contradicting info on fast/slow twitch fibres

For your body to do repeated anaerobic work, you need a decent aerobic base.

And besides, how long is a training session? One to two hours? You need a decent aerobic base just to get a good workout in.

If you just do a whole lot of anaerobic work, sure, you're anaerobic output will increase, but the volume and number of repeated anaerobic bursts will increase only very slowly.

With an aerobic base in place, it is much easier to increase the volume of anaerobic work you can do.

 

In that case one of them is either undertraining or overtraining.

 

If a boxer did a standard boxing workout including jogging and sprints, bag work, pad work, floor excercises, and bodyweight excercises... that would be considered a full traditional boxing workout.

If you added another 45 minutes of full body resistance training 3 times a week, you would hardly be overtraining.

But, would that mean the traditional boxing workout is under-training?

Probably is...

 

Yes you would, unless the other person is not training as much as he can, it's basic logic really. The workout itself, the recovery time needed, it cannot be simply added unless the person is undertraining. If you can add 3 weight training sessions without giving up existing workouts, he would have been severely undertraining.

You forgot sparring in your full traditional boxing workout btw

 

Also, you could be busting your ass in that traditional boxing workout and not need to do resistance, or have the energy to.

 

Indeed. Besides the fact that bag work is actually resistance training

 

I was going to go there...Especially if you do some power boxing and punchouts to finish it off.

As a side note, I throw a **** load of punches during skill work as well, many other do too Im sure..

 

Excellent points.

 

Intermediate fibres are there too.