weight lifting for boxing

[KMerc]

Can anyone give me their exact weight lifting routine and/or prescribe me a solid 4-5 day routine. Ive been llifting for the past 1 1/2 and am knolegible on the subject but i wanted to see what contenders weight lifting workouts are like.

[David06]

Can anyone give me their exact weight lifting routine and/or prescribe me a solid 4-5 day routine. Ive been llifting for the past 1 1/2 and am knolegible on the subject but i wanted to see what contenders weight lifting workouts are like.

Man...you're going to get all kinds of answers here. People are very split on the idea of weightlifting in boxing. For some, it's the new thing, and it's an essential part of training. Some of the more old school guys will say you shouldn't do it. To be honest, I think the jury's still out on whether or not it is good for you.

[PunchDrunk]

Ask anyone who knows about physiology. It's an undeniable fact, that you can only try to dispute, if you don't ****ing know anything about it: Strength training is effective for boxing.

Anybody saying you become slow if you do strength training say that because they don't ****ing know anything about it.

Anybody who says you become too big and heavy say that because they don't ****ing know.
Strength training mainly focuses on the neural effects, meaning that you get stronger and faster because of adaptations in your nervous system, not because of increased muscle size.

Looking at a juiced up bodybuilder, saying he's slow, and too big for boxing is the standard argument. And it doesn't hold any ****ing relevance to STRENGTH TRAINING. strength training and bodybuilding are NOT the same thing. Yes, both use dumbells, barbells etc., but the methodologies are vastly different. 100m sprinters and marathon runners don't train the same way, and get vastly different results. "But it's running? Must be the same thing..." **** off...

As with all other kinds of training, "what's good for you" depends on what you do, how much you do of it, and when. It's not smart to run a marathon the day before a fight. That doesn't mean "the jury's still out" on whether running interval sprints a month before a fight is good for you. Only if you're a total numbskull, who can't tell the difference between the two things.

[CletusVanDamme]

It was believed to decrease handspeed and slow a fighter down, Shane Mosley and Terry Norris would disagree with that.

[itliangladiator]

Little mad are we?

[RockyMarcianofan00]

Punch Drunk is correct...

Weight Lifting is a good part of training as long as its strength training and not bodybuilding...Its all in how you do your sets....

[PunchDrunk]

I'm just sick of the bull**** that keeps floating around, based on hearsay. Unless you know about motor units, muscle fiber types, neural adaptations, and a bunch of other ****, that is required to understand HOW this stuff works, you have nothing to contribute, and should shut the **** up. (not you specifically) Because that is the base knowledge needed to understand how it works and why it works, and what you need to do to make it work for you.

[RockyMarcianofan00]

I'm just sick of the bull**** that keeps floating around, based on hearsay. Unless you know about motor units, muscle fiber types, neural adaptations, and a bunch of other ****, that is required to understand HOW this stuff works, you have nothing to contribute, and should shut the **** up. (not you specifically) Because that is the base knowledge needed to understand how it works and why it works, and what you need to do to make it work for you.

I'm know a limited amount about Twitch Fibers, and Neural Adapters, etc, however I do know how your supposed to weight lift for boxing, so I suppose thats enough for me...

[PunchDrunk]

Sure, I'm talking about all the "smart" people who claim it makes you slow, with absolutely no evidence to back it up. It's usually "Manny Stewart says it's no good, and he's a great trainer." Well, being a great trainer doesn't make you a perfect trainer, and it's quite possible to be a great trainer OR fighter, even though there's things you don't know.

I have a hard time picturing these old shoolers hitting the books after the gym, reading up on their physiology and training theory. So basically, they made the most of what knowledge they had (and obviously they've learned so much stuff that isn't in a book), and became great, in spite of not knowing about this stuff.

[David06]

Hey PunchDrunk, instead of flipping out and bitching about how wrong everyone is, why don't you maybe give us some examples of strength training? It's easy to say, Oh you're so wrong I'm sick of this BS!"

But if you give us a little more information, maybe we can help other people in the future when they ask questions like this...Unless you want to be the forum police on weightlifting posts.