Does boxing gives you six pack?

Yes! Boxing definitely gives you the six-pack that you have always dream. You might think of boxing as an upper body movement, this is far from the truth. If you look closely at any boxer’s physique development, not only his rock hard abs muscle is the main muscle that caught your attention, take a quick look at his calf.

Boxing make you work every part of your body from head right down to your feet. Boxers move every part of his or her body. More of why it gives you a six-pack and what you can do daily to achieve a more flattering look for your mid section. And if you have not yet achieve, I will explain to you if haven’t got it yet even if you have been boxing for a while.

Mid section

Let me give you a short detail on your “mid section” has muscles called rectus abdonimis, internal obliques, external obliques and transverse abdominis. While you are throwing cross, jabs and hook when boxing, you are rotating your all these abdomen muscles together. Not only these muscles gets stronger but it keeps the spine from “moving”.
Back to how it can give you six-pack. Although, you have worked on those muscle that gets stronger not necessarily your abs is visible. This is because your bodyfat is higher than it needs to be. The main factor that can help your six-pack be visible is your nutrition while you have been boxing.

Abs are made in kitchen

You can be doing endless of sit up, crunches, leg raises and every abs movement when you are in your boxing class but your abs will not be visible if it has a lot fat is sitting on top of it. If you feel dread every time you hear this phrase “you know it is about what you eat so you can get rid of those extra waist line ” I am here to let you know don’t get too caught up with your emotion of disappointment and simply look into making better healthier choices with what you eat.

It will save you a lot of medical problems for your future and you get better results, benefit from your boxing training. My simple principle when it comes to any training, if you have to be doing something physical to your own body you might as well look good. This is another way of saying you benefit a lot from boxing training. Where to begin with nutrition and all how to, I have wrote on my earlier post about how to lose weight with boxing. The post has more detail about nutrition, click here.

Feet

Boxing is more about moving around which teaches you defense. You can’t always stay in one position. It isn’t realistic since boxing is more like dancing with someone in front of you. Even when you are hitting the heavy bag, you still have to move around unless you are working on your jab. Jumping rope is one of the few routine that is need you to use al ot of your feet.

Strength and Conditioning

Other than boxing training, adding in strength and conditoning session would be great for your body overall look. There is big debate on this topic if strength and conditioning should be a part of boxing. I know you might be thinking strength is lifting weights the way a bodybuilder does. It is not the same kind of training.

Exercises such as squat and press, planks, crunches, lunges, bodyweight squats, push up, burpees, deadlift, pull ups and many more that are considered strength and conditoning

Cardio

Any form of cardio can definitely further help with fat loss for your body. By any reason if you have a weak knee you can skip running to swimming or cycling. I recommend jogging if you hate running. I have to admit, I initially hate running but because I compare myself to other experience runners. So I challenge myself and jog 2 rounds of a regular stadium which is 800 metres / 0.5miles on my first day. Now I can easily run 1 mile without like giving up. What I notice is cardio help improve with my digestion and bowel movement.

Maybe you can opt for slow swim and swim a couple of laps on your first day of your cardio. I recommend you try adding something for your cardio even hiking every now and then is considered healthy amount of cardio! Think about how MUCH FASTER your abs will be visible.

Sleep and Recovery

Boxing is physically demanding which means you have put your body to high stress. High stress naturally raises your cortisol. Cortisol is usually blame for those extra fat around your waistline. The amount of hours you sleep is different every night, so whatever hours you sleep won’t not affect you as much as the quality of hours you get. Sleep or recovery helps your repair and heal your internal organs. Recovery treatment like a massage, or using massage guns can help with lymphatic drainage.

Now that I have explained 5 ways you can do so you can abs like a boxer, which one do you think you are likely to do? Comment below