Boxing is an ancient game. The boxing training and techniques have reached us as an inheritance. As this sport of speed and power dates back to ancient times, the present techniques and training methods are the product of continuous evolution and improvement over time.

Now, we have all the equipment and training methods that keep you strong and maximize your boxing capabilities. As a beginner, training with standard practices like punching the heavy bag and focus pads, shadowboxing, and boxing circuit might seem enough. However, if you to be best you always try to explore new and better training techniques.

Well, looking for training and techniques other than the already streamlined standard training is a good idea to improve your boxing skills and capacity. Such training might also include chasing chickens! Sounds weird? Will it even work? Certainly, such training hacks work just as they worked for the great boxers like Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson and Jack Dempsey. Back then, these unconventional training built boxers to be the best ones.

No doubt, such boxing training hacks seem to be unconventional and weird. However, such unconventional training is an extraordinary effort that outstands a boxer. These training are simple yet crazy that are found to be very effective in improving the boxer in his power, strength, speed and agility. One should keep improving not only his training methods but also his techniques and the strategy inside the ring.

A continuous struggle for improvement is a key to success for a player because there is always some room for refinement. Here we have listed a few of these unconventional training that are very effective.

Knuckle Strengthening

What do you think, what is most important for a boxer? Certainly a strong and a brisk punch! Hence, it is important and a great idea to strengthen your knuckles because stronger knuckles ensure stronger punches. By nature, our hands are brittle and practicing certain training methods help to gain strength and speed. Moreover, it keeps you from having any sidelining injury. Applying pressure on your bones especially your knuckles in a proper way is the best way to improve your knuckle's strength. The pressure helps the bones to adapt and evolve into stronger bones.

Various techniques are used to create micro-fractures and upon healing the bones form a stronger structure than before. Knuckle strengthening is an essential part of routine boxing training. Knuckle strengthening training may include walling that it putting pressure on your knuckles by pushing against a wall. This exercise not only strengthens your knuckles but improves your forearms strength as well.

Other workouts also include punching a heavy bag with your wraps only. While punching the bag you must maintain a proper distance and stance and follow a proper technique. Applying such pressure with no technique can do more wrong than good to your knuckles. You can also add practicing pushups tp your routine exercises. While performing pushups put your weight only on the first two knuckles or you can use your thumbs only if you need stability.

Blindfolded Shadowbox

Shadowbox is one of the basic techniques any boxer practices and every boxer knows how to shadowbox very well. Shadowboxing helps the boxer maintain his form as it is performed against a mirror. In the mirror, the boxer can pay attention to his execution of techniques. Moreover, practicing shadowboxing helps the boxer to gain balance and improve his movement, muscle memory and his overall technique. If one reaches to the expert level in shadowboxing, it is the time to level up the efforts and try blindfolded shadowboxing.

As mentioned shadowboxing aids a boxer in a variety of ways but the blindfolded practice of shadow boxing can also help. But how?

Actually, blindfolded shadowboxing refers to practicing the shadowboxing with closed eyes. It may sound weird and crazy but it helps you a lot in the long run. You put on your blindfold and practice shadowboxing imaging a real opponent next to you with proper rounds and rest periods. Move around the ring and react to your imaginary opponent. It helps you to train your mind and body for a real fight.

Movement workout in the sand

It is important for a boxer, to be able to move around the opponent easily. To achieve ultimate ease in the ring while moving around your opponent you must work on your movements. Better the movement, the better the fighter will be.

To improve your movements, one of the best hack is to practice your routine movement exercise in the sand. When you perform sprinting, shadow boxing, jogging, weaving and bobbing etc. in the sand, and offers a great deal of resistance. Ultimately, this resistance makes you more strong and agile.

Using body weights utilizes the same main idea of adding more physical resistance while routine practice. When you shadowbox with added body weights, it improves the foot and hand speed, stamina, endurance, and power of your blow. For this purpose, you can use weights in hands and ankles or you can use weighted vests for strengthening your core and upper torso.

Training with Tennis Ball

This hack is the simplest one with great benefits. By training with a tennis ball, we mean a simple catch the ball game with your coach. For this, your coach throws tennis balls at you from a distance of about seven feet. There must be two to three balls that your coach throws at a constant pace with varying time intervals. He throws balls utilizing different quadrants and you have to catch them and throw them back.

This is a very simple drill and it may seem childish but it does wonders. This workout helps you improve your hand-eye coordination, endurance, capacity, speed and reflexes. All these benefits make it an important drill that can improve your offense-defense techniques in a much better way.

Keynote: It is best to keep practicing whatever your coach commands you to, however, to excel in the field you must keep discovering other tricks and hacks that can help you climb up the stairs of success much easier.