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Running Time: Depends on set. 2-6 hours.

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This review has been three months in the making. Alan Kahn, author and producer of The Speed Bag Bible sent me a package just before Christmas in 2006 and it has taken me nearly three months to get through it due to the sheer volume of information his speed bag program provides. I don't want to explicitly compare Alan's program to others I've looked at, but I will say that Alan has created his program to be highly adaptive and flexible and there is nothing I have seen that compares in this regard. He teaches 24 individual punching and elbow striking techniques that can be combined into hundreds of combinations. His program will basically unleash your imagination and his training will have you hitting the speed bag with rhythm and style. In essence, you can create speed bag music and a good portion of his training shows you how to hit to music using the speed bag as a drum.

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running time: approx 69 minutes

Did you know there are 21 different combinations you can do on a speedbag? In all reality, there are probably a lot more, but 21 is definitely a good start. This instructional video is nothing short of a miracle for anyone trying to figure out how to hit that little ball and make it look like you actually know what you're doing.

The speedbag is an elusive little ball that is completely unforgiving. Either you have the technique or you don't, there really is no inbetween. And that's really too bad, because that rapid little thump, thump, thump looks and sounds awesome. It's kind of therapeutic. Every major Hollywood boxing movie has some scene where the champ is training on it (Rocky, Million Dollar Baby, etc...). When someone is hitting it with the proper technique, one doesn't really see it being hit at all - it just moves really damn fast.

Gymboss Interval Timer
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Whether you are following the 12 week boxing training plan, or just using boxing in your own workouts, you'll quickly discover that being able to accurately time your rounds and rest intervals is absolutely essential.  The Gymboss Interval Timer and Stop Watch could be the answer you are looking for.

About two weeks ago, Jake from Gymboss contacted me to see if I'd like to try out a Gymboss and report about it on How to Box.  After laying the ground rules, that I will say exactly what I think, good or bad, one quickly showed up in the mail, I clipped it on and for the last two weeks I've been giving it a thorough beating...I mean testing.

Back in September, 2008, I first introduced the online fitness program - Fast Track to Fat Loss - when I presented 9 members of the program competing for a trip to Mexico based on their body transformations.  I also mentioned at the time that once the Fast Track to Fat Loss site opened to the public that I would test it out to present my honest opinions about it.

Well it opened and I signed up. Knowing the quality of the owner's work in the past, I have to tell that I had high hopes for the Fast Track to Fat Loss site.  I've followed one of the founders, Chad Tackett, since he first started offering online fitness programs with another site called Global Health and Fitness.  That site grew and helped thousands and thousands of people get in shape.  The impact he has had on so many lives is both amazing and inspiring, and I hoped he could repeat it with Fast Track to Fat Loss.

He has since sold Global Fitness in order to devote himself full time to this new online fitness site, teaming up with fitness superstar Kim Lyons (you may remember her from The Biggest Loser) to bring easy to follow online meal and training programs focusing on fat loss to the internet masses.