No need to apologize Bomber but thank you. And for the record I'm not against weight training for boxing if it's applied correctly. Unfortunately too many fighters get caught up in the amount of weight they're lifting or how much muscle they're adding and focus less on thier skill work. I've seen this firsthand so I'm not "clueless" on this subject. What I am against is people denouncing the "old school" way of training as archaic and not applicable anymore. That's wrong. Just like anyone denouncing weight training is wrong. They're both a means to an end...not the end itself. What works for one fighter may not work for another and vice versa. There's no cookie cutter approach to training. I think we can all at least agree to that. Many great champions from the past never touched a barbell or dumbbell and achieved greatness with just the basics while others did and achieved similar results. If my earlier posts seemed to offend those that firmly believe in weight training or the modern methods employed today Let me state it wasn't my intent. But let's not rebuke the old school methods and those that believe in them either. Joe Louis and Evander Holyfield trained differently but both achieved greatness right?
I agree with this. Sorry if I was a bit blunt yesterday, was a bad day :-(( think I misread half of what you originally posted.
I like this post Jeff. Sports is all about relative strength, the main goal if you are a boxer for example is to improve relative strength. Which is a whole another thread in itself. But i like the way, you wrote that. :good
4-5 reps are fine for explosive strength type stuff but boxing is a bit different, it's closer to weight losing/ maintaining training. If you want big muscles boxing training may be counterproductive.