3 Ways to Breathe in Boxing to Train Better
Breathing is one of the most important things in boxing. If you do not breathe properly, your punches will be weaker, you will move …
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May 21, 2025
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Breathing is one of the most important things in boxing. If you do not breathe properly, your punches will be weaker, you will move …
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Great stuff.
I was told focus on exhaling as you only use about 6% of what you breathe in. Concentrate on exhaling to evacuate the carbon dioxide. (The air that we inhale contains around 21% oxygen. This oxygen is used by the body for respiration and therefore the exhaled has less percentage of oxygen (13.6% to 16%).
Between bouts or if under stress, recalibrate with hold for four seconds, breathe in for for four seconds, hold for four and breathe out for four – all this for four times.
This applies to soooo many sports and yet it’s rarely ever mentioned, just taken for granted that everyone knows how to breathe properly. Well I didn’t! Becoming more focused on doing this correctly is definitely improving my performance in a whole load of sports, including boxing! Cheers Tony, great stuff as always!
I honestly should send you 50$ a month for all the boxing info. Your channel coupled with my boxing gym = value for money! Thanks Tony!
Do not eat corpses.
Destroy the TV.
Hi, i love your great informative channel, my coach used to say to me breath also when you slip, duck and roll , not just when you punch ( for some reason i was holding my breath whilst doing them !)
Great tip! #4 is why I always lose breath after a round or two, even though I can run many kilometers the other day.
Great post!! I use a slightly different system for my boxers. In between rounds I have them first to exhale 3-4 times just to get rid of the carbon dioxide that have been built up during the round. (they do that usually when the walking back to the corner) . After that they breathe in with the nose and out with the mouth. Deep breath. First you fill the stomach and then your chest. One imortant thing is not to raise your shoulders when doing this. Then your breath usually get stuck in the chest. After maybe 20-30 sekonds they start to breath with just the nose. Before that have reched this stage they get no instructions, their foucus is to be able to calm down the breath, breathing just breath with the nose. Im not saying this is the correct way, but its working good for us.
I noticed if you inhale instead of exhale as u strike the bag you gain more power in your strikes
My knuckles have been hurting for the past month every time I’m on the heavy bag.
Not sure what’s causing it
Tony, When are we supposed to take the NAD+ before each training ? And how many hours before?
Please stop introduce yourself in every videos we tierd of hearing that you are olampic champion please
Exhale on every punch, even through combinations?
That's insane.
It forces you to inhale between every single punch, good luck not hyperventilating nor inhaling through your mouth.
I find it much easier and practical to exhale and inhale in steps: exhale in 4 punches, inhale in EITHER the next 4 punches or the pause if you have one.
I can go for 9 rounds tops and do 10 prison burpees in between rounds, someone might say I'm doing something right.
But I sure ain't Olympic finalist, so there must be something I'm not getting here right.
Maybe Tony means SHORT exhales (taking you say 4 punches to fully exhale and thus start inhaling)?
That would make much more sense
Love ur videos man they have really helped me a lot throughout the years. But do u know anything about punching paper drill. Idk, it’s something I heard about but never really understood it
Hey Tony! I want to learn Boxing but there aren't any boxing gyms near me. Do you think it's possible to learn the basic footwork and technique while practicing at home? Maybe like 1 hour everyday.
I'm unsure if it'll even do anything or if it'll create a habit of bad technique which will be hard to overcome once I join an actual boxing gym
Outstanding information,thank you Mr Jeffries
Excellent advice so important Tony
Another great video full of amazing tips 👌
Yes another video to study and be very usefull in practicing heavybag training. Breathing better actually can make you train much longer and when doing this right the punchingpower left by the end of your trainingsession will amaze you. No joke!👍🏻
Offtopic: Tony did you hear about the strong rumours about Jake Paul not wanting to fight Mike Tyson anymore?
Since you know many people in the boxingworld your answer matters more to me then a rumour.
Do you believe in rotating the jab till the thumb is slightly down or rotating until the palm is flat?
This is similar to what special forces operators use en route to certain training evolutions, missions…whenever they need to be at their mental and physical best. One of the names used for it is "Combat Tactical Breathing" of which is designed to calm down the part of the brain where our fight, flight, or freeze response comes from — the amygdala.
Without mastering these techniques, just like Tony said, you're adrenaline and cortisol will take over, exhaust you, slow you down, make you feel like your body is cast in concrete, you'll become sloppy, weak, won't be able to think clearly or be present in the moment like you need to…and it'll just snowball from there.
Thank you for covering this important topic.
Tony can i call you my coach ? i hope you wouldn't mind it you always come up with videos i am needed about 💪🏻
I started self training a few months ago and your videos have helped me improve drastically. Not a single other channel has given information as useful as the information you give. Thanks a million Tony🙏🏼
I hope to become as skilled of a fighter as you one day,
I started self training a few months ago and your videos have helped me improve drastically. Not a single other channel has given information as useful as the information you give. Thanks a million Tony🙏🏼
I hope to become as skilled of a fighter as you one day,
MAN I LOVE SOO MUCH 😍
champ what the fuck is going on in your instagram comment sections😭
So the info I was looking for is in another video? I diddn't get what happn…
more people watched this video and the video has only 1k of like why?
it is imposible so we have to support this channel like, subscribe, and share the videos of this channel.
please.
Are you in Australia?
This gym looks familiar ! I painted the artwork in there for my good friend. Great to see you back in Perth mate 👊
I found that, for me, breathing through the nose, really changed everything.
Very nice video ❤❤❤❤❤
My coach definitely talks about #1 and #2!
I just started boxing at 40, and I am so glad I found this channel. I'm learning so fast because of Tony's tips.
That is some brutal hair at the 4:20 mark. I had a flattop mullet about the same time period lol.
I really needed this six months ago. It took me a year to really be able to breathe by habit while boxing
NMN? The rapper?
I love your content, could you please do a video were you show the best boxing gloves for beginners?!
نريد فيديو على طريقة اللكمة الصحيحة لماكينة البوكس 🥊
We want a video on how to punch the box machine correctly 🥊
نريد فيديو على طريقة اللكمة الصحيحة لماكينة البوكس 🥊
We want a video on how to punch the box machine correctly 🥊
نريد فيديو على طريقة اللكمة الصحيحة لماكينة البوكس 🥊
We want a video on how to punch the box machine correctly 🥊
I’m about to have unlimited stamina now ahahah 😎
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So flexed muscles increase caloric usage too
I actually wanted to look up a video to see if I was breathing right, and luckily you posted just in time.
I barely just started boxing to help with cardio but I’m hoping to get better!
Wish you had more videos on head movement
you might want to have a look at the research from buteyko and patrick mcowen (sp?)
This video came in at just the right time. I get tired pretty easily, granted I’m currently 300 Ibs so I’m pretty fat, working on it, but this is something I needed to learn for my sparring sessions. Thanks for posting this brother!
Dude made a whole video about breathing
I find by performing the Wim Hof breathing technique for 5 minutes before sparring or hitting the bag increases my performance hugely. It’s been a game changer.