 20

2. Do you want strength?

If you’re boxing for fitness strength, you’ll want to incorporate boxing weightlifting exercises into your routine. Here’s an example: Do 5 sets of 5 squats, deadlifts, and lunges. These exercises will work your entire-body and most importantly, your core strength. For max results, do a tri-set. So 1 set is 5 squats, 5 deadlifts, and 5 lunges done back-to-back. If you’re not into weightlifting or gaining massive size, do hindu pushups. These are absolutely awesome. In box #3, put down boxing weightlifting or hindu pushups. Note that even if you can bench 400-pounds, you’ll find hindu pushups a challenge.

4. Do you want endurance?

For ultimate endurance, you’ll want to incorporate your choice of the following routines in box #4:

a) Wind sprints – 6 to 20 sets of 50 to 100 yards
b) Max incline sprints on a treadmill – great for leg endurance and strength
c) Jump-rope fitness – 3 explosive sets of 1 minute each

5. Total body fitness

Boxing fitness is just insanely awesome because it works out your whole-body. In box #5 put down your choice of these ultimate whole-body fitness boxing exercises:

a) Burpees – 3 sets of 20
b) Shadow boxing *highly recommended* – 3 sets for 3 minutes each
c) Heavy bag training (if you have one) – 3 sets for 3 minutes each

With shadow boxing and heavy bag training, move your legs a lot. Bouce around on your feet and “dance” – like Muhammad Ali. Use jabs, uppercuts and a lot of hooks. Get explosive – throw jabs for 10 seconds. Stop. Bounce around on your feet for 20 seconds. Throw some hooks. Bounce around, uppercut, bounce around, duck. This way, you’ll incorporate the all-mighty interval training into your workout.

Between each box of exercises, take a 1 minute break. Drink water and just relax. Do exactly what boxers do after a round – sit and rest. Boxing fitness with this plan will take your fitness levels to the stratosphere. I noticed significant results in my own training after doing this for 2 weeks when I first started.

Total time: 25 – 35 minutes. Get as explosive as you can with these boxing fitness workouts to get results in lightening fast time. An awesome boxer to watch for explosivity is the crazy fit boxer Manny Pacquiao.

Drug Rehab May Have Saved Canadian Boxing Star’s Three Sons

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Muhammad Ali called him “…the toughest guy I ever fought.” And George Chuvalo, who was Canadian heavyweight boxing champion for 21 years, is still demonstrating his toughness at 70 years old, traveling the world to tell parents and kids how drug addiction took the lives of three of his sons and, indirectly, the life of his wife. His tragic story makes it clear that the specter of drug addiction looms over anyone foolish enough to experiment with addictive narcotics, and how anyone who is addicted needs a successful drug rehab program now, not later.

The story that George Chuvalo tells covers a decade of serious family troubles that center around the fatal addictions to heroin suffered by three of his four sons, and the tragic suicide of his wife while in the depths of grief from her loss.

Jesse, the youngest, committed suicide in 1985. Jesse had become dependent on prescribed narcotic pain killers while in hospital for a shattered knee sustained in a motorcycle accident. After leaving the hospital, he was offered heroin by a friend to help the pain, and his real addiction began. When he could no longer deal emotionally with his terrible secret, he took his own life only nine months after his motorcycle accident. The family was devastated. Theyd never known he was a heroin addict and never had the opportunity to help him through a successful drug rehab program. Jesse Chuvalo was 20.

During the next eight years, father George was in the biggest fight of his life, struggling to save his second and third sons Georgie Lee and Steven. Both young men had developed narcotic addictions independently of their kid brother Jesse, and both nearly died from repeated overdoses. Eventually they were imprisoned for stealing narcotics from a local drugstore to feed their habits. George made it his mission in life to save his boys from heroin, but all attempts at drug rehab for both brothers proved futile they would run always quit or run away to get more drugs.

Georgie Lee, just four weeks after being released from prison, was found dead of a heroin overdose in a seedy Toronto hotel. Georgie Lee was 30. Steven, 32, was still serving time. And two days after Georgie Lee’s funeral, Chuvalo’s wife Lynne committed suicide, overcome by the grief of losing first Jesse, and now Georgie Lee.

