Shoulders · Bodyweight
Boxing Right Cross
How to do the boxing right cross, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Logged as
- Reps
- Movement
- HorizontalPush
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
Stand in a boxing stance with your hands up. Drive off your rear foot, rotate your hip and torso, and extend your right arm straight across to the target, then snap back to guard.
- 1Feel the power begin at your rear foot, rotate through your hip and
- 2torso, and finish through the fist
- 3Extend the arm fully with your triceps and shoulder, then snap it back to guard
- 4Keep your core braced and chin tucked behind your shoulder
Common mistakes
- Don't drop your lead hand as you punch
- Avoid lunging forward off balance or overreaching
- Don't throw with just your arm; let the hip rotation drive the cross
Muscles worked
The boxing right cross mainly works the triceps and front delts, with the mid chest, obliques, upper chest, upper abs, lower abs, quads, glutes, calves, side delts, and internal rotators assisting.
- TricepsPrimary
- Front DeltsPrimary
- Mid ChestSupport
- ObliquesSupport
- Upper ChestSupport
- Upper AbsSupport
- Lower AbsSupport
- QuadsSupport
- GlutesSupport
- CalvesSupport
- Side DeltsSupport
- Internal RotatorsSupport
- ForearmsMinor
- LatsMinor
- Lower BackMinor
- Upper TrapsMinor
- HamstringsMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.