Fighting Fit: Boxing Workouts, Techniques, and Sparring

I'm a soldier currently deployed in Afghanistan (airborne infantry). I ordered the book to try to pick up on a new sport. The pictures and descriptions in the book are very descriptive and very helpful in learning the moves. Although I would consider this a great book for the beginner boxer or someone trying to improve, the lifting section could use alittle more detail. I would also like to see alittle more about nutrition. Other than that, the technique and fundamentals described in this book are excellent.

I am not a boxer but thought it would be fun to learn to use a heavy bag in my workout regime. I wanted to build upper body strength and a friend confirmed that a heavy bag would be a great anaerobic workout that would build strength and stamina.I bought this book looking for an overview of punches and moves to help me design the heavy bag workout. The book gave me everything that I needed for an effective heavy bag workout. It provides abundant information to get started and includes specific details on how to wrap hands, punch and recovery technique, punch combinations, and punch styles (inside and outside fighting). The book includes heavy bag drills.

This is the best book on boxing I've encountered. The author does a good job of explaining technique and providing drills for exercise. However, ANY book on boxing will be inadequate for learning how to box. Good boxing skills can't be learned from a book - just the way you can't learn to dance well from a book. To physically know how to box you need a trainer and you need to get in the ring and spar. To master the techniques, it must feel right. You acquire that feeling by watching your trainer and having him/her correct your mistakes. You have to be physically next to that person (Anyone who's learned to box or dance will tell you this is true). You polish those techniques and gain confidence in using them through sparing. Yet the author does deserve credit for putting out a fine book.

This book is great as a detailed description of boxing technique, both literary and visual. I have recommended this book to people who have technical problems with their style or people who just need to perfect their technique, it covers everything from footwork through to sparring. By far the most detailed do-it-yourself boxing book I've seen to date. Good for beginners. An experienced boxer may find it useful, it's good to read around the subject, but you wont find any advanced discussion, generalship, advanced fight strategy, to the degree that, for instance the Tao of Jeet kune Do, or Ned Beaumont delve into.

This book is a must for boxer's and coach's alike. I use it as a reference book. It will definately add to your routine as a coach or student. If there is a more practical book out there on boxing, I haven't seen it. Good job!!