Boxing In A Box

Tampa, FL 33612 · Beginners welcome · All ages and fitness levels

Learn to box properly,
whatever shape you're in.

Technique-led boxing and conditioning on Fowler Avenue, coached by Justin Mitchell and his team. Beginners, seniors and people training around Parkinson's or an injury all work the same floor.

Beginners welcome, all ages and fitness levels

Every round coached, never a bag and a timer

Non-contact options, nobody has to spar

Rated 5.0 across 5 Google reviews
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Rated 5.0 across 5 Google reviews, and 100% recommended on Facebook

Lorena Santos

“The trainers are highly qualified, friendly, and truly motivational. From the moment you walk in, everyone makes you feel so welcome, it honestly feels like family.”

Laura Polanco

“More than a gym it feels like you belong, like if you are home! The workouts will help you not only learn self-defense but pump your day, give stress relief.”

Reece Gerdon

“From the moment you walk in, you feel the energy, this gym is the real deal. It's not just about boxing; it's about building strength, confidence, and community.”

Megan Diaz

“The environment is welcoming, the facilities are excellent, and the energy is inspiring. What really sets it apart is Justin, he's an amazing trainer.”

Kevin Alvarez

“Had an amazing workout here with a good mix of boxing with exercises integrated within each round. Instructor was very knowledgeable in boxing basics, combos, and footwork.”

Northeast Tampa

What training here is actually like

Every round is coached

Every round is coached

Small groups with a coach on the mitts, so someone is watching your guard and your feet the whole session. It is a group class that feels like personal training.

You will not be the only beginner

You will not be the only beginner

Most people who walk in have never thrown a punch. Sessions are modified to your abilities, not to whoever is fittest in the room.

No mirrors. No ego. Just work.

No mirrors. No ego. Just work.

One room, a bag row, a ring and green turf. Nothing to perform for and nobody keeping score.

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How a session works

More than boxing for fitness

New to this? Here is the short version, no jargon and no prior knowledge needed.

  • Technique before power

    You learn the stance, the guard and the footwork before anyone asks you to hit anything hard. Real boxing situations, taught slowly.

  • The book and the safe

    Write down whatever you walked in carrying. Lock it in the safe or throw it away, then go and work.

  • Modified to you, not to the room

    Every session is adjusted to your abilities. Non-contact the whole way through if that is what you need.

  • Boxing and chess

    The gym pairs boxing with chess, on the theory that both reward patience and reading the person in front of you.

How is this different from a normal boxing class?

The standard fitness-boxing class hands you a bag and a timer and lets you get on with it. Here a coach is on the mitts with you round by round, correcting your guard and your feet, which is why the gym describes it as a group training experience that gives you the feel of personal training. Nobody spars unless they ask to.

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All levels welcome

Our classes

Five programs, all coach-led. Two of them, the non-contact Parkinson's class and the 65+ mobility group, you will not find at another boxing gym in Tampa.

The main gym floor, with the row of hanging heavy bags and a coach on the mitts

Boxing for Fitness

A group class that feels like personal training.

The main class and the one most people start with. A coach works the mitts with you round by round, with conditioning between. All levels, and you will be shown the basics before you are asked to use them. 45 minutes.

Two members sparring inside the ring

Power Surge

High intensity, full body, high energy.

The harder end of the timetable. Boxing plus conditioning at pace, run by Coach Tiff on Thursday evenings. Come when you want a session that leaves nothing in the tank.

Nine kids in a fists-up line with two coaches under the Boxing In A Box sign

Bully-Proof Youth

Skills to stand tall.

Youth boxing built around confidence rather than competition. Kids learn technique, self-control and how to hold their ground, modified to each child's age and ability. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 3:45 PM.

Coach holding a focus mitt for a senior member inside the ring

Boxing for Parkinson's

Move better. Feel stronger. Fight back.

A non-contact program designed specifically for people living with Parkinson's. Every class is modified to each participant's abilities, in a safe and encouraging room. Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon, 45 minutes.

We Aren't Done Yet (65+)

65 young and up.

Mobility, flexibility and light strength work for older members, run at a pace that suits the room. Boxing is optional and always non-contact.

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2109 E. Fowler Avenue

The gym

One room with a full roped ring, a long row of heavy bags and green turf. It is not big and it is not glossy, and that is rather the point.

Around the gym

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Training Zones

The ring

The ring

A full roped ring with TITLE corner pads and an Everlast canvas. Used for technique work and, when members want it, controlled sparring. Nobody is put in it who does not ask.

The bag row

The bag row

A long row of hanging heavy bags along the wall, plus a speed bag and battle ropes. This is where the conditioning rounds happen.

The turf floor

The turf floor

Open green turf for mitt work in pairs, group sessions, mobility and free weights. The whole class runs on it at once.

Member facilities

Showers

On-site showers, so a lunchtime class or a session on the way home is not a problem.

Parking on site

Park directly outside, including accessible spaces. No meters and no circling the block.

Step-free entrance

The entrance is level from the parking bays, so you can get in without steps.

Gender-neutral restroom

A gender-neutral restroom on site.

Family, senior and neurodiverse friendly

Kids, parents and older members all train here, and emotional support animals are welcome.

Trauma-informed coaching

The coaching is trauma-informed. It matters, given the veterans and Parkinson's work the gym does.

Location

Boxing In A Box

2109 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33612

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What did you come for?

