Shadow Boxing
- Stand tall with a tight core. Keep your gaze straight ahead. Bring your hands up to shoulder level. Make a tight fist with the thumb on the outside of your hand. Do not wrap your fingers around your thumb.
- Begin in a left lead stance. Your left foot should be in front. Your right foot should be behind. Throw a left lead jab by extending your left hand straight out in front of you and immediately retracting.
- Follow up the left jab with a right cross. Twist your foot and drive your right hip forward as you throw a straight punch with your back right hand. Alternate these two punches. Switch sides when finished with the prescribed repetitions.
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Shadow boxing is a at-home work out exercise that targets abs and biceps and shoulders and triceps and also involves calves and glutes & hip flexors and lower back and quadriceps and shoulders and triceps. Refer to the illustration diagram and instructions above for how to perform this exercise correctly. Gymnastic ring support position, close-grip overhand barbell bench press and resistance band tricep kickbacks are related exercise that target the same muscle groups as shadow boxing. Visit our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises to try in your workouts.
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