contact, especially with the heavy bag, will have you feeling like you just left the spa.
There’s a hormonal response that comes with boxing, you release endorphins (which happens when you workout no matter the modality) and adrenaline and tension when you hit, and in this case, it’s an inanimate object. You can imagine that bag is anyone in the world, and sometimes I do…45.
Improved Body Composition
Think of boxing as a safer alternative to other high-intensity modalities. While a boxing workout is rarely ever the same as the one before, it still allows your body to move in a way nature intended. You get that muscle confusion that keeps you from reaching your fitness plateau, with a beautiful balance of strength training and calorie-burning cardio. With regular boxing training, you will likely notice a change in your weight and fat mass percentage as you burn fat and build muscle.
Boutique gyms, chains, and classes continue to pop up, so be on the lookout for some great spaces. Below are a few that are founded, owned, co-owned, or managed by members of the black community.
- Detroit’s Downtown Boxing Gym
- Mayweather Boxing + Fitness (not to be confused with Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas, which is not open to the public)
- Crenshaw Boxing Club
- Box Union Santa Monica
- Lb4Lb Boxing Gym
- King’s Boxing Gym (Oakland)
- Aerospace High-Performance Center NY & West Hollywood
- SolBox Fitness Miami
Jasmine Danielle is a Los Angeles based dancer and fitness trainer. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has studied with FiTour, the National Federation of Personal Trainers, and the Equinox Group Fitness Training Institute.
Jasmine is currently a Group Fitness Instructor for Equinox, Everybody Los Angeles, and Sandbox Fitness. Her fitness modalities include, ballet, dance cardio, barre fitness, TRX, treadmill interval training, cardio kickboxing, jump rope, indoor cycling, and metabolic conditioning.