Werner - Fighting Fit: Boxing Workouts, Techniques and Sparring

Preface:

Boxing has become important to me rather late in life (I took it up when I was 48!). I believe it connects to something primal, and I think many males, and perhaps a lot of females, too, share a desire that has something to do with gaining physical courage. As co-author Alan Lachica says, boxers put it on the line and there you face an array of intense emotions including fear and your physical limits. Besides that, with the right training and training attitudes, boxing can be uplifting, exhilarating and a heck of a lot of fun.

Many will turn to this book to seek fitness, and believe me, if readers take the drilling program to heart they will find it. I have never worked harder than I have sparring or even hitting the bag in earnest. Anyone who has trained seriously will tell you the same thing.

Its amusing that such a great and grand old sport like boxing should all of a sudden be trendy, but there it is. All in all thats a very good thing. Maybe when more and more folks appreciate boxing, the evils that have plagued it for so many years will be defeated.

Doug Werner

Boxing is a way to escape the daily grind. It gives me something to get excited about every time I even think of stepping into the ring. I enjoy my job as a personal trainer and coach and I enjoy the people I work with, but its not enough I love boxing! I love the competition and everything else that comes with putting it on the line.

There are a lot of good boxing books available. Unfortunately, most of them are too vagueoffering only general advice to their readers. This book was written with a more practical approach that should help beginners as well as coaches.

Alan Lachica

Introduction:

In our first boxing book , Boxers Start-Up, we attempted to convince the uninitiated and to teach a little boxing. We talked about a boxers passion, about the physical and mental benefits of boxing and about the exhilaration of supervised combat. Basic punches and defenses were explored in order to give the reader a better understanding of what the sport was all about and to give him or her a start toward developing a boxers workout program.

In Fighting Fit, basics are reviewed in detail and pieced together in a drilling program that develops the complete boxer. The major skillspunches, defensive moves and footworkare honed and correlated through heavy bag drilling, controlled partner drills and situational sparring.

There are loads of photos and graphics to learn by, and just enough text to fill in the gaps. In fact, skills have never been illustrated and cataloged any better, anywhere outside of the gym. Its all here for the serious studentwhether youre in it for the sport or the fitness or both.

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