What do you guys think of weight lifting?

technique is so much more important than strength in any combat sport.

I've never seen anyone who focused their efforts on strength training rather than learning their trade go far.

 

Use to do similar stuff, 50 years ago when Training for Rock Climbing. Great Stuff you get the whole Package.

 

Useless if you plan on boxing for obvious reason! Roy Jones thought he could lift weights and look what happened to him! A good hobby for the less athletic people who want to get stronger!

 

That's not an impressive feat of strength at all, he uses his body momentum. Basically a kipping pull up. A one armed pull up without swinging himself up would take far more strength. Upper body strength is relatively unimportant in boxing anyway, the most important thing is the triple extension for power - the ankles, knees and hips. The good old back squat is the number one way to improve strength in the triple extension, and once you have a high level of strength you can work on RFD and transfer that strength into power, using plyos and olympic weightlifting if you can. It's fine doing push ups and pull ups for your upper body because you don't need to be too strong there. The back squat is also a far better 'core building' exercise than any variant of a sit up. Boxing is still caught up in dogma and old school BS.

 

Absolutely. You can be the most conditioned athlete in the world but if you come across somebody just as skilled as you but far stronger/powerful then you'll lose.
I'd much rather be strong and in average condition than be weak with the best conditioning in the world.

 

D_W, what you think of the box-squat for boxing training? I'm a big fan and I know the likes of DeFranco utilise this quite often with athletes.

 

i should become a circus artist?no thanks im a boxer,and btw i dont know if any boxer works in the circus.

 

Theres some Gymnasts, who have become Good Fighters.

 

He never said it's easy, he said it's not an impressive feat of strength, I agree.

This is what you seem to be saying. "Do this exercise you have to train specifically for a while to be able to complete which won't actually give you any real benefits or I won't agree with anything you say!" Do you realize how silly you sound?

 

Box squat is amazing for anything involving the hips.

 

So what? My point was you're basing your belief in someones knowledge on whether they can do some random bodyweight exercise you found on youtube. That is just dumb.