Mayweather lifting weights for the Pacquiao fight

well like 2 pound bells and medicine ball

 

He'll walk into the ring on fight night at 180 pounds refuse to be weighed and be like "Deal with it."

 

He's most likely using weights as a conditioning tool.

If he's developing strength, better have some primo PEDs to diminish the fatigue his muscles will have after being conditioned for short heavy effort instead of long, high intensity work.

Weights can help or hinder depending on whether they are used properly.

 

You are so stupid it's not funny. Long duration and high intensity are contradictory, that's not how human physiology works.

 

So there's no difference between lifting a heavyweight once and lifting a light several times with no rest for a given duration of time?

 

Of course there's a difference, one improves your strength, power, and efficiency, and results in central adaptations.
The other causes minor metabolic fatigue, and helps you to stay weak for a longer time.

 

I don't think he's scared or anything. But the way he trains more for this fight shows that he sees Manny as a higher level of competition. I just hope Manny trains harder than usual as Floyd will be the toughest boxer he will ever face.

 

Every top athlete from any sport where power, speed and explosiveness is required will be lifting weights.
Floyd telling anyone during the last 10years he don't lift, is ****ing with them. What do you think he's doing the 6months or so he's not in camp?

 

Butch, I seem to remember you as a good poster, so don't start talking about a subject you know nothing about.
Yes Floyd is lifting, and yes that's for increases in strength to give a base to build explosiveness from.

That would be a problem for conditioning if it was ALL he was doing, but it's not.

 

Yes they do. How do you think Floyd moved up in weight? Or Pacquiao? Just eating junk food?

 

It's true weights don't help you except to give you more explosiveness.

This training makes sense if he's going for the Marquez style KO.
But it's more than likely just for psychological intimidation effect.

Floyd isn't going to come straight at Pacquiao and try to KO him.

 

I kind of disagree - those old school guys are insistent that it reduces speed and flexibility and increases oxygen requirements (a bigger muscle requires much more oxygen because of surface to volume ratio - adding an inch to a muscle creates a lot more volume that needs to be oxygenated to function optimally). He does "weights" insofar as a few basic strength exercises and that neck weight harness like Hopkins (you need a strong neck to take shots) but I really don't think Floyd has put himself through a continuous lifting regimen like Mosley or Holyfield. My friend says that when Roger Mayweather was doing some coaching way back in the day at Barry's Boxing in Las Vegas he handed out a little sheet of instructions and at the top of it was "Don't ever do weights".

 

This is an age old debate, weights =power vs weights =slowness.
I've worked out in both extremes, one club no weights vs weights. The club that concentrated on boxing without weights had The higher percent of sucess than the one doing weights. This is basically because weights teach to become stronger at being slower.
Now for all the muscle freaks, this is boxing, not your staged WWE, so pls FO.

 

Weights = Steroids

 

That's ****. First of all an inch of muscle is a hell of a lot. And what do you think capillaries and mitochondria are for? Bigger muscle fibres are fast twitch fibres, they either don't need oxygen or they are fast twitch fibres that are fatigue resistant. The oxygen requirements for boxing aren't high, it's not a pure endurance sport.
Reducing speed and flexibility is one of the stupidest old myths there is. Show me boxers as fast and flexible as the top olympic weightlifters, you can't. Why are baseball pitchers, football players, sprinters etc. so fast and mobile with all the weightlifting they do?
Floyd has focused on weightlifting for his legs as he's moved up, his strength coach talks about it in the Boxing News magazine Floyd special.