Which Punch bag is the best? Freestanding or Hanging Bag

                         

When you’re out buying yourself a punch bag for general fitness or training, it becomes a difficult task when you find out there are so many different types of punch bags out there. Each of these bags has their pros n cons. In this post I will show you what punch bag is best for you, freestanding or a hanging punch bag.

1.Hanging bags are much better than freestanding bags

                           

Freestanding ones feel "empty" too hit, which they are, you can't really sink a solid hit into them, and if you try to kick them, often you end up knocking them over. Not to mention the fact that after a few hits it is not where it was when you started. Meaning they budge and move out of place.

A hanging Muay-Thai bag is simply the best heavy bag out there. After that, Hanging bags are generally better than their free standing counter parts, but take up more space generally and are not always as desirable. So if you live in an apartment where there is no space for a hanging bag then in that case you are better off with a freestanding heavy bag.

2.Filling of the Bag is Important

                             

The bag is less relevant than what you fill it with. Most of the ones you find is local authority sports centers are filled with foam or something else that's as useless as a wet kiss in a fight.

The ideal material for it to be still safely usable are rags, fairly densely packed. You can fill it with sand but it will weigh a heck of a lot and you will absolutely need good quality pad mitts to work with it (and there's a good chance you'll break your wrists if you're not used to punching something this hard!)

If the bag is filled with too light a material, then it won't provide any kind of resistance and will make your work out pretty uninspiring and it won't be much of a work out. You also won't develop your punching/kicking focus and technique.

3.Give more space to hanging bags

                               

Finally, really try to have the bag hanging in completely free space so you can really move around it. Keeping on your toes and moving constantly, like a boxer, is as much a part of the training and the punching and kicking and also teaches you to move.

Remember the purpose of the heavy bag is to develop power. You can't develop power on a target that has no weight behind it, which standing ones don't, the weight is under it. They are better than nothing, but if you have a place to hang a bag, a hanging bag is a much better option.