Fight Toward Your Fitness Goals with the Best Free-Standing Punching Bags
We weighed in on these training must-haves to give your workouts top contender status.
If you're interested in taking up combat sports as a training discipline, there are a handful of required tools to get your workouts into fighting shape. Outside of boxing gloves, another must-own is a proper punching bag. After all, what's the sense of throwing a punch if there's no target to receive the blow?
When you think of punching bags, you probably conjure up images of long, padded tubes that hang from the ceiling and occasionally get demolished by an angsty Steve Rogers. These chain-strung heavy bags can be excellent training options, but for many novice fighters — or those simply building out their home gym — the structural integrity of most households is just not capable of holding these training behemoths.
Thankfully, though, free-standing punching bags can provide all the benefits of a heavy bag in a less demanding footprint. These bags differ from their heavy counterparts because their structure is self-supporting. Rather than suspending the bag from a rafter or joist (and compromising the stability of your ceiling) these fitness essentials stand on their own and can be moved with ease to suit the aesthetic of any training room.
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Best Overall: Century Wavemaster XXL Read More
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Best Upgrade: Century Torrent T2 Pro Read More
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Best Budget Choice: Everlast OmniFlex Free Standing Heavy Bag Read More
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Best Suction Cup Base: Fitven Freestanding Punching Bag Read More
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Most Realistic Target: Century BOB XL Body Opponent Bag Read More
But which bag best suits your routine? Which style can suit your space? We've battled through the rounds and determined the best free standing punching bags for a number of fitness needs.