It’s been about a week punching kneeing and elbowing this punching bag. No pains, no nothing I actually feel better leaving the gym. Are there any dangers to doing this everyday? If there are dangers how do I reduce the chances of running into them besides the obvious don’t punch the bag every day rest 24 hour and stuff.
Everyday, can be a bit excessive. While it feels great and can help greatly in the relief of stress, there are negative sides to hitting the bag everyday.
Hitting the bag every day may not necessarily show up in the short term with problems, but they will show up eventually. The thing you need to remember is you are shocking your body greatly each time you strike the bag. The force is absorbed through your bones, ligaments, and cartilage. While the impact can actually be beneficial to your bones in keeping their density up, it is very bad on your cartilage, and a strain on your ligaments.
The punching bag has the same effect as running on concrete. The constant impacting wears down your cartilage, something not rebuilt by the body. There are boxers who develop hand, wrist, and shoulder problems often enough from their sport and the constant pounding of fists. Case in point: Floyd "Money" Mayweather; he has severe hand problems to the point of having to get a massage everyday on his hands and wrists.