The Benefits of Boxing for Athletes
Hockey
FitBOX boxing for hockey will help build your confidence, conditioning, foot-work, breathing , fast-twitch muscles, and focusing skills. Boxing coach Tommy McInerney has found that boxing is a great cross-training for male and female hockey players on and off the hockey rink. He will work on your balance and footwork just like you feel like you’re on the ice. Strengthen the core to better your skating and help with the speed of your shot. Work on your hand-eye coordination to better your passing skills. Teach you how to stay relaxed at all times, bend your knees, increase your stamina and teach you how to breathe the correct way. These are the most important things to become a top hockey player. The self-confidence building with Coach Tommy’s boxing training will help you be a lot more aggressive and play with more of an edge to get you to that next level.
Lacrosse
FitBOX boxing for lacrosse will help build your quickness , agility, footwork skills , fast feet , hand-eye- foot coordination and endurance. Boxing coach Tommy McInerney has found that boxing is a great cross-training for male and female lacrosse players on and off the lacrosse field. He will work on your foot work while throwing 120-160 punches a round with the correct form and technique which will also be building those fast-twitch muscles that a lacrosse player uses while taking those accurate passing skills and shots on net. The footwork will help with fast angles and turns while having a stick in your hands to be able to shoot or pass at any time under pressure. The self confidence that will be gained from Coach Tommy’s boxing training will help you have more grit and be a lot more aggressive.
Gymnastics
FitBOX boxing for Gymnastics will help build your confidence, core strength, balance, agility, footwork, upper-body strength. Boxing coach Tommy McInerney has found that boxing is a great cross-training for male and female gymnasts in and out of the gymnasium. He will work on your balance and movement with foot-work drills which will also strengthen your core while throwing punches with the correct form and technique. Will teach you how to stay relaxed, work on your breathing, not think too much and always stay focused. The self-confidence building with Coach Tommy’s boxing training will help you push yourself to know that you will be the best.
Basketball
FitBOX boxing for basketball will help build explosiveness, fast hands, agility, footwork skills, hand-eye-foot coordination, stamina, endurance . Boxing coach Tommy McInerney has found that boxing is a great cross-training for male and female basketball players on and off the court. He will teach you to play small by always bending your knees and feeling a lot more agile at all times on the court. Help you to stay relaxed so you will be able to think faster and react quicker while being under pressure. Boxing will build that hand-eye-foot coordination to make you a sharper player. The self-confidence building with Coach Tommy’s boxing training will make you a lot more explosive and a tougher player.
Golf
FitBOX boxing for Golf will help build a stronger core, faster hip turn, and strengthen your mind to help you stay focused. Boxing coach Tommy McInerney has found that boxing is a great cross-training for male and female golfers at all levels on and off the golf course. He will teach you that the golf swing is the closest movement to how you throw a punch. To throw punch correctly the power is generating from your legs and your hips the same with a golf swing. If you come in and throw 1,000 punches it is the same as hitting 1,000 golf balls at the driving range. Boxing will build those small fast-twitch muscles that you can’t target by just doing weights at the local gym. It will strengthen your core to help you stay aligned while swinging a golf club. The self-confidence building with Coach Tommy’s boxing training will make you a stronger mental player under pressure to help lower that handicap.
Soccer
FitBOX boxing for Soccer will build stamina, speed and agility, fast-feet, balance and angles, breathing the correct way. Boxing coach Tommy McInerney has found that boxing is a great cross-training for male and female soccer players of all levels on and off the soccer field. It will work on your movement and angles, back and forth and side to side while keeping those legs bent. Teach you explosiveness when you attack. Work on your eye-foot coordination to be able to pass or shoot while under pressure. The self-confidence with Coach Tommy’s boxing training will make you a much more aggressive and smart player to help take you to the next level.
Baseball / Softball
FitBOX boxing for Baseball will build hand-eye coordination, core strength, explosiveness, endurance, balance and quickness. Boxing coach Tommy McInerney has found that boxing is a great cross-training for male and female baseball/softball players of all levels on and off the field. The form and technique of a boxer throwing his power punch is a lot similar to the way you throw a baseball and swing the baseball bat. If you throw a 1,000 punches with Coach Tommy it is almost the same as hitting 1,000 balls in a batting cage or throwing 1,000 pitches. Boxing will build that core and leg strength that will generate that power while swinging that bat. The hand-eye coordination will be a lot better for any position played. The footwork drills will better the quickness of your feet to get to the ball to either side. The self-confidence with Coach Tommy’s boxing training will make you a lot smarter and agile baseball player.