good books to read regarding training?

[j]

Ross training books are gold!

i haven't read his books, but i know a lot of his exercises. he is basically rediscovering much older training methods or putting a little spin on ones most of u guys are familiar with.

i like his work. he seems to know what he is doing.

[rufige]

thanks a lot fellas

i really appreciate it

[PunchDrunk]

yes, dempsey's book championship fighting is excellent. it is almost considered a bible for my fighting art.

he has many views that contradict with many trainers and commentators today.

example, teddy atlas thinks people are born punchers. that is bull****. and jack demspey would/did explain about why some people think they were born gifted. as dempsey put it, people forgot about how much hard work people had to do to get to where they are. actually, he has a whole chapter about punchers being made and not born.

but people on here still do not listen.

dempsey's book had great explanations on how certain punches get their power. i would people follow the book ore than their trainers sometimes. because, what demspey did was to go back and reexamine how and why things worked. my power punching techniques are very similar except i advocate being steady and rooted to the ground more than most boxers fight. it is good to remember that his book was not just about boxing, but about self defense.

other than dempsey's book, the best ones i know/have are about martial arts. they go into much more detail than any of the boxing books i have read with chamionship fighting being an exception. and i do have a collection of boxing books - including dempsey's book on fighting.

Well, obviously, you can improve your punching power by improving/perfecting your technique, but there is no doubt that some people are born with better abilities than others. It's like sprinting, you can't make a donkey into a race horse, but you can make it a fast donkey.

When it comes to punching, there's a physical side, a mental side, and a technical side. You can improve all of them, but some people are extremely talented, and some people are not. If you have a guy who is slow twitch dominant, bad coordination and no aggresssion, he is never going to be able to punch like Tyson. Never.

Claiming the opposite is like claiming that anybody can learn to run 100m in 9.72 seconds. It's just not going to happen.

[GTL]

i haven't read his books, but i know a lot of his exercises. he is basically rediscovering much older training methods or putting a little spin on ones most of u guys are familiar with.

i like his work. he seems to know what he is doing.

Do you want to use weights? Or stick to strickly bodyweight excercises?

Rosstraining.com
-Infinite Intensity (I have it) - Awesome book.. Read it and use it.
-Never Gymless is a bodyweight book which I've heard only good things about..