Strong people do not like to reveal their secrets, and, as a result, on how to increase the power of punching, you can find very little useful information. In particular, it is usually written that the strike cannot be delivered on its own and that training is necessary with an experienced fighter or trainer who knows exactly what he is doing. We decided to correct this injustice and systematize all the knowledge a beginner needs in order to understand how to increase the power of punching. We read further and absorb knowledge!
How to increase the power of punch: characteristics
What are shock indicators and how to develop them? To put it bluntly, without embellishment about Shao-Lin masters, then all the fighting characteristics and exercises for a strike can be divided into three indicators: speed, strength and technique. Next, we list the various exercises with which you can develop each of them.
Speed
The best exercises for impact speed were developed by boxers a century ago: you take 5-10 kg dumbbells in each hand and start sparring with a shadow, conducting and
combining the same beats in your usual rhythm. Within a minute you will feel how all your muscles ache from fatigue, but do not stop: by doing so you kill three birds with one stone. On the one hand, you strengthen your muscles and make them stronger, on the other hand, you increase endurance, accustoming them to endure long loads, and, in the end, in a training without weight, you will feel that you have become noticeably faster in movement.
Tip: Another very interesting exercise from Wushu fighters. Fight with the shadow in the pool, under water. The speed of your blow depends on the ability of your body to overcome air resistance, and since the density of water is much higher, then, training in such conditions, you will become much faster.
Strength
Oddly enough, how to increase the power of a punch in a real battle can be found in the textbook on anatomy. What is power? This is the mass times acceleration. Accordingly, if you work on speed, then you only need to work on your weight and thereby increase the strength of your blow. Try to gain more muscle mass: work with large weights in heavy basic exercises.
Another secret of how to increase the force of impact with a fist is hidden in the density of the impact surface. For these purposes (to increase the density) various brass knuckles are used, and also, which is a more effective and honest way, they fill the surface of the fist, aligning the knuckles, which turns the fist into a real hammer. For the same purpose, you can simply push up from the floor from a rack on his fists.
Technics
The correct technique for performing a strike is 50% of its strength. After all, a well-placed strike originates in the heel of the foot, opposite the striking arm, and only then, accumulating the inertial strength of the legs, back, torso and arm, comes out at the striking point of the fist. By the way, that’s why it’s much more efficient to use an open palm for impact (one bone connection is involved in the strike) than even a well-filled fist, because in the second case more than 30 bone joints are involved in the strike, which is not only extremely traumatic, but also extinguishes about 20-25 % impact force.