Mental Benefits of Boxing for Doctors
It’s true: once you hit the gym for boxing, it’s going to be harder to give that addiction up. You’ll always crave for it once you stop for a while or when your off-training. The reason for this is the rush and fat-burning effects of having to move every part of your body. With the fast-paced quality of boxing, you barely feel that you’re exerting effort in all the parts of your body. The stress is more on focus and being in the present moment, ready to hit when the circumstances demand you to. Although there are a lot of ways to get into fitness (hitting the gym, going on a healthy MD CME cruise, getting a private instructor), there’s no sport that demands your attention than boxing. Focus: What Happens if You Don’t Pay Attention You get hit. By an imaginary opponent in shadow boxing, by a heavy bag in bagging, by an instructor’s pad or an actual punch from actual sparring. When you don’t focus, you get punished by a memorable blow. I call it a memorable blow because e...