By Larry Goldberg
Quickness isn’t just pure speed, quickness is speed personified. The quicker your muscles can contract, the quicker of an athlete you will be. Whether you are aiming for overall foot quickness when you kick box or hand quickness for your punches, you should aim for quick, strong efforts. But how do you train for this?
Speed bags, obviously, have been the staple for training hand quickness in boxers, and it works quite effectively, but what else can be done? A newer type of training out there, known as isometric training, is one of the most efficient means of speed training practiced today. The training concentrates on muscle contraction and keeping your hands, feet and core leg muscles constantly on edge.
Isometric training can be done with the help of resistant elastic bands and only a short amount of training time. Programs that exceed 30 minutes tend to work the endurance muscles more prominently then the fast twitch fibers so speed training should always be fast. In fact, most of the isometric workouts take only fifteen to twenty minutes, include no formal weight training and are fairly easy to perform.
Why is quickness important? As an athlete quickness should always be on your mind. Throw a quick punch here, a quick kick there. Quickness when combined with overall core strength can be an extremely effective tool in competition. Quickness not only allows you to perform basic actions at a faster speed but it allows you to react faster to what your opponents throw at you.
by: Cheap Boxing
