If you want to work up some strength or stamina when shadow boxing these Lonsdale boxing gloves are quite good.
All the gloves basically are is a pair of leather mitts with a weight stitched into the back of the hand.
This is designed to make your shadow boxing sessions harder and therefore building up strength in your arms and hands so that when it come to real boxing, you throw faster punches and quicker blocks.
When do some shadow boxing I used to hold some 2Kg weights in my hands, to make it more challenging and to build and muscle stamina and hand speed.
That is what these are doing as well. By using these hand mitts you will be slower in shadow boxing sessions but faster in the boxing ring – which is what counts!
They some in the sizes Medium, Large and XL and cost about £16.99.
You may think this is a bit pricey for simply some boxing mitts with weights, but a set of 2 x 2kg dumbbells would cost about £8 and a set of 2 x 1kg would probably cost about £6.
So it costs double the money to have your weight stitched into your boxing gloves. If you are on a budget then you could of course just opt for the weight as they are the cheaper option and they do the same job.
But if you can buy the Lonsdale T11 Shadow Mitts then there is no danger of accidentally letting go of the weight mid way through a punch and sending it smashing through a mirror…as someone at my boxing club did once!
Also with the mitts you can take them jogging or when you are doing sit-ups or any kind of workout, just wearing them will be building up strength.
Boxing Daily Rating: 8.5/10 – These are as good as weights in you hand, but you don’t have to concentrate on holding on to them, allowing to to fully concentrate on your boxing.
What do you think of the Lonsdale T11 Shadow Mitts?
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