Author: Doug Werner Publisher: Tracks Publishing ISBN: 1884654096 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 161
Book Description
A guide to boxing training and techniques with information about equipment, safety, working out, and offensive and defensive skills, with a history of the sport.
Author: Danna Scott Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780399526015 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
An easy-to-understand, fully illustrated guide to health and fitness with the art of boxing. It will be useful either to the novice fighter or to those looking for a new form of exercise. It explains the equipment, punches and combinations, defensive skills and movement, ring strategy, boxing styles, training techniques, and tricks of the trade.
Author: Mark Hatmaker Publisher: Tracks Publishing ISBN: 1935937197 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
This guide to the finer points of boxing provides the wisdom needed to make the transition from enthusiastic beginner to proficient pugilist. The ABCs of ring generalship, offensive and defensive ring movements, feints, and draws and fakes are examined and explained along with clinching techniques, head-hunting, body work, and counter-punching chains. Strategies for boxing against tall and short opponents as well as for a variety of fighting styles such as charger, speed-demon, stick-and-move, and slugger and brawler are discussed in detail. Specific drills focus on sophisticated ring stratagems such as throwing complex combinations, cutting off the ring, fighting off the ropes, generating power, and cornering an opponent are included.
Author: Doug Werner Publisher: Tracks Publishing ISBN: 1884654886 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
A boxer’s workout is a fantastic way to burn calories—it is engaging, exhilarating, and effective. Going beyond jumping rope and punching the heavy bag, this guide describes intermediate and advanced boxing skills that will help anyone improve their performance in the ring. This boxing workout will help develop body and character so that athletes can get into the best shape of their lives, build self-confidence, and be winners in and out of the ring.
Author: Buck Jindra Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 56
Book Description
"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'." -Muhammad Ali Make this quote your bible and you're on your way to success in boxing. Whether you want to box to stay fit or to ultimately become a professional boxer, this all-inclusive boxing guide will cover an overview of boxing, so to help you get started. In this boxing guide book, you will discover: Boxing equipment, training Warm-up exercises How to make a fist Fighting positions - Position of the body Footwork - Things to remember about footwork The uppercut - How to use the uppercut Fienting Passing the Punch Going into your shell (covering when under attack) And Much More! Start today. It's never too late. Hope this guide helped you with the basics of boxing in every department. "You never lose until you actually give up." - Mike Tyson
Author: Andrew Hudson Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
Discover how to box in 30 days! Even if you don't go to a boxing gym and have no experience If you want to get in amazing shape, learn useful self defense, or you simply just want to start boxing. This book will help you on your journey right from the beginning and will teach you everything you need to know! I will pass on my expert knowledge, as a qualified boxing coach I have been doing this for years. I once was a beginner too, it can be hard to start a new sport/hobby with nothing and I was always sitting on the fence about starting. However, I believe that boxing has helped me in so many ways that I didn't think was possible! Boxing helped me build everlasting confidence and made me determined, this improved me as a fighter and as a person. I focus on making this book suit people who want to work out at home as I understand going to a gym/ boxing club is expensive and brave for beginners, although going to a gym does help. I have witnessed many people change for the good and I am sure you can better yourself with boxing, afterall everyone has room for growth and that is why I'm here to help. In this book, you'll discover: A range of simple, yet effective punches. The importance of footwork. The stance that suits you as a fighter The basics of defence Home boxing workouts. The perfect diet that suits a boxer. The brilliance of shadowboxing. Deadly combinations. How boxing can make you mentally stronger and much more... *Don't just keep considering it, try something new! So if you want to get to grips with the boxing basics and get in shape, then scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button now!
Author: Hans Song Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
Are you new to boxing and don't know where to start? I made this complete basic boxing guide for all beginner boxers, filled with explanations, pictures, videos, and links to more detailed guides. Let's begin!First off, why boxing? This question couldn't have been any easier. Boxing is a great workout, perhaps the most challenging of all sports. Requires speed, agility, finesse, power, endurance, and ultimate mental toughness. Boxing pushes you like no other, pitting the finest and highest level athletes against each other. It's a sweet science but at the same time also a raw and brutal sport.More importantly boxing takes you further than you ever thought possible. Boxing makes you more alive than ever, more humble in defeat, and most glorious in victory. Boxing reveals the true fighter deep inside every single one of us.
Author: Jamie Dumas Publisher: Crowood ISBN: 1847975437 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 385
Book Description
Successful Boxing is the ultimate training manual for aspiring boxers. This indispensable resource shares tips and suggestions on how to improve skills and maximize performance. With inspiration and advice from World Champions Sergio Martinez, Saul Alvarez, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and a foreword by legendary World Champion Juan Manuel Marquez, using the information presented in this book will be just like receiving private sessions with a coach or top performer. These tips and training methods allow you to master the individual nuances of boxing to give you the winning edge. Whether you are new to the sport or a serious competitor, this book will help you reach the next level of skill development.This is the ultimate training manual for aspiring boxers. Superbly illustrated with 360 colour instructional and action photographs. Andy Dumas is a Canadian Boxing Coach who hosts and produces a number of TV fitness and sports shows and Jamie Dumas is a trainer of fitness instructors and develops workshops for fitness clubs.
Author: Pat O'Keeffe Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1626369003 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
With its intense action and the unbelievable skills of its athletes, kickboxing has gained worldwide popularity in a way that few international sports ever do. It requires perfect timing, incredible speed, and relentless power, and this guide details the techniques and methods needed to win. Author Pat O’Keeffe is a coach, trainer, and champion with three decades of experience, and his book includes dozens of techniques to prepare both body and mind for this dangerous and exciting sport. Helpful step-by-step illustrations demonstrate the techniques of defense; counter-attack; timing, distance, and mobility; sparring; speed and power; conditioning; and more. Perfect for the amateur kick boxer or the experienced fighter, Kick Boxing is a must-read resource written by one of the sport’s top experts. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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