Is boxing worth the strength loss??

[platinummatt!]

Versatile he didn't mention girls. And apart from the situation you mentioned and maybe in the ring are chicks really gonna dig that? If I came home at night and told my chick how Id busted up 3 guys that day and she got all excited, Id be worried. And it may very well be time to look for a new girlfriend.


It's probably best to just stick with what you enjoy. I'm sure you can do both but one may suffer

[BrooklynBomber]

LOl, you don't lose strength in boxing.


Your bench press numbers might go down(due to dieting/losing weight, not boxing) but your functional strength will be with you.

[potatoes]

I don't know how many of you have a solid weightlifting background, but I just want your opinion...is boxing really worth losing all the hard earned strength that you gained in the gym?? reason I'm asking is cuz ever since I started losing weight through boxing and running, my strengths been decreasing even though I've been trying to maintain it through strength training sessions. I feel more fitter and stronger in a different sense, but it's getting harder to reflect that when I'm hitting the weights. I'm not thinking of quitting or anything like that, but I just want some opinions from guys like verse or anyone else.

The so called "strength" you gain by lifting weights is largely artificial and temporary. No amount of "strength" training will increase your speed nor your boxing skill nor your punching power potential. During the course of traditional boxing training the "strength" you obtain is natural and enduring. Boxing is not about strength, it is about hitting and not getting hit. It does not matter how strong the man is in front of you, if he can't hit you, he can't hurt you. Billy Conn didn't need to be as strong as Joe Louis to give him a boxing lesson. It was only after he got the silly idea he could give Louis a punching lesson that he got knockout out!

[BrooklynBomber]

In fact, you will most likely become stronger. Your deadlift(the best strength indicator in weight lifting) will go up due to changes in neural charge.

[batista]

The so called "strength" you gain by lifting weights is largely artificial and temporary. No amount of "strength" training will increase your speed nor your boxing skill nor your punching power potential

It won't increase boxing skill, but can certainly improve punching power and speed. There have been russian scientififc tests that have proved it on boxers and martial artists. I will try too find the material today some time.

[Southpaw16]

In fact, you will most likely become stronger. Your deadlift(the best strength indicator in weight lifting) will go up due to changes in neural charge.

clean and jerk is the best strength indicator in weight lifting in my opinion. that might also go up as a result of boxing.

[ForemanCrossArm]

I really don't understand this strength loss.. I would think that most fighters are abnormally strong for their weights, so maybe you're losing strength if you're losing weight. But think about it like this, you're losing you base and anything that loses weight at the base becomes weaker. It's a fact of physics, life, science, math, all that ****.

[shawn_]

These Russian scientific tests wouldn't happen to be from rocky 4 would they?

[BmoreBrawler]

good thread dude, the question for me is this(I cant fight anymore due to injury so I just do it to stay in shape):

I can do weightlifting, get buff and therefore mad bitches, or do boxing workouts, have more fun, and still function playing bball, but way less women.

[SpeedKillz]

i weight lifted alot some years back when boxing was on the back burner for various reasons. i lifted 5-6 days a week for 2+ years and at a weight of 177 i benched 315 once for a max. then i stopped liftin and went back to full out boxing training. at a weight of 165 i benched 325 for a max once. no bull****.
if ur trainin ur ass of wit boxing - bags, pads, sparring, floorwork, med ball, etc. u will get way way stronger, losing weight or not, pound for pound u will be much strronger than the average weight lifter. i dono bout u, but i would rather be strong as a bull, then jus look strong as a bull.

yea everywhere i go everyone is always hangin off the meatheads ****, cuz they scared of him and all the girls are all over him and ****, but put that cat outside in the streets with me, and he'll jus be another meatball.....

boxing is the greatest workout in the world, period. but u CAN lift weights and box and be a fast, strong, powerful machine.