Elite strength and conditioning for boxing, built around your fighting style and your goals.
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Programs built for the fighter, not just for “boxing.”
I'm a strength coach who wants to see your fight footage, watch your bag work and talk to your coach. Are you struggling to be explosive with your double jab? Do you have the hip strength to sit down on a hook, or are you throwing it with your arms? Success starts with finding the weak links, and that's what we train.
Your program isn't written weeks in advance. Like adjustments in the corner between rounds, we evaluate what's working, fix what isn't and build the athlete you need to be to achieve your goals.
First fight, fortieth fight, or no fight at all.
Mental toughness. I'll bet on the fighter who gets up at 5 a.m. every day to run in the dark over the one obsessed with studies, any day.
Gym strength doesn't equal boxing strength. Old-timers knew big gym lifts didn't translate to the ring, and they were right.
Falling in love with the numbers. Every athlete loves progress, but you can't turn a boxer into a lifter and expect to win.
High intensity everything. A good fighter is relaxed. Strength coaches who have never boxed assume everything is high intensity and maximum effort, but good fighters know better.
Bad habits. Holding your breath, a stable base and never shifting your bodyweight are great for lifting, but terrible for boxing.
Never ignore the lessons proven by the old school.
Don't turn boxers into lifters.
Fix the weak links that hold back performance in the ring, not just in the gym.
“Louie Simmons, one of the most famous lifters and coaches in history, once told me that an athlete was better off doing no strength training at all than doing it wrong. And he was right.”
Conjugate develops power, speed, strength and endurance at the same time. That means you'll never be caught in the wrong training phase for a short-notice fight, you won't lose ground in one area trying to improve another, and you'll always be ready to train and perform at your best.
Your head coach knows you better than anyone. As a strength and conditioning coach, my job is to work with them to find what's holding you back, and make sure the results are showing up in the ring.
There should never be a conflict between a strength coach and a boxing coach. We want the same thing.
Strength and conditioning should make you more explosive, build your gas tank and keep you injury-free, so you're remembered for what matters: how you box.
8 to 12 weeks, built backwards from your fight date.
Monthly coaching that moves with your training week.
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I've loved boxing since I was five, throwing ones and twos at pillows my grandfather held up while we watched Rocky.
I've spent my career learning from the best in strength. Louie Simmons taught me that plans need to be principles: find the weak link, eliminate it, then find the next. Bill Kazmaier taught me how much work an athlete can really handle, and how to fuel it. Josh Bryant taught me intensity, and not to major in the minors. Andy Bolton taught me that world-class results don't need complicated plans.
When I went back into the ring after strongman, my strength made me incredibly durable. I could handle the grueling rounds of training, the bag work and the miles of roadwork. But I'd also hard-wired lifting habits that hurt me as a fighter. I held my breath. I set a stable base instead of moving. I pushed off my back foot like a clean and jerk instead of exploding my bodyweight into my punches.
As a 330 lb pro strongman, I didn't hit as hard as I do today at 235 lb, and that's why I coach the way I do.

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“I’m up there in the world. These guys all have world-class strength trainers. Well, I need a world-class strength trainer myself in order to compete… My punch got a lot stronger, my core got a lot stronger, just my physical strength overall got a lot stronger. And I did go on to win more titles, but I don’t believe, in that time, I could have done that without Craig’s teachings.”
It can. The biggest mistake I see boxers make is doing too much of it. Lifting gives you exact numbers, and boxing doesn't, so it's easy to fall in love with them. But nobody wins a fight on their squat. We train what makes you better in the ring, and nothing that gets in its way.
Yes. Your training and nutrition get planned around your weight class so you get there feeling strong, not drained, and I work alongside your coach and nutritionist if you have one.
There's a lot of free advice on YouTube and across the internet. If you're using it and you're happy with the progress you're making, keep using it. When you need something built specifically for you, that's what RoundWon is for.
Good. Keep it that way. RoundWon works around your coach's sessions and sends them a summary, so you show up fresh for the work that matters.
No. Your program adjusts for recovery, old injuries and the hours you actually have, so you can keep boxing into your 50s and beyond.
Most fighters below the top level have day jobs. Programs are built around two to four boxing sessions a week, not on top of them.
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