McDonald Method Boxing Basics Online

The "Why" Behind Pad Training

Boxing Training is often seen as a fun, stress-busting HIIT finisher—and it is—but it’s so much more!

From rhythm and timing to cognitive boosts like reactive stability and depth perception, Boxing Training even plays a role in therapies for conditions like Parkinson’s Disease.

The Importance of Breath

How to Meet Your Client Where They're At

What’s your client’s current capacity? Do they qualify for impact-based activity today? On the online course, we’ll cover quick assessments to pinpoint their starting spot and ways to tweak workouts to match their daily capacity.

Life happens, and we’re here to make the exercise fit the client—not the other way around!

Boxing-Specific Movement Prep

Boxing is tough on the body, especially for newbies! We’ll show you how to prep clients for peak performance with tailored movement prep.

From scapular positioning to rotary control and activating sling systems for power, you’ll learn how to get your clients ready to crush it safely and effectively.

How To Teach the Basics of Boxing

Combination and Session Building

Building combinations and structuring sessions can feel overwhelming for new boxing coaches. Balancing distance, movement, impact, feedback, and training goals—there’s a LOT to juggle!

In this online course, we’ll break it down with combos and session plans you can keep, plus a simple framework to help you create your own without the “paralysis by analysis.”

Bag Training

Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent! In order for you and your clients to effectively learn a skill, practice is what you need.

In the bag training section we look at how to practice the skills in a safe and effective manner if they don't have access to someone holding pads. 

Pad Training

Holding pads is far more skillful than what you may think, from safety to distancing, combination building to absorbing impact for a beginner to intermediate/ advanced client, the nuance and process is far more in-depth than just shouting '1-2!!!'.

We look at how to hold pads effectively and in a way that respects both your clients capacity and yours.

Body Shield Integration

I've never been super intelligent so when it comes to switching pads quickly from body shots to head shots I struggle!

A superb way to integrate body punching is by using a body shield. We look at how to brace and absorb impact when using a body shield and how to effectively flow with combinations.