Hitting the speed and heavy bags
I started a new plan of working out 3 days a week and hitting the speed bag and heavy bag after my weight routine. Should I work out on the speed bag and heavy bag the same days that I am doing weight training on my arms or should I do the speedbag and heavy bag workout on opposite days?
I don’t have a specific answer. You’re in charge.
The bag is a great activity by itself and can assist one’s general conditioning if one is young, vital, eats right and is not excessive in either of his workouts. Only a month into the combination of exercises, you’ll have to live, lift, experiment and learn and grow.
Mix the two activities as your energy and desire dictates: same day, alternate days, before and after weight training and evaluate the coordination of activities. Do you favor one over the other?
If your goal is to develop both equally, timing doesn’t matter. Enjoy both and the dilemma will sort out itself.
If big muscles dominate your goals, the bag work will need to be minimal… an aerobic assist and not a muscle overload or teardown.
And so it goes with your skills in bag work… determine your priorities.
Busy… gotta go… Godspeed… DD