Here is why is not a great idea to put on a pair of boxing gloves without wrapping your hands before you start hitting the heavy bag. You are giving your hands no protection and accelerate the chances of getting injured. You might have tried to work on heavy bag a few times and feels good but like everything in life, good things don’t last too long. You will likely get injured in time to come.
Report about injuries by National Library of Medicine. 
Your Wrist is neglected everyday
Let’s be honest with ourselves here, no one who I know take care of wrist or even warm up that part of our body for any use. Wrist is one of the few joints in our body that can be move 360degree which also means it is how you can grab your favourite cup of coffee every morning. Me and you both forget about this little part of our body, we pay no attention to it at all. Wrist injuries are among common injuries that boxers suffer from. It’s already proven by National Library Medicine. You definitely want to make sure it has the best protection and start including warm up for these babies. Exactly like a baby, time to make sure you to take care of it.
Easy warm up your wrist
- Place both your palms together, rotate your hands in a slow manner clockwise 10 times and rotate anti clockwise the other way.
- Do the same for each individual hands
- This next warm up you need to place your wrist on a flat surface, move your body right to left and make sure your wrist if facing one another. If you can’t face them together, turn it as far as you can and move your body right to left. Do 20reps altogether.
What do you protect your wrist with…
A pair of hand wrap. Now don’t get me wrong, when it comes to boxing nothing can fully protect you from the blow you going to get from a punch or giving one but your hand wrap give you the best support and alignment for your wrist when you punch. This is one of the reason why I would take time to wrapping my hands before I put on pair of my gloves. I still can’t keep my head wrap the idea of skipping wearing a hand wrap and put in the pair of gloves.
Prevention is always better than any cure
Here is one of many ways wrap your hands
My way is not the “best” way to do it but This is why YouTube exist. Countless videos of how to do anything. We are fortunate to be living in this era, you don’t have to go anywhere to learn something. Let’s “wrap” it up here and post a comment how well you did with your hand wrap. “Protect yourself at all time” and get a pair of handwrap here.