Shadowboxing

 

Shadowboxing is the exercise used in the training or in the preparation for competitions for sports specific warm up.

It is used mainly to prepare the muscles before the person training engages in stronger physical activity.

The main purpose of this exercise, apart from getting the muscles ready for other activity, is usually to maintain a fighter's rhythm and show the fighter how they would look at that stage of training against a certain opponent.

This could be important as fighters envision themselves facing their immediate

future opponents: it usually gives fighters an idea of what is, and what is not, to be fixed.

 

There is the long method shadow boxing, involves shuffles of the feets that rocks the body back and forth. This method combines footwork and distance boxing using more the jabs and straight shots.

The short method shadow boxing sees the fighter move his head and body to the left and right, duck and pendle, constantly slipping punches and moving in for closer body shots in combination with a closer footwork.

 

And so you use your Mobile Boxing Trainer for Shadow boxing:

 

Choose Shadow boxing Olympic or Professional Boxing Mode and select your preferred exercise with 3 min. rounds or 2 min. rounds with 1 min. rest or your own interval in the i3 program - for instance 3 min. rounds with 30 se. rest.
Start directly (if you´re in the trainer only position) or within a preparation period of 10 seconds. Place your mobile phone in a viewing distance (maximum 10 meters) press <enter> to start and you have 10 seconds to prepare and position yourself for precisely timed training sessions and begin shadow boxing with the start signal.

 

Shadowboxing is also a part of a sport specific activity for Cooling-Down. Here you work out with a lower intense workrate and make only 1 or 2 rounds with 1 minute rest.

 

A cool-down is especially important after high intensity exercises with an anaerobic content, such as boxing. Anaerobic exercise results in lactic acid build up in the bloodstream and muscles and a cool-down helps remove these products.