Should I buy a heavy bag for home?
Eventually, not first. A bag repeats whatever you already do, good or bad. Get the technique honest, then buy one and use it properly.
Not yet.
A heavy bag is a repetition machine. It gives back exactly what you put in, so if your feet are wrong and your hand comes back low, you have bought a very expensive device for practising that two thousand times.
What helps between sessions costs nothing. Ten minutes of shadow boxing in the garage on the two or three things I sent you home with. No impact, no bad habits getting hammered in, and it is the drill every fighter still does at every level.
Once the basics hold up, buy one. Heavier is better, because a light bag swings away and teaches you to chase it. Hanging beats free-standing if your building allows it, so check what the joists can take, and ask about the noise before you drill anything: whether this bothers your neighbors and training in a garage. Work in rounds off a timer, not to a playlist, or you will flail for twenty minutes and call it training.
Gloves come before the bag in the buying order, and bag gloves are not sparring gloves: what gloves to buy. Wrap your hands for bag rounds, every time, because that is where wrists get hurt: do I need to wrap my hands. And I bring the rest, so check what gear I bring before you spend anything at all.
Ask me before you order. I have been using and selling this stuff since 2008 and I will tell you what suits your space and what you do not need yet.
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