Ten reasons you should try Boxing

Ten reasons you should try Boxing

Ten reasons you should try Boxing at the Bank

If you're interested in our Boxing program at Kings please check out our Boxing Page

1: Boxing makes your confidence soar

Confidence is the key to getting anywhere in life. If you don’t believe in yourself, then why should anyone else? If hitting the weights makes you feel strong, wait until you know that your fists can defend you.

Building confidence is a good reason to box

Lifting makes you feel strong. Boxing makes you feel invincible. That confidence—the problem-solvers kind of confidence—can’t be gained any other way than learning how to fight. Facing and overcoming adversity is the building block for Confidence. Each time when you step in the Academy or the Ring or to Box you are building resilience and overcoming adversity. This is undeniable for building confidence!

Who wouldn't want more confidence to face and overcome all the obstacles in life?

2: Boxing teaches you to manage your adrenaline

This is the difference between people who shine in high-pressure situations and those who crumble. Adrenaline causes you to experience the “fight or flight” feeling a.k.a. “butterflies.” Every boxer experiences this feeling before every fight, new fighters think it's fear, experienced fighters know it's not. Every student faces this when they spar or when they are presented with a new combination to peform.

Boxers still perform because we’ve learned to act in spite of it. The difference between a new boxer and one with experience is adrenaline management or fear control. Once we understand that it's adrenaline and not fear that flips our stomach we can focus on the task at hand. Adrenaline is there to help us achieve whatever we need to do. When we can focus and control that adrenaline we are capable of achieving more than we thought possible

This prevents a Boxer from tiring quickly. Adrenaline control in a fight crosses over into adrenaline control in reality. So when you face that adrenaline dump in life you know it's just your body getting ready to face your obstacles and overcome them!

3: Boxing teaches you that pain can be overcome

Here’s a little-known secret outside of boxing circles: everything in boxing is painful. Unless victory is achieved by a devastating knockout, you’ll sustain quite a bit of pain even if you win. The pain of exhaustion, the pain of contact, the pain of pushing through your limits you never thought possible.

This is because a boxing is a sport where the obstacle we are trying to overcome is trying to overcome us. But Rocky said it best:

“It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!”

The training in boxing is extremely grueling and rough. You will experience tremendous pain just getting in fighting shape.

It’s painful to train, painful to compete, but the glory is all yours. Whether your goal is to get fit, lose weight or win titles pushing through the pain will help you achieve that! Once you have done that nothing is unachieveable!

4: Boxing gets you in great athletic condition

Boxing training is both anaerobic and aerobic. It is explosive and endurance based. It is fast and it is slow.

You can burn tremendous calories hitting the heavy bag, hitting pads, doing partner drills and sparring. If you compete—and I recommend every person compete in a boxing match at least once—the training will turn you into a beast. There are so many different ways to build skills that also translate into building fitness. Then add on to that all the skipping and running you'll do and you'll never look back.

Getting in shape is a great reason to box.

5: Boxing teaches discipline

It’s impossible to get good at anything without practice. It's impossible to get good without regular, consistent practice. It's impossible to be consistent without routine. Routine cannot be developed without discipline.

You can fool yourself about how often you run or go to the gym, but fight night tells no lies. Unless you want to suffer the pain of embarrassment, you train hard every day. You push yourself throught the pain, you run through your obstacles, you overcome your doubts, and you do this with commitment and discipline.

If you can handle boxing training, you can become whatever you want.

Between the technical training, mental concentration, toughness and physical conditioning, there is no room for laziness or non-commitment.

The discipline you develop in boxing can be applied to everything and anything you do in life.

6: Boxing teaches you how to have fun

There’s nothing more enjoyable than slugging it out for a few rounds, whether it's on the heavy bag, focus mitts, boxing sticks or your training partner.

It’s great stress relief and you’re getting in shape. Boxing is also the first time many people are objectively judged. This assessment gives them a goal and a challenge to overcome. It shows them what they are capable of. It also introduces them to other people who are driving through the same experience allowing you to develop friendships and bonds that last.

It's a great way to get out the days frustrations. It's a great way to knock out angst and anxiety. It's great way to forget about the problems daily life brings, because while you're throwing around the leather and leaking sweat there's no time to think about anything other than what is right in front of you now. And there's no way you can't enjoy that!

There aren’t many things which challenge you like boxing. When you find something challenging, you have to stick with it because overcoming challenges is key to happiness.

7: Boxing teaches patience

The coach always says: “Bad things happen quickly. Good things tend to take a little longer.” All progress takes time. If you want things to happen quickly, you won’t last long in training.

Boxing weeds out people who expect quick fixes. Boxing is about the long haul. Success is built upon layers of hard work and that requires patience.

At first you'll struggle with hitting pads, then with making combinations work, then lasting through the rounds, then learning to spar, then landing your punches and it keeps going. But as you put in the time, show patience, success will come to you. Each time you succeed you'll be motivated to aim for the next goal. As you realise hard work pays off, the patience will be there. Once you understand that principle, nothing in life is out of reach.

You’ll have to prove your worth and that will take time.

8: Boxing teaches humility

The only way to get better at this sport is to suffer. The first time you try and hit pads you'll feel foolish. The first time you try and land a punch you'll feel awkward. But if you want to suceed you'll have to accept that you don't know everything, that you can't do everything and you'll definitely learn that there are those that are better than you. This builds humility in life.

You’ll suffer through running. You’ll suffer through sparring. Eventually, you’ll lose a fight in front of a crowd. It will be extremely embarrassing. But once you realise that your team is there for you regardless of the result. You'll realise that it's a lesson and not a loss. And that's a great way for you understand humility is important because if you just go out and do your best you'll eventually achieve it.

But if you commit to the sport, you will not only get past these difficulties but you will become a better person. There’s nothing like a black eye, bloody nose, and sore ribs to make you humble.

Tasting humility is a great reason to box.

9: Boxing reminds you of your mortality

I know every time you step in the Academy or especially the Ring you'll feel the pain of exhaustion, the mental pain of overcoming the diffcult and the pain of leather on skin. The toughness needed to fight also exposes you to the fragility of human life.

You learn how easy it is to harm a human being. You develop a newfound respect for people and empathy for their pain.

This is not to say that one develops a tolerance for weakness in others. Rather, what is gained is a profound appreciation for the body’s ability to persist against difficulty.

You appreciate the mental fortitude required to continue in the face of pain. You realise how much it means to overcome difficulty. It also makes you realise the effort you put in now, pays off later!

10: Boxing teaches you the true meaning of fear And how to deal with it.

Once you fight a man who is trained to hurt you, the rest of your fears seem small in the comparison. I once heard this phenomenon referred to as “drowning out the noise”.

A fighter is always scared before a fight and for good reason. A person is trying to hurt you. He has a good chance of doing it. If he succeeds, it will be in front of everyone.

The two biggest fears people have—dying and public humiliation—are imminent. All fighters experience this, but every weekend they act in spite of it.

Boxing helps build better people. For all the reasons outlined above you'll be a better person for Boxing. You'll be able to achieve more in life, you'll appreciate the things you do achieve and you'll want to keep doing it.

If you're interested in our Boxing program at Kings please check out our Boxing Page

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