Arms gassing in boxing

[Dana_is_your_GOD]

First off, I'm a grappling specialist. I do have experience with Muay Thai and Boxing, but coming back to boxing I find my arms gassing after 3-4 3 min rounds and I feel it pretty heavily. I'm pretty tall and have long arms. I've read that this can gas your arms quicker. The rest of my body feels fine, it's just the shoulders. Any boxing bro tips?

 

[ARIZE]

Learn to relax your shoulders... And arm conditioning is a thing you can work on: heavy bag, speed bag, double end bag, shadowboxing with weights...

 

[Reyesnuthugr]

Speed bag would help with that, specifically

 

[Dana_is_your_GOD]

Learn to relax your shoulders... And arm conditioning is a thing you can work on: heavy bag, speed bag, double end bag, shadowboxing with weights...

Do I need to get physically stronger, like weight lifting? I'm not weak, but I didn't know if this would help.

 

[Superhet]

1. Stretch your elbow & shoulder flexors and your wrist abductors. I do all three simultaneously by putting arm #1 down by my side, extending it back, grabbing arm 1's forearm with arm #2 and then pulling both my shoulder, elbow and wrist down and back. Amazing stretch.

2. Practice your form for every punch in intervals and individually on the heavy bag. By intervals, I mean throw the punch and then wait several seconds before you throw it again. This will iron out your technique and your body will figure little details out on its own.

3. Keep sparring, your body will get used to it and solve the problem itself.

That's it.

 

[ARIZE]

Do I need to get physically stronger, like weight lifting? I'm not weak, but I didn't know if this would help.

Getting stronger doesn't hurt for combat sports in general, but specifically for your problem, that's not the answer, that's not the way to reduce arm gassing...
Anyway I'm an old school guy and i believe in push-ups and pull-ups, not so much in weight lifting.

 

[BC]

First off, I'm a grappling specialist. I do have experience with Muay Thai and Boxing, but coming back to boxing I find my arms gassing after 3-4 3 min rounds and I feel it pretty heavily. I'm pretty tall and have long arms. I've read that this can gas your arms quicker. The rest of my body feels fine, it's just the shoulders. Any boxing bro tips?

Do I need to get physically stronger, like weight lifting? I'm not weak, but I didn't know if this would help.

Loosen up your arms and shoulders, you do not want to keep your arms and shoulders all super tensed before you throw, when you are all tense your lactic acid will build up faster and that's when your arms feel sore and beat.

So just stay nice and loose in your stance while maintaining a good posture of course and a good base and just let the hands flow, also always remember to exhale as you throw as well.

As a competitor and an athlete of course you always want improve in all aspects of your game so lifting is always good for you as well for strength and conditioning but your problem is not a matter of that.

Like I said just keep it nice and loose and remember it all comes with repetitions boss man, repetitions from working the heavy bag, speed bag, hitting pads, sparring, etc, it's all repetitions.


So don't get discouraged about it, just keep putting in the work and have fun with it, you will feel better one session at a time. Keep at it G.

 

[BoweryB'hoy]

2lb weights. One in each hand. Straight punches / angled up / straight up. Do it for for the duration of the round. Repeat.

 

[Frode Falch]

Train more punching. Yes i known. Its the boring answer. But its the only correct one.

Punch more. Round after rounds. As many as you can.

Time and dedication will take care of the rest.

Now back to work.

 

[BillytheFish]

Your arm/shoulder strength is probably v strong from grappling- so you're probably gassing out because your shoulders and arms are too tense. Stay loose as possible- just enough strength to keep your hands to your head height. Shadow boxing nice and loose should help.

 

[rmongler]

Get those 50oz safety gloves and start hitting the bag more :^)

Also cus your movement engrams for punching are underdeveloped and so movements will be jerky imprecise and inefficient until the brain builds up a better 'world' for those movements which also means also more practice also.

 

[AndyMaBobs]

Train more punching. Yes i known. Its the boring answer. But its the only correct one.

Punch more. Round after rounds. As many as you can.

Time and dedication will take care of the rest.

Now back to work.

This ^

A lot of the time the answers a lot more simple than you think for

 

[Fire of Youth]

I am surprised that no one has suggested looking at your technique yet. Do you primarily arm punch? If so, your arms are shouldering most of the work. I find that my legs and glutes gas way before my arms. If you have a stronger emphasis on your foot/leg work and support it with strong structure, then your arms don't have to work so hard. Maybe this is something you and your coach could have a look at.

 

[panamaican]

Punch more is the only real answer. Muscular strength and muscular endurance are not the same thing and they require different training focuses. And muscular endurance is not the same thing as cardiovascular endurance.

If your arms/shoulders are getting tired in the early rounds it's muscular endurance. You're not used to maintaining that level of activity over that long a period of time at that intensity.

Relax more, more effective technique all matter but muscular endurance is at the root of it.