A short instructional boxing demo that explains physical and cognitive benefits (cardio, core strength, balance, flexibility, joint health, and brain health including dementia/Parkinson’s prevention) and walks through basic equipment and punching drills: jabs, straights, crosses/hooks, uppercuts, six-punch combos, and movement-based practice. The speaker emphasizes memory and coordination by calling punch sequences and recommends short 15–20 minute workouts for general fitness.
We're going to be talking about boxing and the benefits of that particular sport. Today we have Christy and she is our boxing model of the day. And so we're going to be demonstrating a few things. But first, here's some of the cool benefits. Number one, cardiovascular endurance. You have number two, strengthen the body and the core. Number three, enhanced balance and coordination. Number four, promotes flexibility, promotes joint health. You can teach from children all the way up to 95 year olds can box. And it keeps the mind agile, preventing dementia and Parkinson's. One of the number one Parkinson's training classes is boxing. We're going to have our gloves here. So these are hit mitts. So this is the targets that we're going to use today. And you see how they just slide on your hands. What we're going to do today is this is the jab hand and this is the straight, right? So we're going to do five jabs here. But you try to extend that jab out and recoil it back. Extend and recoil. One, two, three, four, five. And then throw your right. There you go. One. So that's a five and one. Let's do it fast. Here we go. One, two, three, Four, five. One. Do it again. One, two, three, 4, five. One. One, two, three, fourth, five. One. How you like that? So that's a one, two. Now we're going to do crosses hook. So you throw your whole arm across. And these are the punches designed to kind of come in close and hit somebody in the ribs. If you were really boxing, you're going to come on Christy across your body. So there's your strike. Pull. Let's go in slow motion for a second there, There. Yep. And now you speed that up. Let's do 40. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17. And out come uppercuts. So our hands are open, facing the ceiling. The target's going to be here, so you're going to go up and then up, uppercut, go. And boom. So there's your six punch count. So if we put them all together, we're going to go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. This is part of the brain benefit is now you have to remember, as we work on our skills, punch counts. And so I may go. Give me a 1, 3 and a 6. And give me a 2, a 4 and a 6. And so then your brain has to think. Then we move in circles while we're doing this, or we can back up together or I can come forward together. So now you do one twos with me. One, two, one, two. Just straight ahead. Just straight ahead. Yeah. Yep. Just one, two. Walk this way. There we go. Now watch. Now you get fed. I'm going to back you up. 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6. There you go. So we could go on and on with this. It's so much fun. But a good 15 or 20 minute workout. You can see how you hit your breath. Yes, you're having to crouch, you're working on your core strength and you saw in the movie Rocky, Rocky at the beginning couldn't run up the stairs very well and near the end he trained and ran every morning at 5am so boxing is a cardiovascular gym and if you're not really using it, then buy you some $45 little kit here, find your neighbor, partner, your spouse and get to it. Boxing is.
