Fighting Fit

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Summary: The Ultimate learning book for beginners!
Review: A very good book for beginners, it covers all the moves in boxing, from offensive and defensive moves and how it can be practiced alone against a punching bag. You get pictures demonstrating the moves taken from the side, the back, the front and even from the top!

You should get his first book:
Boxer's Start-Up : A Beginner's Guide to Boxing first thought (more theory is explained for the beginner)

Both books are highly recommended!

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: As the earlier book by the same authors (Boxer's start-up) was an excellent book, I was expecting this to be at least a four-star book. I was badly disappointed, however.

Much of the written material in the book is taken directly from the earlier book, and there is not much text added. Instead, the book relies heavily on photographs. There is nothing wrong with that, per se, but it places high demands on the quality of the pictures. Sadly, the pictures don't fill the expectations. They are not entirely bad, however, as you can see what you are supposed to see from the pictures. But they are far form good quality.

Much of the book is filled with different punch combinations, counters and flow drills. In these pages, there is hardly any text, instead the reader is supposed to study the pictures and learn from them. This is hardly satisfying, and there is a genuine need for exhaustive written instructions. There is also some instructions about stretching, weight training and sparring, but these issues are not given very thorough presentation.

There is some merit to this book, but you need to have a more complete textbook to support the pictures in this book. For one, the book is missing a complete training program, instead the reader (beginner-intermadiate level) is supposed to construct one on his own, based on the limited information given in this book.

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Summary: Best Book Ever Read!
Review: Fighting Fit is Doug Werner best easy to follow book that I know of. It is a re-done of his earlier book Boxer's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Boxing ,but more better photos and words. Gives more information and easy to follow photos of skills. Best to read and look at both book,Boxer's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Boxing and Fighting Fit. You might not understand this book with out the other if you never read Boxer's Start Up?

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Summary: A great workout tool
Review: I am not a boxer but thought it would be fun to learn to use a heavy bag in my workout regime. I wanted to build upper body strength and a friend confirmed that a heavy bag would be a great anaerobic workout that would build strength and stamina.

I bought this book looking for an overview of punches and moves to help me design the heavy bag workout. The book gave me everything that I needed for an effective heavy bag workout. It provides abundant information to get started and includes specific details on how to wrap hands, punch and recovery technique, punch combinations, and punch styles (inside and outside fighting). The book includes heavy bag drills.

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Summary: Awesome with a capital "A"
Review: This book gives me plenty of practical drills. I use with my boxing students, refering to it on a regular basis. If there's a better reference book out there, I haven't seen it. Good job!

Rating:
Summary: Awesome with a capital "A"
Review: This book is a must for boxer's and coach's alike. I use it as a reference book. It will definately add to your routine as a coach or student. If there is a more practical book out there on boxing, I haven't seen it. Good job!!

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Summary: A Good Book
Review: This book is great as a detailed description of boxing technique, both literary and visual. I have recommended this book to people who have technical problems with their style or people who just need to perfect their technique, it covers everything from footwork through to sparring. By far the most detailed do-it-yourself boxing book I've seen to date. Good for beginners. An experienced boxer may find it useful, it's good to read around the subject, but you wont find any advanced discussion, generalship, advanced fight strategy, to the degree that, for instance the Tao of Jeet kune Do, or Ned Beaumont delve into.

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Summary: Fighting Fit
Review: This book is perfect if your looking to enter the sport of boxing, learn some self defence or just get into shape. Easy to to understand and follow, the authors go into detailed description of punches, defense moves, footwork, bag drills, partner drills and sparring drills. The thing that sets this book apart from others though, is all the pictures. Every move or technique described in this book has a picture to go along with it. I have read many boxing techniques and training guides and highly recommend "Fighting Fit" for any amature.

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Summary: Very good beginner's book, just short of 5 stars...
Review: This is a very good beginners boxing book as Doug Werner guides through all the basic 6 punches (jab, straight, left/right hook, left/right uppercut) and proceeds with countless bag and flow drills in a manner that beginners can easily understand and practice. The scope and detail of this book is SIGNIFICANTLY superior to more popular beginner's book "Boxing: The Complete Guide to Training and Fitness" by Danna Scott. I have bought (and gave away) that book due to its lack of details. The large number of photographs in this book is very well selected and helpful.

A few minor gripes that took away one star for me were: (1) Some editting problems such as minor typos and one incorrect description where the author meant left hand, but wrote right hand (which was quite confusing when comparing to the picture). (2) Be careful of a number of photos showing the fist so over-rotated on straight punches that the thumb actually is pointing straight down! I think he was trying to make the fist more visible, but I think it certainly would add confusing to a beginner. Note that at no point does the text indicate the thumb is to point down toward the ground. (3) The weightlifting exercises could have used a few more pictures as the text was somewhat lacking. However, these minor gripes aside, this is the best mass published beginners book out there that I've found and I've looked through about 10+ books.

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Summary: Solid Book but a supplement not subsitute
Review: This is the best book on boxing I've encountered. The author does a good job of explaining technique and providing drills for exercise. However, ANY book on boxing will be inadequate for learning how to box. Good boxing skills can't be learned from a book - just the way you can't learn to dance well from a book. To physically know how to box you need a trainer and you need to get in the ring and spar. To master the techniques, it must feel right. You acquire that feeling by watching your trainer and having him/her correct your mistakes. You have to be physically next to that person (Anyone who's learned to box or dance will tell you this is true). You polish those techniques and gain confidence in using them through sparing. Yet the author does deserve credit for putting out a fine book.