Heavy Bag Workout – Get Inspired!

Keeping your heavy bag workouts interesting and engaging is something that you really do need to strive to achieve. The more engaged you are in your heavy bag work, the more your technique improves, the more physical benefits you achieve and ultimately the better you become at boxing.

You could of course use heavy bag drills, and they are great, you can do all kinds of cool stuff with them. But you could also be inspired by emulating the style of your favourite boxer or boxers.

My go to fighter for inspired work on the heavy bag is Evander Holyfield. Whilst Evander is not particularly my favourite boxer (although I do admire him hugely), for intense heavy bag work he really inspires me.

So this is all about creating a system to let you look at your favourite fighter and pick out some aspects of their style to inspire your heavy bag work. We use something that I call Boxing Skills Buckets and my hope is that this will give you endless options to make your heavy bag work dynamic and rewarding.

There are 4 boxing skills buckets:

• Footwork
• Punches
• Defences
• Body Movement

These skills buckets can be used to go really deep on a fighter analysis, but for our purposes here, we are just going to pick out one or at most two aspects from each skills bucket.

We will use this individual aspects, these traits, to theme our session on the heavy bag. The best way for me to demonstrate this is to given you my over view of Holyfield for each of these skills buckets:

• Footwork – The Holyfield bounce and balance
• Punches – The incredible use of diverse hooks and uppercuts
• Defence – Simple high guard with with defensive hook blocks
• Body Movement – Post-punch slips or ducks.

So, once you’ve isolated these few traits, you visualise them during your heavy bag workouts and be inspired 😀.

Cheers

Fran

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