The final blow to the family came three years later. Steven Chuvalo, only two weeks after release from prison and apparently doing well after drug rehab, was found dead by his sister Vanessa with a syringe in his arm and an unlit cigarette in his hand. He was 35 years old, survived by his then 9 year old son Jesse and 14 year old daughter Rachel.

George Chuvalo, known as the boxer who was never knocked off his feet in 93 pro fights, who went 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali, managed to stay standing one more time and formed George Chuvalo’s Fight Against Drugs, an organization dedicated to keeping young people off drugs. Now more than a decade after the tragedies, the ex-fighter is still taking his crusade around the country to high schools, middle schools and juvenile detention centers with his message: Stay away from drugs and alcohol, respect your bodies, your minds and your futures. And Chuvalo’s new wife Joanne counsels addicts and parents over the phone and in person, helping when needed to get people into and through a successful drug rehab program.

Autographed Boxing Memorabilia, Signed Photos And Boxing Gloves For Sale

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I was recently invited along to an event in Aberdeen Exhibition Centre to a Gentlemen”s Dinner. The main guest being Mike Tyson former World Heavyweight champion, along with Mike was another former heavy weight champion Tim Witherspoon and an another World Title holder Lee McAllister who hails from Aberdeen. During the course of the evening I was fortunate enough to meet Mike and Tim and got a photograph of myself with Mike Tyson which is in the process of
getting framed as I write this article.
Throughout the evening there were opportunities to purchase boxing memorabilia, boxing autographs and signed boxing gloves via raffles, auction and a game called heads and tails. Amongst the items in the auction there were Muhammad Ali signed shorts, Mike Tyson signed gloves and also a great deal of signed boxing merchandise available at reasonable prices.
This was probably one of the biggest dinners I have attended with over 500 people turning out to see Mike and his fellow World Champions. As you can imagine he was in great demand to autograph memorabilia and he did do several signed photos for charity and for those involved in the organising of the evening. However his time was in great demand and not everyone got signed boxing memorabilia.
I was fortunate in so much as my friends did a private signing session with the champ earlier in the year where I obtained a signed photo, signed boxing shorts and a few unusual items of boxing memorabilia and a personalised autograph.
Getting back to the items that were for sale in the auction there was some great Muhammad Ali memorabilia signed in person by the legend including signed pictures, autographed boxing gloves and even a signed boxing robe. All of the items in the auction were fantastic and well presented pieces of autographed boxing memorabilia. But my favourite item was of the greatest pound for pound fighter around at the moment Manny Pacquiao signed shorts which was in my opinion the best framed autograph that was up for auction.
The highlight of the evening was a question and answer session with Mike where he covered his career from start to finish including all of the ups and downs and even a few of the controversial moments in his life, all in all it was a very entertaining evening spent in the company of one of the all time Heavyweight greats.

Boxing Memorabilia from the Kent based Autograph Store

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Boxing memorabilia and boxing autographs, make impeccable presents for anyone into sports souvenirs. Unlike most presents, they also make great investments. Any piece of boxing memorabilia a person can afford to buy now will easily make its money back in 10 years because boxers, unlike other “stars”, never seem to fade in the public imagination.

The thing about boxing memorabilia: unlike pretty much any other sport, the people who box are either famous or theyre not. That makes most boxing memorabilia high quality, and guarantees it a steady appreciation in value. And that means that buying boxing memorabilia as presents ensures theres no disappointment when the wrapping paper hits the floor.

Imagine, for a moment, this alternative scenario. Rather than boxing memorabilia, a person chooses to buy a signed photo of a footballer for their sport-mad father/brother/other half. Only to find that the carefully-chosen image is received with lukewarm praise because the footballer in question has moved clubs, or isnt scoring enough goals, or was never really liked in the first place anyway. Doesnt happen with boxing memorabilia. Someone either likes Muhammad Ali, or they dont.

