Garnock Valley Amateur Boxing Club offers a superior level of fitness to other sports through a range of gym activities. These activities are varied week-by-week to provide a range of exercises that improve skill, technique and confidence.

The categories below provide details of what happens in the gym.

Warm Up
Before any athlete can begin to perform, they must warm up to prepare their body for exercise. This helps to prevent pulled muscles and gives the body a gentle introduction to heavy physical exercise.
Technique
Learning how to defend is as important as learning to attack. Technique exercises give the boxers
a chance to learn how to use and how to defend against attack.
Skipping
Skipping allows a boxer to exercise his whole body as hard as he needs to. It also improves footwork, an essential part of a boxers technique.
Pad Work
Having a Coach or a Trainer giving one-on-one training tips are bound to improve performance. Pad Word allows a coach to tease the best out of a boxer with verbal commands and strategic advice. Use of pads as targets also sharpen the boxers eye.
Shadow Boxing
Shadow Boxing gives a boxer the opportunity to express themselves as freely as possible. The boxer can practice strategies, defensive and aggressive combinations and footwork to suit any scenario they can think of.
Bag Work
Different Punch bags and speed balls allow a boxer to practice his shots and improve coordination. Bag Work gives a boxer something solid to hit, relieving stress and improving focus.
Sparring
The closest a boxer will come to getting into a boxing ring is sparring. Sparring offers a controlled, protective environment for boxers to learn what they might expect from an opponent.