The Complete Book of Boxing For Fighters and Fight Fans by Curtis Cokes
Early on in his life, Curtis Cokes tried his hand at Basketball and Baseball with some good success. But standing at just 5’9” he ended up fighting in the welter weight division and eventually claimed the WBA/WBC world title in 1966.
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How to Box by Joe Louis
This is a very basic 64 page book penned by the all time great way back in the 1940’s. It’s Nowhere near as comprehensive as ‘The Complete book of Boxing for Fighters and fight Fans’ by Boxing Hall of Famer and former World champion Curtis Cokes but it might be worth your time nonetheless.
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Boxing's Dirty Tricks & Outlaw Killer Punches (Softcover)
All the usual stuff you might hear about from more experienced boxers is in here e.g. ‘rabbit punches’ or hammer punches, arms bars and baseball bat punches etc. I would definitely recommend that anyone considering practicing these techniques have a good...
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Championship Fighting by Jack Dempsey (Down-loadable PDF Book)
Ranked #7 in Ring Magazine's 100 Greatest Punchers of all time and inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, The Manassa Mauler is one of few professionals fighters to document his knowledge.
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Boxing by Edwin Haislet (Down-loadable PDF Book)
According to the foreword, the book is the culmination of 16 years of boxing experience and the author was the boxing coach and assistant professor of physical education at Minnesota University, perhaps sometime around the 1930’s.
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Supertraining by Mel C Siff PhD Sixth Edition
ISBN: 1-874856-65-6
Supertraining largely deals with metadata (a study of the studies into sports science and strength training.) It's a rich source of raw information, in fact it's a forest of information and it's easy to get lost. It's left to the reader to 'mill' their own 'timber’ and build their virtual...
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Jamie's Ministry of Food
ISBN: 978-0-718-14862-1
If you're like me, you might suspect based on the origin of the title of the book that it's about the basics of cooking and if you know your way around the kitchen, then surely it's a book that is below you. But this book delivers the goods. I considered myself capable in the kitchen
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The Low Cholesterol No Fat Cookbook with Anne Sheasby (contributing editor)
ISBN: 0-7548-1079-8
In the fitness world, it hardly gets a mention, but the diet or what we eat is about as important as anything else you will ever do in the field. Being competent in the kitchen is absolutely paramount. And the struggle which causes a lot of problems for many people is in part, is not knowing
how to cook, the other problem is not knowing
what to cook.
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Magnificent Mobility (DVD)
The first 5 minutes of the DVD comprise of a reasonably thorough scientific, but understandable discussion on the benefits of dynamic stretching over static stretching. They make their case for this well and they immediately begin with the exercises starting with an array
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Infinite Intensity by Ross Enamait
This text is custom designed for fighters. The author trains professional fighters such as Chuck Liddell and various others under contract for a living. So you just know this is the real thing. This is tough stuff. And a lot of it is no fun, but I guess if we were after fun this
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Big Beyond Belief III
When I purchased this book through money order it would have been about 1994. I weighed about 67kgs dripping wet. 2-3 years later I was weighing in at about 106 solid kg's. A very big part of the muscle gain was due to using the methods and training principles outlined in this book.
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