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Boxing 101: Power Punching: Build Better Mechanics, Set Up Heavy Shots, Attack the Body, Finish Combinations, and Avoid the Slugger's Biggest Mistakes
Paperback
Series: Boxing 101
BoxingGeneral FitnessMartial Arts
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 26 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Punching power is not created by swinging as hard as possible. Effective force comes from balance, timing, coordination, leverage, weight transfer, target selection, relaxation, and the ability to land when an opponent is unprepared. Even naturally powerful athletes lose force when they load up, overreach, tense their shoulders, or sacrifice position.
Boxing 101: Power Punching explains the mechanics behind heavy jabs, crosses, hooks, uppercuts, overhands, and body punches-so you hit with more effective force while staying balanced, accurate, and defensively responsible.
Inside this step-by-step training manual, you will learn how to:
- Redefine power as repeatable force transfer-not wild swinging
- Build a stable power platform through stance, base, and balance
- Sequence the kinetic chain from the floor through hips, torso, and fist
- Stay relaxed to accelerate, then tighten at impact and recover immediately
- Train power mechanics for jabs, crosses, hooks, uppercuts, overhands, and shovel hooks
- Generate power in motion and after defense-without planting excessively
- Set up heavy shots with jabs, feints, level changes, angles, and counters
- Attack the body safely and connect body-head combinations
- Finish combinations with accuracy while preserving defensive position
- Use strength and conditioning that supports boxing power without risky shortcuts
- Avoid common slugger mistakes that waste force and open you up
- Follow an eight-week power-development training program
Whether you are a beginner-to-intermediate boxer, a coach teaching safer mechanics, a smaller athlete maximizing force, or a naturally strong puncher who needs better control, this book turns raw intent into efficient, trainable power.
Train the sequence. Time the shot. Hit with purpose.
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