Go ahead, hit that bag.
You are guaranteed to lose weight.
Danny Campbell, the managing partner for Title Boxing Club, has guaranteed results if you hit his bags.
If you don’t see any change in your body after six months at Title Boxing Club, he will refund your membership money.
Campbell, a native of Independence, was a professional boxer for four years, winning the Kansas City Gold Gloves four times. He earned a 14-1 professional record.
He started training and fighting at age 10 and left the sport at age 25, when knee injuries forced him to retire.
Training as a boxer was the only form of exercise he knew. Campbell began training people on punching bags at gyms, but it wasn’t consistent work.
But Campbell wanted the boxer-like workouts into the Kansas City area, into large facilities with plenty of room for the equipment.
A business partner and a business, Title Boxing, a company that sells boxing equipment, joined him.
On Jan. 2, 2008, the first Title Boxing Club was opened in Overland Park, Kan.
It was the first gym of its kind ever to open in the Kansas City area.
“Then it just kind of blew up on us,” Campbell said. “We opened the first club and within the next six months, we opened the second one and six months later we opened our third.”
In one year, Campbell and his partners opened up three clubs. Two clubs are located in Overland Park, the other in Lee’s Summit.
The work out is called the “Power Hour.”
The first 15 minutes are stretching. Next, they put the gloves on and go to work, striking the bag like a boxer preparing for a fight.
They go through three minutes of non-stop hitting of the bag then take a one minute break. It lasts for 30 minutes.
The last 15 minutes are spent exercising with a 12-pound medicine ball. Exercises include sit-ups, push-ups, and other exercises to strengthen the abdominal.
“It’s just like a boxer’s work out,” Campbell said.
The recommended frequency is doing the Power Hour three times a week. But the person is free to do more. In fact, some (very few) have done the Power Hour twice a day.
“Three hours a week is all they have to put into it,” Campbell said.
The workouts shed body fat and defines muscles. It builds stamina from the cardiovascular training.
Campbell’s 55-year-old brother stopped taking blood pressure medication three months into the work outs.
The workout builds self-confidence and self-defense, Campbell said.
“It’s one-on-one. It’s you and the bag,” Campbell said.
The people follow the instruction of the trainer, who is usually a former professional fighter.
The trainer teaches proper striking technique and body positioning.
The gym is the first of its kind in the Kansas City area.
“We’ve got more than 2,000 members in the Kansas City area,” Campbell said.
An example of its popularity can be found in the availability of heavy bags. Usually there are 42 bags per gym, giving each person their own bag. But sometimes people have to double-up on bags because there’s more than 42 in a training session, Campbell said.
“People are getting results,” he said. “In this work out, you have trainer in every class teaching you how to do it. Everybody is being pushed the same way. You’re being pushed to limits you never dreamed you could do. It’s not like you’re going to punch a little and stop when you get tired. This is timed. A minute takes a long time when you’re breathing hard.”
Seventy percent of the participants are women.
The results, Campbell said, come quickly. “You’ll see results in four weeks,” he said.
For example, if you do the workout three times a week, you will lose 2 to 3 pounds of body fat a week, Campbell said. This is not even having the person alter their diet. More weight will drop if they improve their diet, he said.
In the Power Hour, a person will burn 1,000 calories.
Hitting a bag provides resistance, cardiovascular and self-defense. But the muscle resistance “is where it’s all at.”
“When you’re hitting the bag and the punch stops it makes every muscle fiber in your body react to it. You can go light or you can go heavy. Regardless, you’re going to make that muscle fiber grow and start developing.”
The heavy bag, filled with rags, weighs between 100 to 150 pounds and stands 6 feet tall.
Title Boxing Club will refund a person’s money if they do not get any kind of results within six months of the membership.
“We’ve never had to do that,” he said.
Membership is $49 a month. You can do as many sessions you want per week or day, if you can stand it, Campbell said.
