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Weighted Gear
Adding extra weight to your routine increases the muscular demands and elevates the level of intensity of any workout. Weighted vests, ankle weights, hand weights, and weighted neck strengtheners are designed to hit every body part and take your average workout to the next level.
There are various types of weighted gear you can add to your workout to heighten your workload, gain greater benefits, and get more productivity out of every movement.
One of the most common approaches is to use weighted gloves to increase the difficulty level. Incorporating weighted gloves into your routine strengthens your arms, back, shoulders, and improves your overall punching endurance. By placing greater impact at the end of your punch, wearing weighted gloves instills a feeling of being “heavy-handed,” which carries over into the fight and increases your punching power. Weighted gloves are also more demanding of your muscular and cardiovascular system, simply because every movement you make from your feet on up requires more effort to perform. Moving around the gym or ring, rotating at your core, throwing your punches and bringing them back, all becomes harder than you have become accustomed to. Some weighted gloves have extra weight designed into them, while others have changeable weights, so you can control how much or how little weight you add. After training with weighted gloves for a few rounds, going back to a standard ounce glove will make the rest of your rounds feel easy. That allows you to push yourself harder.
Another piece of weighted gear that is helpful to use are shadow boxing hand weights. Incorporating boxing hand weights into your shadowboxing routine gets you warmed-up faster and adds another level of difficulty to start your workout. They also force you to focus more intently on maintaining proper form when you throw and “shake up” your normal routine, keeping your muscles guessing. The extra weight will help push you to your cardiovascular limits and discover that next gear.
In both cases, with weighted gloves or boxing hand weights, adding more weight to the movements you would already be doing anyway means you get more of everything you train for!
FAQs
Weighted gear provides resistance making it harder for you to move which then increases your strength and stamina making you more explosive.
No, we do not recommend wearing weighted gear in sparring or in competition. You can however wear your gear when hitting mitts, running, hitting a bag, or shadow boxing. These are appropriate times to wear your weighted gear.
Yes, all of our weighted gloves, vests, headgear, and ankle weights come with weight in the item or are shipped with it. You do not have to purchase separately.
This depends on your weight, level of strength and fitness, and your experience. It is important to not use so much weight that you cannot correctly perform your exercise. Too much weight can hurt your technique, cause bad habits, or even damage your muscles and joints. It’s important to use just enough weight to make it harder but not sacrifice your technique.
