Ab conditioning will help, but get infront of a mirror and throw your punches. Pay attention to your hips; they should rotate over for each punch.
This happens by beggining your punch from the ground. You push off really hard from your feet for each punch. Throwing your left hook you transfer weight onto left foot, then shift it to the right foot by whipping your left hip bone thru the target until your weight is on your right foot. Throwing your right cross is similar, except that your weight transfer pushes off your right leg and sits down onto your left leg; you sit down into your right cross.
Hips are important for power, because they trasmit your body weight. Even a 120 lb boxer can generate good force if his or her entire body weight is behind the punch. Just imagine 120 lbs being quickly tossed at your head!
As you spar more and develope the correct muscle memory, your hook will get shorter so that you can rechamber quickly, but it will still have your weight behind it.
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