Work your abs for rotational strength

In sports, all athletes need functional and strong abs: the best way to get it is to train the abs in rotation. Obliques are powerful and essential muscles involved in all rotational movements and they always work in perfect synergy with the abs.

The obliques have also a very important role in stabilization of the core, so the transmission of forces are more effective between the upper and lower body.

Boxers get their knock out punch with a strong, powerful and explosive body rotation starting from the legs. The synchronization has to be perfect and abs and obliques are the critical link to express power.
In the training programs of the boxers I train, I always include the cable woodchop: you rotate and flex your torso, working big time abs and obliques; don’t pull the cable with the arms, use your core to generate the movement.

For a boxer it is essential to do some core exercises in standing position; I strongly recommended it to my listeners a few days ago in my last bootcamp seminar:

“you have to learn how to use your abs in a standing position, in boxing you stand up in front of your opponent, when you are on the canvas, you are in trouble…!”

The message has been caught up, they will now switch the crunches to cable woodchop!
If you do not have a pulley machine, get a resistance cable and do your exercise anywhere, home or outdoor! You are now ready to get the abs like a boxer!

More serious resources for abdominal training:
Abs like stone: abdominal workouts
Bullet-proof Abs

For fitness: Firm and flatten your abs