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My name is Brock Armstrong and I am the Get Fit Guy.

If you type the words fitness boxing into your search engine, whichever one you choose,

you may be dazzled by the vast array of gyms that provide this type of class.

But do boxing workouts work? Are they effective? Well, today I go undercover at a gym called

nine round to find out. Okay, let me start with this. With all the mounting evidence on how

impactful and impact to the head can be on

our health and well-being, well, there is no way that I would ever recommend that any of you

put yourself in the danger of getting hit. But with gyms like nine round popping up around the

world, well, there's no chance of you actually

getting into a ring, let alone taking any punches. So, I feel confident including boxing

workouts in my fitness toolkit. So, okay, with that out of the way, when a listener named Morgan

called the Get Fit Guy hotline and asked about boxing workouts, I was excited to dig in.

Let's hear what Morgan had to say. Hi, Brock. I had a question about boxing. Can you get fit by doing

a boxing type of class? I really enjoy them, but are there enough to really do anything to get me

fit? Thanks. All right, that is a great question. So let's take a look.

The genre known as fitness boxing is simply an adaptation of the movements from the sport

that most of us associate with a fellow named Rocky.

Personal trainers and fitness entrepreneurs alike have taken many elements of boxing, both the punching

part and the general fitness part, and blended them into an exercise routine that we can all do.

And in a nutshell, these workouts use things like heavy bags, boxing gloves, and other

boxing and kickboxing gear combined with aerobic and resistance training exercises

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