About this ebook
The heavy bag is one of the oldest pieces of workout equipment. It is regularly used by boxers, mixed martial artists, self-defense students, and fitness enthusiasts. Unfortunately, most people don't know how to properly use the heavy bag. Impatiently, they rush out to their local sporting goods store, buy a bag and begin wailing on it without a care in the world. In most cases, they are hitting it incorrectly, developing dangerous habits and possibly injuring their body.
GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR HEAVY BAG WORKOUTS!
Heavy Bag Training for Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts and Self-Defense is the first book in Sammy Franco's best-selling Heavy Bag Training Book Series. In this unique book, world-renowned martial artist and self-defense expert, Sammy Franco provides you with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to maximize your heavy bag workouts. In this information-packed guide, you'll find the important answers to the questions about all aspects of heavy bag training.
Heavy Bag Training covers the following:
How to purchase a quality heavy bag
The benefits of heavy bag training
How to design your own heavy bag workouts
Sample time-based heavy bag workouts
How to properly set up the heavy bag
Heavy Bag hanging systems
Heavy bag training safety tips
Essential heavy bag gear
Hand wrapping techniques for intense heavy bag training
The fighting stance for heavy bag training
Mobility and footwork during heavy bag workouts
How to punch the heavy bag correctly
How to avoid hand injuries
The best hand strengthening exercises for bag work
The fighting ranges used during bag training
Heavy bag kicking techniques
Punching techniques
Grappling strikes on the bag
Bonus! Heavy bag workout tips
OVER 100 KICKING, PUNCHING & GRAPPLING STRIKING COMBINATIONS!
Heavy Bag Training for Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts and Self-Defense includes over one hundred different kicking, punching and grappling striking combinations! If you are serious about training and want to get the most out of your heavy bag workout, then you will want to read and study this book!
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About the author
With over 35 years of teaching experience, Sammy Franco is one of the most recognized authorities on reality based self-defense instruction. Highly regarded as a leading innovator in the martial arts, Sammy Franco is one of the premier pioneers in the field of both armed and unarmed combat.
Sammy Franco is also the founder and creator of Contemporary Fighting Arts (CFA), a cutting-edge martial art specifically designed for real world self-defense situations. This dynamic, "no nonsense" system is specifically designed to provide efficient and effective methods to avoid, defuse, confront, and neutralize both armed and unarmed attackers.
Sammy Franco has been featured on national radio shows, newspaper and television programs, including the CBS television news magazine 48 HOURS. As a professional writer since 1989, Mr. Franco has authored dozens of books on the subject of reality based self-defense, street fighting, martial arts, combat conditioning, combat psychology, and military strategy. He has also published numerous articles for various national publications. In addition, Mr. Franco has directed and produced over 60 instructional self-defense videos.
Sammy Franco is also a Law Enforcement Master Instructor who has designed, implemented, and taught officer survival programs to the United States Border Patrol (USBP). Mr. Franco has also instructed members of the US Secret Service, Military Special Forces, Washington DC Police Department, Montgomery County, Maryland Deputy Sheriffs, and the US Library of Congress Police. Mr. Franco is also a member of the prestigious International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA), American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers (ASLET) and is listed in the "Who's Who Director of Law Enforcement Instructors." He is also a certified law enforcement instructor from a variety of agencies, including the National Law Enforcement Training Center (NLETC).
Sammy Franco holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology from the University of Maryland. He is a regularly featured speaker at a number of professional conferences, and conducts dynamic and enlightening seminars on numerous aspects of reality based self-defense.
On a personal level, Sammy Franco is an animal lover, who will go to great lengths to assist and rescue animals. Throughout the years, he's rescued everything from turkey vultures to goats. However, his most treasured moments are always spent with his German Shepherd dogs.
To learn more about Sammy Franco, please visit his official website at: SammyFranco.com or follow him on Twitter: @RealSammyFranco
