HIIT BOXING FITNESS BENEFITS
Besides improving your aerobic and anaerobic capacity, this workout delivers a fist full of fitness benefits. These benefits are achieved by incorporating a diverse range of exercises and training methods.
For example, throughout the workout, you will be skipping, shadowboxing, and shuttle sprinting. To give the cardio system time to recover, you’ll be interchanging between bodyweight and resistance exercises.
In addition to improving metabolic conditioning, transitioning through multiple training methods in quick succession also develops multiple components of fitness. The components of fitness this workout engages include:
Cardiovascular
Muscle endurance
Power
Coordination
Reaction time
Agility
High intensity boxing improves cardio fitness
In addition to being an effective way to improve cardio conditioning, HIIT is also efficient. A Harvard Health article suggests that HIIT can promote cardio fitness quicker than continuous training (long, slow sessions). An associate professor of medicine is quoted as saying that when he substituted steady state for HIIT he lost more body fat and his fitness went through the roof.
By:
Hungry4Fitness
Oct 14, 2022