Get one of those rubber medicine balls about 10 pounds. You want to stand with your feet about shoulder width apart and take the ball above your head with both hands and slam it to the ground as hard as you can, do this for 5 minutes rest a minute and then do this again for two more 5 minute rounds. Lay on your back take the same 10 pound ball balancing the ball on your right hand and throw the ball as high as you can in the air 3 sets of 20. Finally take the medicine ball stand in front of cinder block or concrete wall and stand in your boxing stance and balancing the ball with your left hand with the ball in your right throw the ball at the wall as hard as you can 25x's 4x's You'll be punching harder in no time at all.
Vince remember the key to proper punching and getting maximum power is the rotation of hips and shoulders simultaneously and turning your punches over. Good Luck Vince.
Throw your body behind your punch. Lean into it as you hit
Use your whole body not just your arms.
It's more about kinetic energy, like Newtons Cradle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_cr... ) except with your body.
You don't throw a punch, you push or whip a punch.
What you're thinking while your punching is very important as well.
So pay attention to what you're thinking when you punch.
Think about the result of that punch and what you are trying to accomplish with it and nothing else, but be careful and show some restraint.
You could kill someone or severely injure them. Make sure your mind is disciplined enough to judge which outcome, or result, is sufficient for the situation.
By "gym", do you mean fitness centre, weightlifting place, or an actual boxing club?
The best answer I can give you is to consult a knowledgable boxing instructor to learn "proper", biomechanically efficient punching technique.
For ex, Muhammad Ali, Willie Pep, and Harry Greb were know as quick but light hitting punchers and much of that had to do with the fact that they did not really plant & push off their back legs very much when delivering powerpunches (so that they could be on the balls of their feet for greater mobility) and they did not clench their fists very hard (to maximize hand speed. Ttry to throw a punch wtih your hands clenched as tightly as you can, then somewhat tightly, and then somewhat loosely: the former will be the slowest and lack snap, the middle will pack power, have snap, and be pretty quick, and the latter will be very quick but lack much power; the former is how George Foreman used to punch (slow, heavy handed, "thudding" sort of blows that hurt opponents, but very rarely coldcock them), the middle how Joe Louis and Ray Robinson punched (few boxers possess both very quick hands and kayo power), and the letter the way Ali, Pep, and Greb used to punch.
Clearly, you wanna punch like "The Brown Bomber" and the Sugarman as much as possible, so check out vids of their fights (but, unlike them, keep your hands up! lol). And, to make sure that you're doing it right, have a friend videotape your lessons with the boxing instructor for your future reference AND practice shadowboxing sometimes in front of a full length mirror so you can see what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong.
BTW, if you have trouble turning your hook properly and getting snap on it, don't worry becuz that's the hardest punch to master - and the most effective powerpunch (becuz opponents have the most difficulty seeing that one coming).
Good luck.
What relevance is benching to punching? How do you know you have good form, are you using your legs hips and shoulder rotation? are you getting all of your body behind punches that you throw? Are you being trained by a knowledgeable boxing trainer?
try hitting a heavier bag in the gym,usually they have different weight bags,also speed brings power so work on the the speedbag
I'm 15 and I bench 265, but I feel like I can't punch very hard. My speed and form are good according to people at my gym, but I'm just curious if anyone knows of any exercises/tricks to make you punch harder.
