USA Boxing Club · Gibsonville, NC 27249
Boxing Classes in Gibsonville, NC
USA Boxing Gym
Boxing five nights a week in a full ring, coached by a Golden Gloves champion. Beginners start Monday and Wednesdays at 7:00. Five minutes from Elon, and ten minutes from Burlington.
Almost nobody who walks in here has boxed before. That is the normal way to arrive, and it is why your first weeks happen in their own class instead of at the back of somebody else's.
No experience needed · No contract · Cancel anytime · Open gym included
Who is teaching you
Your Boxing Coach: Anthony "Arthur" Holt
1982 New York Golden Gloves champion. Former USA Boxing Team member.
Coach will spend twenty minutes of a Monday night fixing the way one beginner stands
Very few can show you an 88-4 amateur record and a Golden Gloves title out of the toughest amateur tournament in the country — and almost none of those are teaching a first-timer in a town of seven thousand people.
Practically, it means you learn it right the first time. Bad habits picked up off a video take years to unlearn, and most people never do.
You will get worked here. You will not get embarrassed here.
Champion Holt Boxing →What kind of gym this is
There Is A Difference Between Boxing And Boxing-Shaped Cardio.
Both are fine. They are not the same thing, and you should know which one you are signing up for.
Plenty of places in Burlington and Greensboro will put you in front of a bag for forty-five minutes with music on. You will sweat and you will enjoy it. What you will not do is learn to box, because nobody is watching your feet.
This is a boxing gym. There is a full competition ring. There is a coach correcting you by name. Sparring exists for whoever wants it and is optional for everybody else. And because we are a USA Boxing club, sanctioned amateur competition is an actual door here rather than something you would have to leave to find.
You still get the conditioning — more of it, honestly, because skill work is harder than a circuit. You just get a skill as well.
Three Kinds Of People Train Here
All three are in the room on a Monday night, and it works.
Start here
Boxing For Beginners: Mondays at 7:00 PM
A class that exists so your first night is not spent copying people who already know what they are doing.
Forty-five minutes on the fundamentals. Stance, so you are balanced instead of braced. Footwork, which everybody skips and which decides everything. The jab. Your hands. Not telegraphing.
It is the hardest part of boxing and the part every fitness class rushes. Get it right in month one and the rest arrives quickly. Get it wrong and you spend two years fighting your own feet.
When it clicks you slide into the 7:15 class with everyone else. No test, no announcement. Coach just starts giving you the same work.
What A Boxing Class Looks Like
Ninety minutes, 7:15 to 8:45, Monday through Friday.
Warm up and shadow box
Rounds of movement to get the shoulders loose and the feet awake. It looks like nothing. It is where most of your technique actually gets built, because it is the only time you are watching yourself instead of a target.
Technique on the floor
One or two things, slowly. A punch, a counter, a way out of a corner. Coach demonstrates, walks the room, corrects you individually. This is where forty years of coaching earns its money.
Pads, bags and rounds
Mitts with a coach or partner, then timed rounds on the heavy bag. Hard enough that you stop thinking about anything else. This is the part people come back for.
Conditioning and out
Core, rope, and whatever the coach feels like doing to you at the end. Then you shake hands with the room. Every class, no exceptions.
What to bring to your first class
Athletic clothes with no zippers or pockets, and water. That is the list. You do not need gloves or wraps for a first night — we will sort you out.
Once you are staying, a coach tells you exactly what to buy. Wraps and gloves, in that order, and nothing else for a while. Do not spend two hundred dollars online before somebody has told you what fits.
Sanctioned Amateur Boxing
If you want to compete, the road starts here.
USA Boxing is the national governing body for amateur boxing, and being a registered club is the route into every sanctioned tournament in North Carolina and beyond.
Competing means registering as a USA Boxing athlete, which involves some paperwork and a medical. We walk you through all of it.
USA Boxing Sparring runs Fridays at 7:30 — where you find out whether you actually want this. Optional, supervised, full gear, and you go in when Coach Holt says so and not before.
Boxing Class Schedule in Gibsonville
More boxing than anything else we run.
Beginner Basics
Monday
7:00 – 7:45 PM
Fundamentals only, for your first weeks. Start here.
Boxing
Monday to Friday
7:15 – 8:45 PM
The main class, all levels, every weekday. Technique, pads, bags, conditioning.
USA Boxing Sparring
Friday
7:30 – 8:30 PM
Optional and coach-approved. Full gear, supervised, only when you are ready.
Kids Boxing
Monday and Wednesday
5:00 – 5:30 PM
Thirty minutes of stance, footwork and pads. See the kids program.
A Boxing Gym Serving Gibsonville, Burlington and Elon
Address
The Sweat Lab MMA and Fitness
106 E Railroad Avenue, Unit 180
Gibsonville, NC 27249
On the Alamance and Guilford county line, in the eastern Triad. Five minutes from Elon, ten from Burlington, twenty from east Greensboro, and easy from Whitsett, Graham, Mebane and Haw River.
Talk to a person
336-221-4257
thesweatlabnc@gmail.com
Call, text or email. Ask for a Monday if you have never boxed.
First night
Arrive fifteen minutes early. Somebody will meet you, show you round and introduce you to a coach before anything starts.
Athletic clothes and water. Nothing else.
Free Trial Class
Come to a Monday. Start at the start.
Beginner Basics is at 7:00 and the main class follows at 7:15. Leave your details and we will tell you which to come to and what to expect.
No pitch, no contract, no card. Worst case you spend an hour learning to throw a proper jab, which is not a bad hour.
Monday to Friday · 7:15 PM · Beginner Basics Mondays and Wednesdays 7:00PM · No contract
The Sweat Lab MMA and Fitness · 106 E Railroad Avenue, Unit 180, Gibsonville, NC 27249
336-221-4257 · Boxing classes serving Gibsonville, Burlington, Elon, Whitsett, Graham, Mebane, Haw River and the Triad.