For collectors, boxing memorabilia (particularly boxing autographs, in any form) represents a kind of assured centrepiece. Boxers become famous for beating other boxers so by the time they are well-known enough to be marketing boxing autographs, their place in the sports history is already cemented. Players in team sports are associated as much with teams as they are with individual prowess, often “famous” only for a short space of time because they happened to play in a successful team during a good season. Imagine a signed photo of Kenny Sansom and youll see what we mean. Most people finding that on a website wouldnt even know who Kenny Sansom was. How many people in the world dont recognise the name Muhammad Ali?

Try a little experiment. Find a website that sells boxing memorabilia. Load it up and scroll through the names associated with the gloves and photos on offer. How many names are recognisable? Now try the same thing with a football or rugby related souvenir site. Bottom line: everyone knows who the guys on the boxing memorabilia sites are, and everyones impressed by boxing autographs bearing their scrawl. Muhammad Ali; Amir Khan; Chris Eubank; Jake LaMotta: who wouldnt be impressed? Owning a genuine piece of boxing memorabilia is like owning Geoff Hursts shorts.

Even boxings anti-heroes are a big draw. No collection of boxing memorabilia would be complete without a signed photo of Mike Tyson, or boxing autographs written by the sports most famous losers. Fighters who fall in big showcases are as important in the history of the sport as the boxer who beats them: the former Cassius Clay would never be as famous as he is if he hadnt pasted George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle. Boxing memorabilia, from this angle, is unique again: “losers” in team sports get quickly written out of history, while the beaten from the ring retain iconic status simply because they were there.

Boxing memorabilia and boxing autographs, then, make impeccable presents for anyone into sports souvenirs. Unlike most presents, they also make great investments. Any piece of boxing memorabilia a person can afford to buy now will easily make its money back in 10 years because boxers, unlike other “stars”, never seem to fade in the public imagination.

Boxing memorabilia is different from other sporting souvenirs it comes with a steadily increasing value and appeal.

Best Boxing Accessories To Enhance Your Boxing Style

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Boxing is a mixed martial art game; in the game of boxing each and every boxer follow some styles and manner. In general, people always want to attract others. Style is the key to become a famous personality in sports. To enhance your boxing style some best boxing accessories are needed. Accessories are the optional part to enhance the performance and also a fashionable item with a perfect outfit. Muhammad Ali the famous American boxer followed some styles which made him a greatest heavy weight champion.

1.When you consider the boxing, people guesses the style of the boxers by their punch. Boxing gloves is the best accessories to enhance your punch; it is the stylish accessory too. Many best gloves are there such as aerobic, MMA gloves and bag gloves which enhance youre boxing style and also provide safety.

2.The way we walk tells our mannerism, shoes are the accessories which are used to increase the quality of our image. Boxing shoes has some significant features such as, it is made of with nylon and leather materials and has a perfect grappling features. It comes in different colors and sizes.

3.Apparels, its primary function is to cover the body and acts as a protection from the elements, but now it has been changed it as a fashionable and a stylish one with attractive features. In boxing, apparels are also a material which attracts others and gives you a stylish look. The different apparels available for the boxers are boxing jersey, amber polo shirt and boxing shorts etc with a perfect fit and in stylish colors

4.Do you want your punch to be a different one from other boxers? If so, you need some training regarding how to make your punch a different one. Punch bags are the bag which is used to increase the strength, fitness and punching technique. These bags come in different styles with attractive features. Change your punching technique, a stylish one by practicing in speed bags, free standing bags and specialty bags etc.

5.You want some distinctive form which identifies you specifically in the match. Protective gears are the safeguard items in boxing. These are the items which exhibits youre confidence and skills. For example, a head gear protects your head and provides comfort in the match and makes you to concentrate in game. Different types of boxing accessories such as chest protector, groin protector and mouth guards enhance youre performance more.

6.As said before, you need some training which improves your performance and style. Strength\conditioning equipments improve the training skills. Speed and agility, strength and power and medicine balls keep your abs and hips strong.

7.People wander for different varieties, trendy hand wraps and gauze helps you to look stylish. Different hand wraps and gauze are available in the market with distinct features. Mexican hand wraps, power gel hand wraps etc which helps you to look stylish and gives you increase support in hands. Gauze is used as a medicine to wounds and it comes in different sizes.

Similarly punch mitts; safety accessories etc are available which enhances your performance and style. Boxers make use of these different accessories and enhance your boxing style.