5 Best Kickboxing Drills

If you are interested in getting into kickboxing, then a good place to start is these 5 best kickboxing drills. By practicing these drills religiously, you will not only condition your muscles for the grueling workouts involved in kickboxing, but will also develop a better technique to make sure that you win plenty of matches.

1. Punching With Weights. The first kickboxing drill to learn is one to develop your upper body by punching with ten pound dumbells. This specific upper body training drill will improve your strength. The drill involves doing three or four repetitions of punches while holding ten pound dumbbells. Make sure to put power in the hits without worrying too much about speed. As you get better you will see yourself gaining strength making your punching in the ring that much better. As you get better and the drill gets easier, pump up the weight of the dumbbells by five or ten pounds.
2. One-two Style Punching. This upper body drill will improve your speed by having you hitting the punching bag repeatedly, in a "one-two" style. By simply punching a punching bag repeatedly, about ten reps per hand per set, you will become a much more agile hitter. This will allow you not only to be faster, but also in more control of your punches. If you are more in control of your punches, you will be able to plan and execute your strikes much more efficiently.
3. Kicking The Punching Bag. Now you will want to focus on the strength of your lower body by simply kicking the punching bag, being sure to focus as much force as possible into the kick. To do this drill, you will need a punching bag. It is the same basic concept as the upper body strength drill, being low, drawn out reps. Since you probably don’t want to use ankle weights, you can simply focus all of your power into kicking the punching bag. Try to see how far away you can move the bag when you kick it and try and improve this distance.
4. Swift Kicks. Now you can focus on control and speed of your legs by doing some "swift kicks" on the punching. The best way to do this is to do squats and balancing exercises for a kickboxing drill replacement. This may seem girly, but as stated earlier, squats, at low weight and many reps, will increase the speed of your legs. The balancing drills will make you much better on your feet and less likely to fall.
5. Cardio. The final drill you will want to perform will help out your endurance by doing cardio. Running, treadmill, walking, biking, elliptical; all of these are great drills to get your heart rate up and running and keep you in the ring. Try to establish a steady pace and continue it for at least twenty minutes.