Miller

Does anyone have any advice for some good training drills?Thanks in advance

Derekwl

Hey mate,

What kind of training drills are you looking for? No offence, but you're post is a little vague. Just post what you are looking to work on!

Cyyya

Miller

I'm just looking for more training drills in genaral to add some variety to my training whether it be pad work,bag work,sparring drills,etc...I'd just like some insight on how other people train their fighters and themselves for matches

Derekwl

So I'm assuming that you arent part of a club or gym right now.

My normal training session is like this:

15 mins. of dynamic stretching (bouncing stretches)
20 mins. of circuit including shadow boxing/push ups/situps in 3 min. intervals
25 mins. of pad work/defense drills
15 mins. of bag work
15 mins. of Light to medium sparring

My workouts are only 1.5 hours, but I usually swim in the mornings, as I am a competitive swimmer.

Tom Yum

Heavybag work:

You can train for power. Don't focus on throwing a lot of kicks, punches or knees in rapid succession. Just hit the bag with really bad intentions, while keeping good technique.

Speed. Hit the bag with most of your power, but focus on rhythm and speed throwing as many blows as possible in a give amount of time. For example, throw as many left hooks and right crosses as possible in a 30 second interval.

Bag sparring. Move around the bag as if circling your opponent. Try to set up combinations that expose your imaginary partners weakness. For example, his punches get sloppy and he paws them on the draw back; He is a headhunter with good handspeed but is too preoccupied to cover his body/legs; He is a good kicker, but weak in boxing or just a lazy fighter who falls for feints and can't keep his hands up...like Tom Yum


Pad work.

You can do all of the above, but with the added benefit that your partner can hit you with the pads and throw kicks!

For example, the pad holder feeds you a jab, cross and the pad holder immediately tries to attack your exposed left side with a left hook, then right thai kick to the legs.

Obviously, your job is to not be sloppy keeping your hands up to cover (if you're tired) or move out of the way of that hook and be able to check that kick and follow up (not actually hitting the pad holder though in your follow up, just setting yourself up to get back in).

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