Designed for beginner Personal Trainers, the following guide provides a base from which personal trainers can form a fitness based boxing session, or parts of which can be applied to other routines (eg: the P.T. might use the boxing warm up as the entire boxing portion of a beginners workout).

A beginner who has never done any boxing before will find boxing very demanding. This will mean, for many, the boxing wam up may be the only form of boxing that is used for a few weeks (until they build and get confortable with the format and style). Each exercise should be done for around 20-30 seconds. If you have two trainers, one is on the pads, the other on gloves. If you are the trainer and the client is one out, make sure you give them appropriate rest, from warm up to build up.

After the clients muscles have been warmed, they need to be prepared for the intense work that may be following (here is where you awareness of punching style, wrapping etc, become important). For many novice and intermediate trainers, the warm up and build up may be their entire session.

INSTRUCTION BY CALL: Here the instructor makes a call to which his group respond. This could be broken into rounds (eg: 3 x 2 minute rounds). Establish a drill (as mentioned above) and other variables. Then you simply start yelling. Calls could include: 2 punches, 4 punches, 8 punches, 40 fast punches, drill, run to the cone and back, drop and give me 10 sit ups etc.

Below is an example of how a boxing session could come into a final format. The following session has other cardio mixed in so the standard cardio warm up / build up rules still apply. This particular session can be very demanding depending on rest permitted etc. Simply devise a format suited to the client.

This page is an intro to give those in need a basic understanding of possible session formatting. One of the most important aspects of boxing and padwork is technique. Putting technique work into a session is a great way to allow recovery, and is essential for the beginner. As Fit Aussie grows more examples and explainations will be provided. In the mean time I hope this format helps - and remember variety is the spice of life. When you have a base format worked out throw in as many fun variables as you can (eg: skipping, shadow boxing, timed punching, mocked scenerios etc). Stay tuned, these and many other variables will be available soon.