Boxing Training
In our boxing training sessions at Gymnase, located in Mile-Ex (Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie in Montreal), immerse yourself in the world of boxing in an inclusive and welcoming environment where everyone can find their place. Our sessions combine boxing exercises with bodyweight strength training, organized in strategic intervals to maximize effort and results. You’ll learn essential boxing techniques, from jabs to hooks, while enhancing your fitness, stamina, and cardiovascular capabilities.
Classes are suited to beginners and intermediates, with personalized guidance to ensure steady progress, no matter your starting level. Each session is carefully structured and constantly refreshed, so you can fully release energy while working your whole body.
Discover a dynamic way to exercise, increase your strength, and unleash your energy in a motivating and friendly setting.
Class structure
In each session, you’ll use equipment like gloves, pads, a punching bag, and a skipping rope to refine the basics of boxing. As you progress through the exercises, you’ll learn essential combinations, including jabs, hooks, straights, and uppercuts. These boxing moves are integrated into varied sequences that combine striking techniques, positioning, and body movements to work on power, speed, and precision.
Every class is designed to offer variety and avoid monotony, with a constantly renewed mix of exercises. Your experienced instructor is there to guide and encourage you, allowing you to progress at your own pace in a safe and supportive environment.
Benefits of boxing
Boxing is much more than just a physical workout—it provides a range of benefits for both body and mind.
Improved Cardiovascular Endurance:
Each boxing session increases your lung capacity and strengthens your heart, promoting better endurance. Dynamic exercises, like quick punch combinations and bodyweight exercises, demand high stamina.
Over time, this training supports better blood circulation, strengthens your heart muscle, and improves your lungs’ capacity to deliver oxygen to your muscles. The result? You gain not only endurance in class but also experience more energy and vitality in daily life, reducing fatigue and even making simple activities like climbing stairs or jogging easier.
Full-Body Strengthening:
Unlike isolated strength exercises, boxing engages multiple muscle groups simultaneously, ensuring balanced and comprehensive body strengthening. Boxing moves like jabs, hooks, and uppercuts primarily target your arms, shoulders, and back while engaging the abs for core stability.
Additional bodyweight exercises, such as squats, push-ups, and lunges, work your legs and core, boosting power and balance. This full-body workout enhances functional strength, which you’ll feel in everyday movements and promotes a stronger, more upright posture.
Mastering Boxing Techniques:
Learning the fundamentals of boxing helps you master precise and powerful movements. These techniques require coordination, distance management, timing, and proper positioning for maximum effectiveness.
This practice helps you build self-discipline and confidence as you learn to control your movements and execute each strike with skill. Additionally, boxing teaches you to stay calm and in control under pressure, a valuable skill both in training and in everyday life.
Stress Relief and Mental Well-Being:
Boxing training is an excellent way to release built-up tension and stress, offering both physical and mental release. Each hit against the pads or bag lets you release pent-up energy and channel stress into something positive.
This physical release is often accompanied by a sense of relaxation and satisfaction, as physical activity stimulates the production of endorphins, the happiness hormones. By letting off steam, you experience a genuine emotional release that can improve your mood and mental well-being over time. It’s an effective way to unwind and reconnect with a sense of calm and mental clarity.
Enhanced Coordination and Responsiveness:
Boxing requires close coordination between your eyes and hands, as well as quick synchronization of movements to anticipate and execute each punch. By working on these skills, you improve your reflexes, agility, and response time, valuable assets in many situations.
This practice develops your ability to stay focused and alert in the face of fast, unexpected movements, strengthening both mental and physical awareness. Over time, these skills become second nature, and you’ll notice improvements in agility and responsiveness that benefit not only your sport but also your daily life.
Boxing classes in Montreal
At Gymnase, located in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, our boxing classes break down basic techniques that engage strength, agility, cardio, and coordination.
With diverse, dynamic sessions, we create a welcoming environment for all levels, allowing everyone to progress at their own pace. Our qualified coach helps you refine your techniques while encouraging you to push your limits in every session.
Additionally, our training center is easily accessible by public transit, and we offer flexible packages to suit your needs, including a free trial session to experience the training commitment-free.
Good to know about the boxing class at Gymnase:
Classes offered Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
Class duration: 60 minutes
You'll need a towel and a bottle of water.
All other accessories (gloves, pads) will be provided.