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Can anybody fault it at all?
The pros and cons of weightlifting for boxing will continue to be argued forever.
It's kind of proven pretty conclusively for example that the bench press is detrimental to overall boxing performance but it still finds its way into pro and top ammy regimes because it carries other benefits like strength and protection and it's damaging effects to the neural and musculoskeletal systems for boxers can be mitigated by periodization anyway.
But what about the deadlift?
I am of the opinion that, even if you are staunchly against weightlifting in general for boxing, you will find no logical fault with the deadlift as part of training, even if end of period phases!
Ironically, since the deadlift is the purest, heaviest and most total body test of strength one can really do, this seems rather surprising.
But as a movement, is really trains the entire posterior chain, firing them in the correct sequence at every joint for basically all athletic movements found in boxing. It does not interfere with neural pathways for explosive forward movements as a result. And every stabilizer muscle in the body, including all the niggly ones in the upper back get tuned in the proper way to support healthy joint strength and mobility.
A deadlift works the neck, lats, traps, deep muscles of the back, lateral stabilisers also, spine, glutes, hips, thighs and calves and shoulders like no other can. It is superior to size raises at lateral shoulder development. Superior to crunches at developing thickness in the abs and superior to the array of core exercises at developing it's entirety.
Whatever the cycle, you can benefit from the deadlift in your regime imo.
Thoughts?
The pros and cons of weightlifting for boxing will continue to be argued forever.
It's kind of proven pretty conclusively for example that the bench press is detrimental to overall boxing performance but it still finds its way into pro and top ammy regimes because it carries other benefits like strength and protection and it's damaging effects to the neural and musculoskeletal systems for boxers can be mitigated by periodization anyway.
But what about the deadlift?
I am of the opinion that, even if you are staunchly against weightlifting in general for boxing, you will find no logical fault with the deadlift as part of training, even if end of period phases!
Ironically, since the deadlift is the purest, heaviest and most total body test of strength one can really do, this seems rather surprising.
But as a movement, is really trains the entire posterior chain, firing them in the correct sequence at every joint for basically all athletic movements found in boxing. It does not interfere with neural pathways for explosive forward movements as a result. And every stabilizer muscle in the body, including all the niggly ones in the upper back get tuned in the proper way to support healthy joint strength and mobility.
A deadlift works the neck, lats, traps, deep muscles of the back, lateral stabilisers also, spine, glutes, hips, thighs and calves and shoulders like no other can. It is superior to size raises at lateral shoulder development. Superior to crunches at developing thickness in the abs and superior to the array of core exercises at developing it's entirety.
Whatever the cycle, you can benefit from the deadlift in your regime imo.
Thoughts?
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