Lifting light and doing slow controlled movements?

[DA1CATAS]

The hypertrophy (muscle growth) zone is 6-12 reps. This is where you want to train if you want to gain mass. Remember that you need calories as well. Diet is a BIG part of it, but light weights won't do much for you.

will add endurance right?

[PunchDrunk]

I don't know that much about it bro but that's what I did and my arms got way bigger, maybe cos I was a skinny lil bastard to begin with lol!!

That's probably it. If your totally new to weights, anything will make you bigger. For a little while.

If you'd done 3-5 sets of 8, you'd probably have become even bigger. Not to mention stronger.

[PunchDrunk]

will add endurance right?

20 reps? sure, but not to a degree where I see much good for boxing. The kind of endurance you need for boxing is MUCH better trained through more specific exercises, and you know which ones I mean because you do them in the gym all the time. Leave conditioning in the boxing gym, and use the weights for something that they do better than anything else: To get strong.

[James78]

20 reps? sure, but not to a degree where I see much good for boxing. The kind of endurance you need for boxing is MUCH better trained through more specific exercises, and you know which ones I mean because you do them in the gym all the time. Leave conditioning in the boxing gym, and use the weights for something that they do better than anything else: To get strong.

PunchDrunk, you're a guy with a lot of experience, in your opinion would you say weight training helps a boxer? It's an old question I know, but just wanted your opinion brother.

[PunchDrunk]

PunchDrunk, you're a guy with a lot of experience, in your opinion would you say weight training helps a boxer? It's an old question I know, but just wanted your opinion brother.

Yes, certainly. IF you know what you're doing, and get an individualized program, which is being done with an experienced trainer, who knows strength training and has a clear picture of what boxing is all about, physically. There's also a million ways for it to be detrimental to your boxing, but all training is like that. Too much sparring is bad for you. The wrong kind of sparring is bad for you. Too much running, the wrong kind of running, running at the wrong time etc., is bad for you.

[Kayo]

The hypertrophy (muscle growth) zone is 6-12 reps. This is where you want to train if you want to gain mass. Remember that you need calories as well. Diet is a BIG part of it, but light weights won't do much for you.

their we go to all those who harassed me when i said it. Punchdrunk i need you to back me everytime this subject comes up lol

[PunchDrunk]

their we go to all those who harassed me when i said it. Punchdrunk i need you to back me everytime this subject comes up lol

Dude, just look at any weight lifting site on the net, find an article or 2 about it to back you up, and you know you're all set, because they all say the same thing. It's old news, really. Just challenge these guys to find one that says the opposite. Ain't gonna happen

[PROUD MEXICAN]

What you wanna do is lift the heaviest weights you can using controlled movements, so not too light or too heavy, whatever is just right for you.

EXACTLY. DON'T MAKE IT TOO COMPLICATED. TRAINING FAST, TRAINING SLOW, IT'S ALL THEORIES/STUDIES/VARIATIONS ANYWAY, NOT FACTS

[Trick]

EXACTLY. DON'T MAKE IT TOO COMPLICATED. TRAINING FAST, TRAINING SLOW, IT'S ALL THEORIES/STUDIES/VARIATIONS ANYWAY, NOT FACTS

Well you're kinda right, but PunchDrunk's take on it is a pretty solid way to look at it, trust me, otherwise, **** gets pretty complicated.

[phallus]

Yeah, but I feel like lifting lighter has better movement. While, when most people try to lift heavy. We cheat by swinging the weight and not move as slow as we should be moving. I've even seen ronnie coleman*that big ass dude* move really fast when lifting heavy weights. I thought moving slower in controlled movements would be better... Weight lifting confuses me

no, light weights just will not help you built mass, they are good for endurance training, but if you want to get bigger you need to go for bigger weights, correct exercise form and right nutrition, it helped me big time. Just go the darn website, they got good explanation.

maybe your technique is better with the lighter weights, but u won't get muscle mass, they'll just cut u up. lots of protein and clean carbs + heavy weight = muscle mass