Why boxing for fitness?
With boxing trainings immense popularity and proven benefits it’s hardly surprising to learn it is one of the most preferred forms of exercise among Personal Trainers and Fitness Instructors. Weight loss, muscular endurance, and cardiovascular fitness are only a fraction of what boxing training offers to its participants. Through science and research it has become quite clear that boxing for fitness is not just limited to people who want to get fit and lose weight but is now a common form of training for professional athletes and teams wanting to enhance their performance on the sporting field. Over the years coaches and trainers have realised the importance of cross training to an athlete’s fitness regime with boxing being the most preferred method used. Using a variety of skills and techniques boxing as a form of exercise can be transferable to a range of sports including, football, rugby, cricket, swimming, tennis, and dancing. All these sports require a degree of physical excellence relating to speed, power, endurance, and balance which only boxing training can provide especially when time is limited. Boxing for fitness requires no choreography which makes it easy to learn and simple to follow providing there is structure and planning in your routines. You can utilise your training in small spaces as well as creating high intensity exercises with minimal impact and stress on joints. History of THUMP THUMP Training Systems was developed in 2000 by Christian Marchegiani, a boxing for fitness trainer in New York with the YMCA. On returning to Australia Christian noticed a massive cultural shift in group exercise training. By 2001 THUMP Training was truly established and the next era of boxing for fitness was about to begin. Now taught all over Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the UK ,THUMP BOXING has over 60,000 qualified instructors delivering this ever successful exercise program. What you get with THUMP During your session you will be challenged with speed and power rounds, as well as some brain training when it comes to learning new combinations and skills. Elements of kick boxing also comes in to play with knees and kicks (all to pads), and the more advanced you become the more you will be taught in the sessions. The bulk of the rounds are based on 3 minutes of pad work to emulate real boxing rounds and difficulty can be increased with the addition of body movement and longer combinations. Other training styles that are brought in to play include circuit training, tabata training and pyramid training. No session will be the same. From week to week a different body part will be worked on, focusing on either core, legs or upper body and using the various training styles mentioned above. Get THUMPED! I have been training this proven system of training for fitness and fat loss for over 10 years with class participants and personal training clients at various locations. If you would like to find out more or book on, then click the contact page and send over an enquiry and I will be happy to help. Small group sessions and Personal Training also available.
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