Core · Bodyweight
Boxing Right Left Hook
How to do the boxing right left hook, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Logged as
- Reps
- Movement
- Rotation
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
Stand in a boxing stance with hands up by your chin. Throw a right hook by rotating your hips and pivoting your back foot to swing the arm in a horizontal arc, then follow immediately with a left hook, rotating the other way.
- 1Rotation through your hips and core powering each hook
- 2Your back foot pivoting as you turn into the punch
- 3Hands returning to guard between punches
Common mistakes
- Punching with just the arm and no hip rotation
- Dropping your guard hand while the other punches
- Swinging so wide you lose balance
Muscles worked
The boxing right left hook mainly works the obliques, with the front delts, triceps, forearms, mid chest, upper abs, lower abs, quads, glutes, and side delts assisting.
- ObliquesPrimary
- Front DeltsSupport
- TricepsSupport
- ForearmsSupport
- Mid ChestSupport
- Upper AbsSupport
- Lower AbsSupport
- QuadsSupport
- GlutesSupport
- Side DeltsSupport
- BicepsMinor
- Upper ChestMinor
- LatsMinor
- Lower BackMinor
- Upper TrapsMinor
- Mid TrapsMinor
- HamstringsMinor
- CalvesMinor
- Rear DeltsMinor
- Internal RotatorsMinor
- AdductorsMinor
- Hip FlexorsMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.