How to increase strength to have a knock out punch or kick?

Question

I heard that increasing musce size is diffent and difining your body and increasing yur strength is all diffrent things.Wat wait training makes you have each?

Answer 1

The majority of knock out techniques in MA do not require brute strength, they require good timing and placement of your strike in the proper location of your target.

You do not have to have alot of muscle to KO someone, its all about where you hit them and how you hit them and with what force you use.

I hope that makes sense. Increasing your strength is not as important as increasing your timing and your accuracy.

Answer 2

One of the examples I use with my students is what would you rather be hit by-a soft ball going 60 mph or a golf ball going 75 mph. Almost all say a soft ball; even most of the little kids.
While weight training can make your muscles bigger and give you more power that does not always carry over to speed to throw the punch fast enough to hit someone or hit them harder than someone with less power that has more speed. For the best punch you want a good blend of speed and power both as well as technique, timing, and accuracy. Most trainers recommend you lift for speed (high reps, light to medium weight) to give you the best blend of speed and power for punching.

Besides lifting you can also enhance your power by working out on heavy bags of various weights if you are lucky enough to have a place that has more than one to work out with. The heavier the bag the more it helps develop your power while the lighter bags help more to develop your speed.

Answer 3

A knockout punch or kick comes not only from brute strength, but the right technique as well.

You kick or hit the jaw, or the temple for instance, you can knock somebody out, not just hitting the head with enormous force.

Answer 4

That depends on the situation. When you and your opponent are standing, knockout power comes from your legs and hips.

For ground and pound, most of the power comes from your back.

That's why you see guys that don't have defined muscle have awesome standup knockout power like chuck liddell.

All the good ground and pound guys like Rich Franklin or Yushin Okami have a well defined back, like they have wings that can fly.

If you train enough, you'll be able to feel the muscle groups that give you power. Try to get a feel and develop those muscle groups.

Answer 5

It's easier to knock someone out with a series of kicks or punches. It is the strike that the opponent doesn't see that causes the most damage regaardless of the power behind it.

Answer 6

To increase strength, to need to do high weight and low reps of whatever you're doing. If you do low weight and high reps, you just increase your endurance, but you "burn your tires" so to speak. To increase muscle size, take more protein, especially within 30 minutes of working out.

As to knock outs, it's really technique, placement, hitting the "button" (jaw), and your core (abdomen).

Answer 7

Actually, if you want knockout strength, you don't want to build big muscles as you would see them. Often the best knockout guys are the ones with a little weight around their waist, and know how to harness it through hip twisting with their cross straight punch, or even with their hook punches.

Answer 8

The majority of knock out techniques do not require brute strength, they require good timing and placement of your strike in the proper location of your target.

Answer 9

i would shoot for resistant band training. and shadowboxing with "light" dumbbells like 2lbs. to start off with. the dumbbells will build your shoulder endurance. do 3 min rounds of shadowboxing. the resistant bands will help your speed. to build strength i would weight train. but to really help is when you punch DONOT close your fist. keep your hand loose until the last moment upon contact. an then tighten your hand. if you try both punches you will notice keeping your hand loose will make you faster and your punches harder. you want your hand to move like a whip but the impact to feel like getting hit with a cinder block.

Answer 10

technique > physique

not everyone is granted with knock out power
technique will give you that "power" you need, to get that you need to go train, preferably in a mixed martial arts gym or better yet a boxing gym