Currently. I know Carl Froch dosen't. Any others?
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What Boxers Don't Lift Weights?
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I should think most of them don't. It's all about having a lean and ripped fighting frame. If you've been training for boxing twenty years and don't have a chest like a prime Arnie there is a reason for that - it would be counterproductive!
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Originally posted by Shattered Jaw View PostI should think most of them don't. It's all about having a lean and ripped fighting frame. If you've been training for boxing twenty years and don't have a chest like a prime Arnie there is a reason for that - it would be counterproductive!
David Haye, Lucian Bute, Ricky Hatton, John Murray, etc etc. Heck even Archie Moore did.
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Weights play a bigger part in Boxing nowadays than people think, loads of people come up with bull**** like "it slows you down", it doesn't if you know how to use them, think about it if your doing press ups, pullups, etc. your still pushing and pulling on a weighted resistance, using weights is no different providing you use them properly, a lot of people are ignorant and just go with what some others think when reality is a lot of the stuff people come out with is bull****.
As shattered glass just said, of course you don't need a ripped chest like Arnie, but at the end of the day if your doing that sort of weight training whilst Boxing then you don't know what your doing, you do weights to gain strength within your weight class, explosiveness, endurance, etc. There are different types of weight training, many different types.
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Originally posted by ИATAS206 View PostI would imagine light lifting is preferable, meaning light weights, more reps, rather than heavy lifting. I think that's obvious actually.
http://www.rosstraining.com/articles...htraining.html
Little website that goes into some more detail, parts of it I don't understand well... but still backs up the point that weights in Boxing isn't as bad as people may think.
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