How To Choose The Best Boxing Gloves For Beginners

Budget: When you are first starting out the very first thing you are going to want to keep in my mind when you are choosing the right pair of boxing gloves is your budget.

Getting into boxing most definitely does not need to be expensive. The only things that you really need to invest in to get started is a good set of boxing gloves that are listed above and a good punching bag. All of the choices above are excellent yet affordable choices of gloves for beginners.

How to Choose the Best Glove Size and Glove Weight? – Tips for Beginners

When choosing which glove size and weight is right for you there are a couple things that you need to take into consideration. These 2 things are:

1. What exactly do you intend to use them for mainly?

2. What weight class do you fall in? ( don’t worry we will go over this below )

3. What Type of Training do you intend to use them for mainly?

The only gloves that you really need to use as a beginner are training and sparring gloves ( I have recommended these types of gloves above )

Training and Sparring gloves can be used for all types of boxing like hitting the heavy bag and sparring with a partner. If you place an emphasis on sparring then I want you to go up one weight size. Nobody really uses anything below a 14oz pair of gloves for sparring.

If you plan to do less sparring and more heavy bag work and training workouts on the bag then you do not need to go up a weight size.

Below are the general guidelines for body-weight and size of boxing training gloves for beginners, noice, and intermediate skill levels. If you have smaller than normal hands then check out this post on the best boxing gloves for small hands

120lbs and under – ( 12 – 14oz Gloves )

120lbs – 160lbs – ( 14 – 16oz Gloves )

150lbs – 190lbs – ( 16 – 18oz Gloves )

190lbs and up – ( 18oz and up Gloves )

Proper Fit – Make sure that your boxing gloves fit you nice and snug. You ideally want to be able to wear hand wraps and have the gloves still fit you. So that when it does come time to spar you can wrap your hands and still fit in your gloves.

Put your gloves on and make a fit with your hands. If you can do this and the gloves still fit nice and snug then you have gotten the right size.

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