Boxers who weight lifted...

**#1Assassin** · 06-08-2009, 07:16 AM

Originally posted by Wyson

I know Tyson and Jones did some forms of weight lifting during their boxing career and i was wondering if anyone had a link to their workout routine...thanks all!

prime tyson didnt do weights.. except for shruggs. and i think roy only did weights when looking to move up to HW.

but to anwer your question, yea shruggs for tyson, and u can find clips of what roy did in a documentary (i think its still on youtube) were they followed him and his training leading up to the ruiz fight.

dont have the exact routine, sorry.

**JC Warrior** · 06-08-2009, 01:25 PM

Holyfield was notorious for weight lifting in his post Douglas fights with an emphasis on incline bench-press and front dumb-bell raises. The result of which were an awesome looking body, but dramatically lower punch outputs the rest of his career, stamina problems, and repeated shoulder injuries. Think twice about pursuing this one.

**Richie-G** · 06-08-2009, 01:26 PM

most top boxers do, nowadays

ross boxing has plenty of weight programmes etc.

**g0tcha** · 06-08-2009, 02:29 PM

tyson did more then just shrugs. tyson did squats and most likely deadlifts. as natural as his body was he built what we saw in the mainstream with hard work. i dont think there is a place that will say what he did exactly for his weight training. there is a possibility that it could be in one of cus'ds book but not 100%. jones did a pretty basic weight lifting routine. it wasnt anything geared towards boxing movements. it was mainly to promote muscle grown evenly around his body to put on raw weight instead of fat or water weight.

**hemichromis** · 06-08-2009, 02:56 PM

most do weights. the only reason not to is if you may then sturggle making weight.

of course there is sometimes too much of a good thing

**liam_48@msn.com** · 06-08-2009, 03:11 PM

Most of the greatest fighters ever never did weights so dont do them if you fight.

**holdthatthought** · 06-08-2009, 03:25 PM

Originally posted by liam_48@msn.com

Most of the greatest fighters ever never did weights so dont do them if you fight.

wrong.

most if not all of the recent good fighters do some form of weight lifting..

**liam_48@msn.com** · 06-08-2009, 03:38 PM

Originally posted by holdthatthought

wrong.

most if not all of the recent good fighters do some form of weight lifting..

If you actually read what i wrote then your wrong. "The Greatest fighters" Such as Duran, Robinson, Armstrong, Ali. probably 95% of the rings 100 greatest fighters never lifted weights, whatever they do after there prime shouldn't even be mentioned for example Mike Tyson, in his prime he never lifted weights and actually was a firm believer there was no good to come out of it.

**holdthatthought** · 06-08-2009, 04:11 PM

Originally posted by liam_48@msn.com

If you actually read what i wrote then your wrong. "The Greatest fighters" Such as Duran, Robinson, Armstrong, Ali. probably 95% of the rings 100 greatest fighters never lifted weights, whatever they do after there prime shouldn't even be mentioned for example Mike Tyson, in his prime he never lifted weights and actually was a firm believer there was no good to come out of it.

um.. Ali lifted weights... Tyson lifted weights throughout his whole career... If you want to get recent freddie roach said manny pacquiao lifts 2-3 times a week for endurance.

Do you seriously think Tyson got 16+ inch arms from not lifting? lmao

Boxers who weight lifted...