What Our Boxing Program Is

At our boxing gym in Richmond, you won’t find any intimidating instructors or clients. We pride ourselves on creating a friendly, welcoming environment and our focus is on health and fitness, not brawn.

Boxing is often associated with fighting, but the two are not inextricably linked. Learning boxing techniques involves skill and discipline. Regular boxing training improves not only your body, but your mind as well. Boxing as a sport and boxing as a form of exercise are different.

Boxing Lessons for Weight Loss

You can burn about the same number of calories in an hour-long boxing class as you can jogging for an hour – about 350-500, depending on your level of effort. Our clients love our boxing classes because they're fun – they're dynamic, instructive and provide a satisfying workout.

Additionally, group activities can be so much more motivating than solitary workouts. Many people find running boring, whether it's on a treadmill, track or city street. When you work out in a group, you get to know the other people and you grow along with them over time. Further, group activities help you stay accountable. If you don't show up to class one day, people will notice. If you start to feel tired in the middle of class, you power through because it's harder to walk out of a class than to get off the treadmill.

Boxing lessons give you the kind of motivation you need to stick to your exercise program. The workouts help you lose weight, but they also boost your metabolism to help you burn more calories while you’re sitting at your desk at work.

Boxing Trainers Help You Build Strength & Endurance

Because boxing is a cardio workout, it builds stamina and endurance. With regular boxing training, you will find that you will have more energy. It will be easier to climb stairs and you will no longer get tired quickly when you’re playing with your children or enjoying some alone time with your partner.

Boxing classes technically don’t build muscle because there is no resistance involved, but your body will look leaner and more muscular because you will lose fat. Your muscles will be more defined, and you will notice a difference in your arms, legs and abs.

Boxing Classes Increase Confidence

People today don’t feel confident for many reasons. They might be self-conscious about being overweight, or the opposite – being "too small."" Our society reveres women who are small, but men who are small may be teased or bullied.

However, your lack of self-confidence may have nothing to do with your body. Parents, partners, friends and others can crush self-confidence by making you feel that you aren’t smart enough, you don’t make enough money or you aren’t as successful as others. Many people feel this way every time they scroll through social media. Boxing classes can help. When you see what you can achieve — results you never thought possible — your self-confidence will be renewed. Boxing lessons build courage, determination and spirit.

Boxing Lessons Help You Defend Yourself

The world can be a dangerous place, and knowing how to defend yourself makes it safer. All too often, men in bars or at sporting events can be dragged into a brawl over seemingly nothing. If you’re a woman, you’ll feel safer walking to your car or riding the bus at night once you have taken boxing classes. If you’re nonbinary, you’ll feel safer every time you leave the house if you have some defensive moves up your sleeve.

Boxing classes teach you how to move quickly to avoid allowing your opponent to land a punch. They also teach you how to punch correctly so that you often only have to land one or two good punches before the fight is over.

A boxing trainer can help you feel less afraid when you’re out in the world.

Boxing Programs Improve Your Mental Health

The last couple of years have been difficult for everyone. People have suffered in different ways, but one universally accepted truth is that exercise can improve your mental health. Exercise helps depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and a host of other conditions.

Boxing classes in particular are helpful because they’re aerobic, and aerobic exercise helps release serotonin, a chemical in the brain that promotes feelings of well-being.

Boxing lessons are also useful because they help you express anger and aggression in an acceptable way. If your boss is a tyrant, your family members are toxic, you have health challenges or you lost your job — all these issues can make you feel angry and like the world is against you. It’s natural. Punching and kicking for an hour three times a week does wonders to empty your heart and soul of this anger and pain.

Join Our Boxing Program in Richmond, VA

Are you convinced yet? If not, schedule a visit to our boxing gym in Richmond to see what we’re all about. We’re sure you will love boxing as much as we do!