The limits of bodyweight training?

[Pug1list]

Depends on genetics, most people wouldn't go that far. There are some quality body weight exercises such as chin ups, dips.

[GreatWhiteHype]

There is no reason to be alive if you can't do deadlifts.

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[Son of Gaul]

Originally Posted by Onepunch

press workouts and subsequent interviews to that effect rarely actually show what the fighter does.

example, Ali never actually shadowboxed under water.

You've got the burden of proof since you refuted his claim...not the other way around.

[scrap]

There are methods and techniques about, that make using weights redundent. Honest, its true, but for simplicity and for those who dont want to think carry on using them.

[viru§™]

Originally Posted by Son of Gaul

You've got the burden of proof since you refuted his claim...not the other way around.

If you make a claim you have to have proof. Refuting a claim requires proof but not if the initial claim has no proof itself. That's like a christian saying god exists and the atheist has to prove he doesn't even though there's no proof god exists in the first place.

[aramini]

Originally Posted by thejokerswild

So yeah i took that as a challange and anyone who does that on a regular basis is a friggen masochist.

Well, if you are very light these exercises are comparitively much much easier and less of a workout. I use weights because I feel like it takes too too long for body weight exercises to really increase my strength - here is a video from a while ago of bodyweight exercises I used to do a lot.

The surface area to volume of muscles makes a smaller muscle a more efficient one in terms of required oxygen. Thus a muscle twice as big is many times less oxygen efficient than a smaller muscle.


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[Kevin_Wright]

This is simple physics

force = mass X acceleration

Acceleration = explosiveness

force = mass X explosiveness

You can achieve explosiveness with or without weights.

[badr_hari]

Originally Posted by Kevin_Wright

This is simple physics

force = mass X acceleration

Acceleration = explosiveness

force = mass X explosiveness

You can achieve explosiveness with or without weights.

sure. Everybody has mass and some have more some less explosiveness, but the secret is how to activate your whole mass into the punch. Its all done with Technique.

[bballchump11]

Originally Posted by Onepunch

Bear in mind that most people who advocate solely using bodyweight exercises are not hard punchers.

Most professionals use weights, and most of the ones who deny it are lying.

Thomas Hearns didn't start using weights until he moved up in weight

[Vikaster]

I was reading and i dont know what to do now, lift or bodweight, like manassa said. heeelp -.-

[Primadonna Kool]

There are things body weight exercises can do, that weight training cannot do.

And there are things weight training can do, that bodyweight exercises cannot do.

That's why some people can bench over 150kg, but struggle at doing 100 push ups straight off.

[viru§™]

Originally Posted by Vikaster

I was reading and i dont know what to do now, lift or bodweight, like manassa said. heeelp -.-

What's your goal?

[Cut Me Mick]

Originally Posted by Primadonna Kool

There are things body weight exercises can do, that weight training cannot do.

And there are things weight training can do, that bodyweight exercises cannot do.

That's why some people can bench over 150kg, but struggle at doing 100 push ups straight off.

Don't really get this comment? This has nothing to do with it being a weight resistance or body weight exercise, it has more to do with the different energy systems and muscle fibres being used.

[El Puma]

Muscle ups are to BW exercises like new shoe,car and ***** smell is to men.

****ing awesome.

[ant-man]

Why separate 'bodyweight training' and 'weight training', as if you can only do one or the other?

It's like the cardio debate. Long slow vs high intensity intervals..

It's all good. Just do it all, and vary the mix according to your goals.