New Addition: MMA Punching Bag

Hi guys,

Moving on to the next new addition to our Home Gym, we got a Punching Bag.

There are various sizes of punching bags in the market. From a small 85cm to a long 2m punching bag.

The one that we got for our home gym was the 1.8m MMA Punching Bag.

What we got for our punching workout routine are:
1) A 1.8m MMA Punching Bag
2) A pair of Boxing Gloves
3) A pair of wrist wraps

The supplier included in a big piece of foam to put into the punching bag as the outer layer. This will help to protect the impact on the wrist greatly when landing a punch on the punching bag.

We got the punching Bag unfilled and so here we go with the filling process of the punching bag. 

As you will see in the pictures below, we lay the piece of foam around the inner layer of the punching bag before filling up the punching bag.

There are various materials that you can use to fill up a punching bag. Materials like Old rags, old clothes, saw dust, beans, sand, old rubber pieces etc. However, do take note that materials like sand, beans will make your punching bag really hard and heavy. It will be too hard for punching and kicking. So we actually recommends that you fill the punching bag with old clothes, rags or rubber in order to reduce the impact on your wrist and shins when punching or kicking the bag. Below is a picture of the old clothes that we used. We actually used more than what is shown in the picture below. We used around 30kg of old clothes to fill up the punching bag.

The picture below shows a packet of mothball. We decied to throw in a packet of mothball among the old clothes within the punching bag, hopefully this will prevent any bugs from coming out of the old clothes.

To ensure that the old clothes fill up the punching bag nicely and densely, that is a need to constantly press the old clothes down and to shake and slam the punching bag vertically down. To press the clothes down and as densely as possible, we used a stick to push the old clothes further into the punching bag to make it more packed. 

The top of the punching bag is like a zip pocket. After the punching bag is filled, fold in the foam piece at the top, and zip up the punching bag.

And there you go, a filled punching bag appears! After weighing, the punching bag is around 30kg. If you wan the punching bag to be heavier, you can choose to add in some sand among the old clothes. But do remember the the old clothes should make up at least 80% of the materials used, as mentioned earlier that sand will make the sandbag very hard.

So the next question that will come into your mind is that, "now that i have a filled sandbag, where can i hang it for punching?

There are various options where you can hang your punching bag on, a chin up bar, a Power Cage or a anchor point installed on the ceiling/ wall.

For our case, we hung the punching bag on our Power Cage. With the chain and carabiner that comes with the punching bag, the punching bag can be easily attached to the Power Cage.

 In order to protect the chain from scratching the Power Cage, wrap a piece of clothe or rubber around the spot on the Power Cage where the chain will be wrapping around. Refer to the picture below.

Below are some bonus pictures of the Punching bag and accessories.

Stay tune for the next post on a new addition to our Home Gym.