Power Training Tips

[TheAuthority]

Hard sparring everyday is a no. Light sparring, go for it.

If you hard spar everyday I gaurentee you will end up with some type of brain damage. When you are hard sparring you are pretty much fighting, your brain cant take shots like that everyday and not take damage.

As far as weights, lets take sprinters for example. Most of there speed comes naturally, and practicing sprints. Everything else is just working on shaving fractions of seconds off their time (of course these fractions of seconds can matter, especially at a world class level).

Sprinters can lift all they want but they wont improve unless they go out and practice sprinting. In turn, they can never lift a weight but go out, practice sprinting and still put on speed.

The weights can help, yes. But its not what you want to focus on to work on power.

So if you want to work on power get on the heavy bag. I don't think anything can come close to the heavy as far as working on power (once you have proper technique).

Probably not relevant to the thread but, world class sprinters spend more time lifting weights and doing plyometrics than actually sprinting.

[nivek535]

lol? If you want to be a world class fighter than you have to spar daily when in training. Your eyes/timing will never adjust if you don't, as well it is THE BEST way to build endurance for fighting. Brain Damage LoL?............Rockin'

full contact sparring everyday? ok

I wasn't the one to bring it up............. Rockin'

did i not emphasize on full contact sparring?

Hard sparring everyday is a no. Light sparring, go for it.

If you hard spar everyday I gaurentee you will end up with some type of brain damage. When you are hard sparring you are pretty much fighting, your brain cant take shots like that everyday and not take damage.

As far as weights, lets take sprinters for example. Most of there speed comes naturally, and practicing sprints. Everything else is just working on shaving fractions of seconds off their time (of course these fractions of seconds can matter, especially at a world class level).

Sprinters can lift all they want but they wont improve unless they go out and practice sprinting. In turn, they can never lift a weight but go out, practice sprinting and still put on speed.

The weights can help, yes. But its not what you want to focus on to work on power.

So if you want to work on power get on the heavy bag. I don't think anything can come close to the heavy as far as working on power (once you have proper technique).

so basically you quoted my reply to rockin, to reiterate what i stated in my first post? well thank you...

[Beavis_5000]

full contact sparring everyday? ok

did i not emphasize on full contact sparring?

so basically you quoted my reply to rockin, to reiterate what i stated in my first post? well thank you...

Your welcome my friend.

[Beavis_5000]

Probably not relevant to the thread but, world class sprinters spend more time lifting weights and doing plyometrics than actually sprinting.

I thought they actually worked on technique more than anything but I could wrong.

Even without weights they could still go out and practice and put on speed.

If they lift and to plyo's without going out and practicing sprints then they wont put on speed.

Of course the best option is to do both. But practice is the number one priority.

Even if they spend more time lifting that is still supplementary to there practice.

[nivek535]

i dont want to say too much, since i dont understand the mechanics of sprinting and science behind it..

but i would say same thing, plyometrics/work for explosiveness, lift enough for a strong foundation, or lift to keep that strong base/core. but all of this is of course, done after perfecting technique