Author : Chuck Bodak
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780809272105
Outlines the fundamentals of boxing including psychological preparation, physical conditioning, offensive and defensive strategies, and ring psychology.
Author : Al Gotay Ma Mps
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781432725068
The Techniques and Knowledge Needed to Excel in the Sport of Boxing The illustrations, explanations, and techniques presented in Boxing Basics provide everything needed to excel in the sport of boxing. Easy to follow explanations and illustrations introduce the reader to the sport by providing information on training equipment, types of boxing gyms, and how to get into fighting shape. The bulk of this boxing text is devoted to providing progressive steps in the learning of the sport of boxing. It begins by presenting the primary elements of boxing and ranges to advanced skills. The Instant Reference Guide is a special feature designed for busy persons. It provides fast-track references to the important points in every chapter. This publication can be used as a how-to reference guide for trainers as well as beginners. "Some books just show you how to box, others just tell you. Still others do a little of both. With Boxing Basics, Professor Gotay becomes your personal trainer, teaching you step by step how to box. This is the most definitive how to boxing book I have ever seen." - Randy Gordon, Former Editor-in-Chief of Ring Magazine; Boxing Analyst for ESPN, USA Network, and the MSG Network; and Chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. Presently the host of Fight Club, the popular Sirius Radio boxing talk show.
Author : Gary Blower
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 184797466X
Boxing - Training, Skills and Techniques is essential reading for both recreational and competitive boxers, and all those who wish to take up amateur boxing, or participate in a boxing-based programme. It offers practical advice on the many crucial factors that need to be taken into account if the boxer is to maximize his, or her, performance and potential. Topics include: an overview of the history of boxing; the amateur code; boxing weights; recreational boxing; equipment and attire; a detailed consideration of both basic and advanced techniques; the role of the coach; fitness training; gym work; running; conditioning; speed and agility training; making the weight and nutrition; planning the season, and much more.
Author : Christoph Delp
Publisher : Blue Snake Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2005-12-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1583941401
A step-by-step guide to all things Muay Thai—with historical insights, training programs and schedules, and technical demonstrations by Muay Thai champions. In this hands-on manual, renowned trainer Christoph Delp offers a crash course in Muay Thai, or Thai Boxing, which combines fitness training, self-defense, and competitive sport. The guide covers: • Muay Thai history, rules, and equipment • basic but essential skills, including starting positions and footwork • all attacking techniques and select defensive techniques and strategies • training regimen structure, content, planning, and scheduling • historical training methods and stretching programs Featuring detailed demonstrations by Thai champions from Bangkok’s famed Sor Vorapin gym, Muay Thai Basics offers authoritative instruction for Thai boxers and other martial arts enthusiasts looking to self-train or supplement their club training.
Author : Joe Fox
Publisher : Sterling
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Kickboxing
ISBN : 9780806997810
Challenge your body with an exciting, increasingly popular martial art. Kickboxing training is hard work and an excellent way to build your body. It is demanding--you must strive for maximum alertness, conditioning, strength, and quickness--but it is also intensely rewarding. Every training session and every fight leads to greater insights into the sport and into yourself as a person and as an athlete. This generously illustrated guide introduces you to all the basics you need to learn in order to step into the ring for your first amateur fight--and win it! Begin by preparing your body through exercises designed to increase your strength and stamina. Develop your triceps, biceps, shoulder muscles, and latissimus muscles for punching; your forearms and wrists for stability; your quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves for kicking; and your abdominal and lower back muscles for necessary support. Learn to control your breathing while running. Next, get to work on boxing skills--jabs, uppercuts, bobbing, and weaving--and kicking skills, including the front kick, football kick, roundhouse kick, and ax kick. Guidance is also offered in ring skills, fighting strategies, choosing equipment, and finding coaches, trainers, promoters, training facilities, and training partners. Before you know it, you'll be in peak physical condition, ready to kickbox your way to victory! 128 pages, 141 b/w illus., 8 x 10.
Author : Scott Bolinger
Publisher : Scott Bolinger
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
This book goes through the level one medicine ball routine and level one coaches mitts routine and boxing work out. It also goes through a beginners heavy back routine and shows the different strikes. The level on boxing routine sets the base set of combinations, that's your bread and butter combos, in the second round combinations that is to help more with hand eye coordination with working 2 combos at the same time as well as working how to jamb, counter and get off the ropes. The Level 1 medicine ball routine is a very good starter exercise to help tone and has been used to rehab shoulders.
Author : Scott Bolinger
Publisher : Scott Bolinger
Page : pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
This book goes through the level 2 medicine ball routine and the level 2 boxing mitt routine. The level 2 mitt routine you start working on some basic defense. In Bolinger boxing program, we don't just teach blocking as a single act, we teach block and counter. There is also a chapter that has a more advanced heavy bag routine. The medicine ball routine level 2 and 3 are advanced routines, you should be in fair shape when starting on those, but good for full body workouts. The level 2 mitt works starts you out in full set of defensive combos as well as defense and counters.
Author : Scott Bolinger
Publisher : Scott Bolinger
Page : pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
In this book, it shows the level 3 and 4 medicine ball routine and the level 3 and 4 coaches mitt routine. Level 3 medicine ball is a advanced exercise routine, level 4 you'll need a partner for that exercise routine. Level 3 mitt work is more advanced block and counter. In level 4 mitt work, you're working the jab, pressuring and working striking angles.
Author : Hilary Lissenden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1472902815
A comprehensive, practical guide to non-contact boxing - looks at workouts in an individual, group or class setting. Learn how to improve clients' body composition, heart-lung stamina, strength, speed, co-ordination, balance and flexibility. It also covers boxing training's less tangible but equally important benefits such as building confidence and self-esteem – especially relevant to schools and young people. Key features include: - Fully illustrated, with vibrant photographs and practical diagrams for imparting core boxing and safety techniques (e.g. wrapping clients' hands; teaching correct stance, punches and combinations) - Sample training programmes for clients of differing abilities and fitness levels, with guidance on safe and appropriate progression - Relevant content on dietary and health matters The Complete Guide to Boxing Fitness is a tried-and-tested, unique guide to boxing skills and drills for the fitness and sporting arenas.
Author : Floyd Patterson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1626368988
For all boxers and fans, this step-by-step guide to successful boxing by a two-time World Heavyweight Champion will be educational and entertaining. Floyd Patterson set out to “pass along to you what I’ve learned, to unlock some of the secrets of the greatest sport in the world.” He succeeded, creating a classic that’s one of the most comprehensive boxing manuals ever written. Topics include rules, equipment, how to bandage your own hands, stance, bobbing and weaving, punching technique, offensive and defensive moves, strategy, and conditioning—all offered with stories from Patterson’s career. Plus, there is a full workout program. With a new introduction by International Boxing Hall of Fame member Bert Randolph Sugar, this tour de force is an excellent resource for trainers and boxers as well as a tribute to a great champion’s career. 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.