Four reasons people walk through the door here, and what the gym actually runs for each.

Losing weight at Boxing In A Box

The gym publishes weight-loss coaching as a service and has the result to back it: one member, three months in, fifteen pounds down. Boxing rounds plus conditioning does the work, and a coach keeps you honest about turning up.

Boxing for Fitness

45 minutes of coached mitt work and conditioning. The class most members build their week around.

Weight-loss coaching 1:1

Justin publishes weight-loss control as a personal-training service. Mention it when you book your first class.

A member's story

Real people, real results

I had not done anything properly in years and I assumed a boxing gym would be full of people who already knew what they were doing. Nobody looked at me twice.

Justin put me on the mitts in my first session and just kept correcting my feet. Three months in I am fifteen pounds down and I book the same class every week.

“Three months in. Killing the game. Real people, real results, fifteen pounds down.”

- Boxing In A Box member
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Boxing In A Box member
Coach working a mitt with a member on the gym floor

Yes, both coaches take 1:1 clients

Justin has been a certified personal trainer for over 15 years and Junior for over 10, and sessions run 30, 45 or 60 minutes. Between them they cover a lot more than pad work.

  • Low impact recovery and injury rehab
  • Stretch and Roll, plus Thera-gun therapy
  • Body movement and mobility
  • H.I.T and sports performance
  • Small group fitness
  • Weight-loss coaching

Mention it when you book your first class and a coach will talk it through with you.

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Meet the founders

Two coaches, 25 years between them

Justin Mitchell, founder and head coach at Boxing In A Box
Founder and head coach

Justin Mitchell

Founded the gym in 2023 · Certified personal trainer, 15+ years

Justin started Boxing In A Box in 2023 because he wanted a boxing room that could look after people rather than filter them out. He specializes in minor rehabilitation, boxing for fitness, stretching and Thera-gun therapy.

He is the coach members name in their reviews, and the one running the veterans program. Expect to be corrected on your feet more than once.

“You can call me your Neighborhood Spider Man, here to save lives.”

Junior Garcia, personal trainer and boxing trainer at Boxing In A Box
Personal trainer and licensed boxing trainer

Junior Garcia

10+ years training clients · ISSA-CPT, NASM, PES, PTA Global

Born and raised in Anchorage, now rooted in Tampa. Junior's specialty is boxing, he volunteers as a youth football coach, and he is a father of four.

Expect high energy and real talk. He will not let you coast through a round.

“Be ready for some high energy, real talk, and let's get yourself a Junior!”

Why we're here

A gym that runs a non-profit

The gym opened in 2023, and alongside it runs A Fighter's Chance, a non-profit offering boxing therapy to military veterans living with PTSD at no cost to them. There are parallel programs for children and for first responders.

That is why the room works the way it does for everyone else too. The coaching is trauma-informed, sessions are modified to the person rather than standardized, and non-contact is always an option. It was built for people who need that.

Support A Fighter's Chance

Members and coaches posed together by the ring at Boxing In A Box

Four published prices, no phone call needed

Plans and pricing

Start with a single class if you want to. The packs and the unlimited plan are there when you decide to keep coming.

Entry point

Drop In

$25per class

One class, any class on the timetable. The way to try it once.

  • Any class on the weekly timetable
  • Gloves and wraps: bring your own, or ask when you book
  • No contract, cancel any time
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10 Class Pack

$175for 10 classes

Works out at $17.50 a class. Valid for 2 months.

  • 10 classes, valid for 2 months
  • $17.50 a class
  • Use them across any class on the timetable
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20 Class Pack

$275for 20 classes

Works out at $13.75 a class. Valid for 4 months.

  • 20 classes, valid for 4 months
  • $13.75 a class
  • Use them across any class on the timetable
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Most members

Unlimited

$125per month, 6 month agreement

The plan most regular members are on.

  • Unlimited classes across the whole timetable
  • 6 month agreement
  • Every class coached, never a bag and a timer
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Boxing for Parkinson's runs separately at $165 for the month.

The 6 month Unlimited plan is billed monthly. Prices as published by the gym.

Community

A healing village, in their words

Kids on a Wednesday afternoon, members in their seventies at noon, and a class of adults at 5:30 who mostly could not throw a punch a year ago. Same room, same coaches, same turf.

Four senior members together on the turf floor after class
Members in a post-class huddle with hands stacked
Coach in front of the LET'S GO CHAMP mural
Bully-Proof Youth class lined up with their coaches

The community keeps growing

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members (and counting)

Every review says a version of the same thing: you walk in and someone talks to you. Book a class, come on your own or bring somebody, and see whether that holds up.

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Frequently asked questions

Straight answers. Ask us anything else when you book, or call and we will talk it through.

Ready when you are

Come in and do a round

Pick a class, turn up, and a coach will look after you from the door.

  • Turn up ten minutes early and someone will meet you at the door.
  • Bring trainers, a water bottle and something you do not mind sweating in.
  • You will be shown the stance, the guard and the footwork before you hit anything.
  • The coach works the mitts with you round by round, so you are never left to figure it out.
  • Nobody spars unless they ask to.

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Choose a class type, then pick a session that works for you.

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Upcoming Boxing for Fitness sessions

  • Rated 5.0 across 5 Google reviews
  • Every session is modified to your abilities
  • Beginners, seniors and non-contact all train here

Prefer to ask first? Call (813) 309-6868 or email boxinginabox@gmail.com