A warm welcome to the rec-boxing e-Group!

This is a moderated eGroup/mailing list for all amateur recreational, fitness, and “white collar” boxers, as well as the trainers and coaches of those boxers. This eGroup is dedicated to those who are participating in boxing or boxing workouts primarily for fitness and recreation. There are tens of thousands of recreational boxers in just the United States alone; however, recreational athletes from any country are welcome to participate here.

A goal of this group is to stimulate discussion and sharing of ideas concerning opportunities for training and participation for all recreational, fitness, and “white collar” boxers. You are welcome to participate if you are interested as an athlete, coach, official, gym owner, personal trainer, or sports medicine expert. YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE AN INTEREST IN COMPETING IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EGROUP. Although a few of us MAY want to pursue organized, sanctioned competition, PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOCUS OF THIS GROUP IS ON RECREATION AND FITNESS, AND NOT ON COMPETITION. As used here, the terms “recreational boxing” and “fitness boxing” are defined broadly to include doing a basic boxer’s workout as well as sparring, or taking group boxing classes.

Again, although this eGroup does not focus on competition, safe, recreational, and supervised sparring is an important part of the boxer's workout for many recreational and fitness boxers. On the other hand, sparring is optional and is NOT A REQUIREMENT for you to participate here. Many fitness and recreational boxers just do the workout alone and that's fine for our purposes here.