Boxing and Weightlifting

[karategan]

Strength is huge advantage in the ring and it allows to you to control the pace of the fight. Some trainers argue that packing on muscle from weightlifting will affect your coordination and reflexes because your body will be heavier and slower. This is incorrect because by dieting correctly and lifting HEAVY weights you can strip a couple of pounds of fat and tighten up your muscles which will increase your strength. However weightlifting should not be the core of a boxer's workout. The core of your workout should consist of cardio exercises like shadow boxing, jump roping, hittng the heavy bag, and jogging. If you do cardio in addition to the weightlifting then you will not become slower. All that cardio should keep you real lean with a low bodyfat percentage. Your speed and strength will improve and you will be a much tougher competitor in the ring.

Correction. For maximum strength, you go for heavy weights in a 1-5 rep range, not light to moderate. You won't become Arnold so long as you diet correctly, which is what you already mentioned.

To add in, you should only do compound movements (exercises that activate multiple joints and muscles). The main ones are squats, bench, military/overhead press, deadlifts, and powercleans/rows. Never do isolation movements like bicep curls, tricep extensions, etc. Well you can but only as auxiliary to compound movements, but not to be focused on

[Danny Gunz]

hey with the way you are right now you might even go pro at some point but your never going to be an atg unless you educate your self with lifting and percisely the muscles you want to work and start running 20+ miles a week

Running 4 or 5 miles at a time is somewhat pointless also seeing as jogging is an aeorbic exercise and boxing is an anaerobic sport.

[SBleeder]

Running 4 or 5 miles at a time is somewhat pointless also seeing as jogging is an aeorbic exercise and boxing is an anaerobic sport.

Boxing is both an aerobic sport and an anaerobic sport. Running long distances is anything but pointless.

[Danny Gunz]

Boxing is both an aerobic sport and an anaerobic sport. Running long distances is anything but pointless.

I should have worded that differently. Your right its not pointless, but usually when someone commits to running 4 miles a day that is the bulk of their roadwork.

Seeing as boxing is about 75% anaerobic it would make sense to commit mostly to that aspect with sprints and intervals rather then jogging. Running long distances will help but that wont be as effective.

[HyperUppercut]

4. with compond exercises and weight lifting diffrent weights would be required for diffrent muscles to get the proper exercise. since you do compound movements the muscles your focusing on are going to be built the way you want but the support muscles that are also involved in the lift and have no need to even be worked except for the lift may very well be just getting bigger with out actually getting stronger while neither of which is really needed.

The rest of the post is horrible. and just to point it out, the bigger a muscle gets the stronger it gets. Thats a fact that can't be proven wrong.

[Spartacus Sully]

The rest of the post is horrible. and just to point it out, the bigger a muscle gets the stronger it gets. Thats a fact that can't be proven wrong.

any thing in the 3 set 8-12 rep 50-70% 1 rep max promotes only hypertrophy and nothing else, you may get slight strength gains but nothing compared to the mass to strength gains ratio if you were doing 3-5 reps 3 sets 70-90% 1 rep max.

if say you have your work out set up for say 70-90% for one muscle it might be only 50-70% for other muscles involved thus in the weight range for hypertrophy.

Running 4 or 5 miles at a time is somewhat pointless also seeing as jogging is an aeorbic exercise and boxing is an anaerobic sport.

for an ATG 4-5 miles isnt all that much ali would do 7 calhagze would do 5 mayweather does 8 marciano would do up to 20 fitzsimmons and jeffries would do around 14-15

in the ring its an anerobic sport in the corner its all arobic.

good anerobic means you wont have as much to recover between rounds, good arobic means that reguardless of how taxed you are you should have no problem recovering between rounds.

if anything it at the very least should be 66% aerobic and 33% arobic.

[mushahadeen]

Sugar Ray Leonard, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson when he didn't suck, Ali, etc. all ran 5 miles+. I'll take that over these 24 Hour Fitness dudes who are like "oh that's pointless". It's like, "What? You make a living off housewives who want to lose 15 lbs. **** you!"

[Chip2006uk]

I dont generally lift weights, but when I do it'll only be like once a week as a supplement to boxing training and only with light weights and high quick reps to build endurance

[Danny Gunz]

for an ATG 4-5 miles isnt all that much ali would do 7 calhagze would do 5 mayweather does 8 marciano would do up to 20 fitzsimmons and jeffries would do around 14-15

in the ring its an anerobic sport in the corner its all arobic.

good anerobic means you wont have as much to recover between rounds, good arobic means that reguardless of how taxed you are you should have no problem recovering between rounds.

if anything it at the very least should be 66% aerobic and 33% arobic.

You gotta remember we arent trying to talk about the training and nutrition of the best fighters ever. These threads are for the new or amateur fighters who are looking for advice.

Im sure the great fighters are running plenty but I doubt there are many amateur fighters running 8 miles a day.

[Spartacus Sully]

You gotta remember we arent trying to talk about the training and nutrition of the best fighters ever. These threads are for the new or amateur fighters who are looking for advice.

Im sure the great fighters are running plenty but I doubt there are many amateur fighters running 8 miles a day.

hey with the way you are right now you might even go pro at some pointbut your never going to be an atg unless you educate your self with lifting and percisely the muscles you want to work and start running 20+ miles a week

did you read what you quoted?