Boxing tonight. My punches are too light. There's no weight behind them. Coach told me I need to control my feet more. I settled down and sat down with my punches and could feel the difference.
The secret to punching power and boxing isn't in the muscles of the back, or the forearms and wrists. It all starts from the ground up. You use your lower body's kinectic chain, meaning your gastrocnemius (calf muscles), the hamstring and quadricep muscles, all the way up to the hips generate a force against the floor downward and backwards, propelling the body's momentum forward. That forward momentum is then transferred to the upper body kinectic chain and converted into momentum generated at the fist.
What I worry about it is being too heavy on my feet. I have a tendency of getting stuck and flat footed in boxing, which is why I try to utilize a more lighter footwork. Unfortunately it's affect my punching so I need to start over and concentrate on the fundamentals before I get fancy with my footwork.
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