shadowboxing with dumbells

[kryo]

Personally i have seen some benefits from shadowboxing with dumbells, i wouldnt suggest using too much weight, something small like 1-3 pounds.

By the way, getting boxing advices from hinduw is like getting sex tips by the pope.

Using anything more than 3-5 pounds is useless, in my opinion. The main reason for using dumbells is to improve your shoulder endurance, which means you will be able to keep your gloves up longer when under stress. Naturally if you train with heavier items and then take them away, you will be faster.

Look at Olympic sprinters.
Look at Baseball players.
Look at really any professional athlete.

Hinduw is just to naive to understand the simple concept.

[eman-resu]

I don't think it'd make you faster. Plyometrics probably would though, throwing a heavy ball with the punching motion.

I know weight lifting does nothing for pitching speed and that's probably a near analog for punching.

[kryo]

I don't think it'd make you faster. Plyometrics probably would though, throwing a heavy ball with the punching motion.

I know weight lifting does nothing for pitching speed and that's probably a near analog for punching.

It's all about how you lift weights, if you have a constructive regime, and if your coach/trainer knows what he's doing. There are many books on the matter; www.RossTraining.com is one of the most popular around here. He encorporates weights into his workout plan and he stands behind them the whole time. Manny Pacquiao, Fedor Emelianenko, Tyson, all these people used weights and are/were still faster than most, if not all.

Don't tell people weights are bad. Tell people weights must be used with instruction.

[eman-resu]

They help with other stuff, but I doubt it really matters for punching itself. You're just moving a 8-12oz object as fast as you can.

[kryo]

They help with other stuff, but I doubt it really matters for punching itself. You're just moving a 8-12oz object as fast as you can.

.. And as soon as you let go of the 8-12oz object, what are you left with?

[eman-resu]

That's a question of form, upper body strength won't help with that. You need a strong core and legs so you can stiffen up and not waste that energy.

Not saying it's useless, but I think the point where extra strength doesn't help is a pretty damn low level of strength, probably about what the average man can do.

[kryo]

That's a question of form, upper body strength won't help with that. You need a strong core and legs so you can stiffen up and not waste that energy.

So you're telling me that if you have good form and you train with added weight, nothing will come of it?

Also, squats are used religiously by many professional athletes as a way to improve there lower body/core strength.

Is this bad?

[smash ko]

id do more research if i was u in mean time try shadowing boxing with bag or sparring gloves on becuase that puts weight all ova ya hand

[eman-resu]

No, squats sound good, I'd bet good money they improve punching power more than the bench press does.

[kryo]

No, squats sound good, I'd bet good money they improve punching power more than the bench press does.

I agree 100%.

I was just stating that weights aren't bad.