Which exercise will help increase punching power?
Punching can be improved by practicing… well, punching. There are different types of punching bags available. Big hanging bags are good for the ‘push effect’ or ‘slow twitch’ punching that’s required for fighting with thick padded gloves. Wall bags and the makiwara mentioned in the previous response are more for ‘contact release’ or ‘fast twitch’ strikes, for bare handed application without gloves. Also the proper wooden dummy of some southern Chinese styles is a good striking practice aid, however that’s usually used to improve open-handed strikes. For speed it’s just striking the air or small bags (on springs/rubber rope). (Slow twitch and fast twitch are muscle types. The first one fires off giving stronger and longer lasting contraction, the second one has faster responses and the contraction last for a shorter time. Push effect and contact release is the type of the strike resulting – what your arm does with the movement energy the muscles gave it.) I would not recommend practic
You have several questions and points to be addressed. Being able to do more or less push ups can be the result of practice, fatigue or training adaptation. You were probably training to be able to do 100 push ups in a row and currently are not. Yoga builds muscular endurance and the slow twitch fibers in the body. It is said that yoga builds long lean muscles. Definitely Yoga does not develop hypertrophy (muscle size increase increase or strength). Good exercises that I use with my Boxer and Kickboxers are power or clap pushups, chest press and alternate arm press with resistance tubing done at punching speed with the most resistance they can handle without dramatically reducing speed in super sets. Medicine Ball throw with 10% of bodyweight in the different directions of the strikes ie: chest pass (straight) Upward(uppercut) rotational sling like a body punch or hook. We also use a small ball 6-12lbs thrown straight against a wall elbow in with good form. All exercises are done in th
