The Boxer’s Workout gives you all the information you need for a safe, enjoyable and technically correct non-contact boxing workout. It also offers proven advice on sparring and competition if you choose to take it to the next level. The book includes over 80 photo-illustrations, including unique multiple exposure photo-illustrations of key punches and moves. Author Peter DePasquale treats you like a friend, presenting the material in digestible amounts that are easy to understand, practice and retain. Throughout the book you’ll also feel the guidance and wisdom of legendary boxing trainers Al Gavin and Bob Jackson, who consulted on the content and helped to carefully choreograph the photo-illustrations.

Click here to read the section of The Boxer's Workout that covers the left hook.

This section explains how a boxer’s non-contact training routine will have you looking and feeling better than you have in years - and perhaps better than you ever have period. It describes the unique physical benefits and whole-body conditioning, the mental toughness that helps in so many other areas of life and the sheer excitement that comes with doing a workout experienced by as diverse a range of people as Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred DuPont, Ernest Hemmingway, John Huston, Bob Hope, Billy Joel, Mickey Rourke, Tony Danza and many more, including a growing number of female boxers.


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Before You Start helps you comfortably ease into the workout and mindset. It describes how to properly precondition by building an aerobic fitness base and practicing the basic punches and moves. It covers mental preparation and the development of the ideal training attitude. It clearly explains roadwork; why it’s important and exactly how and when to do it based on your goals. It makes helpful suggestions on how to sensibly manage your weight – with the emphasis on “sensibly.” It explains the critical importance of a hard-easy approach to training, when and where to train; including the pros and cons of training at home, fitness club and serious boxing gym, how to choose a good trainer (if you’d like a trainer), how to select your equipment and how to properly wrap your hands.


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Essential Punches & Moves combines painstaking photo-illustrations, including multiple exposure photo-illustrations, with crystal clear text to demonstrate ideal boxing technique. It coaches you through the balanced stance; how to move effectively; how to throw key punches including the “almighty” left jab, the straight right, the left hook and the left and right uppercuts; the essential combinations; the key defensive moves including blocking, parrying and slipping; and how to defend opportunistically. It explains the thinking and psychology behind the punches and moves so that you’ll know not just how to do them but why you should do them that way. It describes the three basic boxing styles (infighter, boxer and counter-puncher) and explains how to factor your physical attributes into the development of a personal boxing style that’s ideal for you.


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Boxer’s Workout Circuit clearly explains the tried-and-true boxer’s training circuit experienced by every champion from John L. Sullivan to Lennox Lewis. It describes the ideal activity sequence and suggests beginning, moderate and intensive workout levels that you can tailor to your individual training goals, frequency and location. It covers each component of the workout in detail; clearly demonstrating warm-up and stretches, mirror training, shadowboxing, heavy bag, speed bag, double-end bag, jump rope, medicine ball and midsection routine.


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Sparring & Competition includes simple but essential techniques that will prove invaluable if you choose to take it to the next level. It explains how to approach sparring and ring strategy, set the pace and control the action, recognize and capitalize on your opponent’s tendencies and how to use the “rest” minute between rounds to your greatest advantage. And it includes a simple key to fighting southpaws that even experienced pros often forget under pressure.


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