TITLE:
Boxing Practitioners Physiology Review: 4. Faith, Life Expectancy, Gender, and Childhood
AUTHORS:
André Mukala Nsengu Tshibangu
KEYWORDS:
Boxing, Educational Boxing, Baby Boxing, Integrative Physiology, Musculoskeletal Physiology
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Molecular and Integrative Physiology,
Vol.15 No.2,
September
29,
2025
ABSTRACT: The present journal paper is the fourth and last part of a review of boxing practitioners’ physiology. The third part has dealt with dietary supplementation, weight control, recovery, and altitude. The second part has dealt with boxing practice-derived systemic responses and adaptations. The first part has dealt with kinanthropometric parameters, skeletal muscle recruitment, and ergometry. Search engines and printed documents have helped gather the information that has been discussed in the present and fourth part: as far as boxing practice is concerned, information relating to 1) faith, 2) life expectancy, 3) gender, and 4) childhood. Detailed titles and subtitles of this part of the review are found at the end of the journal paper introduction. The main teachings from the present journal paper may be acquired through consultation of the tables that are positioned in the text, not forgetting the reminders, advice, and suggestions that appear at the end of each of the four parts of the journal paper (2.5.2., 2.5.3., 2.6.2., 2.6.3., 2.7.3., 2.7.4., 2.8.6., and 2.8.7.). The reader’s attention is drawn 1) to the fact that faith is possibly a factor that may influence the performance of a boxer, but not the only one, 2) to the fact that more research work related to life expectancy is still to be carried out, 3) to the fact that females appear less negatively affected than males by professional boxing, and 4) extensively to hypotheses about the physiology of educational boxing as well as that of baby boxing practitioners.