How is weights incorporated in Pacquaio's training?

Either they are right, or the Former Proffesor of Osteopthy at Harvard is talking Bollocks

 

Manassa and Bumpy have stopped posting all of a sudden. No more insults to throw my way guys?

 

Also try to limit Carboydrates in you're diet, and don't eat ever after 9 o'clock.

Also its better to do you're long runs, in the morning before breakfast.

And if you are going to do weights, only use light weights and do real high reps.

 

The correct way to gain muscle aswell...

Is to eat loads of fatty foods, and then turn the fat into muscle.

 

I was out mate, I have a life. I have a good (yet slender) body, too, and it's all from my own bodyweight routine. Not to mention, I've noticed massive strength gains especially since doing planches which really do require enormous strength from muscles that aren't often used. My **** works, and not just for me, and I'm really not looking to get bulky.

I never disagreed with any of the strength or bulking information you gave - however, from a boxer's perspective, I don't believe in it. Why? Because a boxer should ideally stay around his natural weight and use the physical advantages he's got. Like me at 6ft; I'm a natural 140lbs give or take, and I've always enjoyed a healthy height advantage 95% of the time.

Remember we're talking boxing, not sprinting or weight lifting. I think it's you who's misunderstood me and have now decided to take the divine being approach, trying to belittle me as though I'm saying 'this and this is best for building objective power, not that.'

Now you can tell me why planches and one armed pull ups don't build power, despite 99% of the population not being about to perform one repetition.

 

I'm afraid that those qualifications get less and less credible as the sentence goes on, but good on you about being honest in your numbers and the years training. Whats the money like in that field?

A lot of guys have this **** habit of saying "well I've only been training for strength for 18 months and have these numbers" "nice, did you not train before that" "no, just some bodybuilding for about 10 years"

I started 3 years ago in April, and I think my progress has been ok but far from optimal, only in the last 3 months or so do I fully know what I need to do and have the confidence in my planning to make some real gains. A 200kg squat is no longer crackpipe, it is a goal for December.

 

You're only a natural 140lbs because you have never eaten large amounts, have always been fit, always done a sport, and not into lifting weights? And you're no older than 25?

Just a shot in the dark here

I don't understand this "natural weight" thing.. If you exercise a lot and eat a lot, you will get bigger. If you exercise a lot and don't eat a lot, you will be smaller.

I'm 5"9.5, and I am now having to come to terms with the fact I will never box in anything but the heavyweight -91kg class realistically.
2 years ago I was 70kg. Which one of the two is my natural weight?
I was 80kg the year before that, is that my natural weight? Or is 70? Or is 90?

So I think for someone seriously interested in amateur boxing, hone your skills and let yourself fill out as your hunger and training wants you to. If you have to make 2-3lbs of weight for a class, do it.

 

22, have nearly always exercised, but I do eat a lot. I'll tell you why I'm slim; ectomorph. I'm infact an 'extreme ectomorph' who has a good shape, if that makes sense. Small joints n' that, although I've always seemed a lot stronger (for as long as I can remember, I was always beating kids in arm wrestles who were a lot bigger than me).

I was into weight lifting at one point but didn't take it seriously enough, however, now that I'm filling out and doing the heavier bodyweight stuff I've put on some muscle.

Note: I rarely perform repetitions over about fifteen. Most of my stuff is one armed push ups, planches, negative one armed pull ups (not quite there yet), pull ups (maxing out at 17-18, dead hang), one legged squats, one legged squat jumps... A few times a week you'll catch me busting out twenty or twenty five close grip push ups, or twenty five squats with the girlfriend on my back or something like that.

Well this is it. Some boxers really do bulk up, start to look 'rounded' and have to then play with the bigger boys who have always hit that hard. 'Natural' weight is talking of a maintainable state where you don't have to make a massive bulking effort to stay there. Many, many fighters in history have moved up in weight only to succumb to the strength and power they receive there which is why in my opinion it's much more optimal for a fighter to stay slim, strong and endurable around his natural weight class.

 

That's why you're 140lbs
Nothing to do with ectomorph, mesomorph etc.

And most people maintain their weight through eating, if I stopped lifting for a couple of years I wouldn't shrink back to however big I was at 17 when I stopped growing.

Same way that every other athlete, unless they had trouble staying at a specific weight, does.

 

You're just plain skinny, mate. You may be strong to other skinny people but not to people who know how to train.

Lifting weights does not make you magically gain weight. So what you're saying there shows you have no clue... again.

Na. Just thought I'd be a bit of a ***** since you wanted to insult me for some random reason.

Lefty has already explained this. Why you keep going back to this irrelevant subject I don't know.

 

:huh

The weight I'm at now is what I've been for a long time, i.e. perfect for boxing. I'm no longer boxing so it would be nice to put on some more muscle for Summer, although I'm certainly not looking for massively quick gains or anything like that.

 

One word... BOLLOCKS. You weigh 140lbs, you DO NOT eat a lot.

This is a good excuse people use for being stuipidly skinny and not eating enough.

Riiiight.

6' and 140lbs, you think you're "filling out"? Lol.

There is no such thing as "natural weight". Bodyweight comes down to how much you eat and train, simple as that.

 

Sorry I missed your sentence.
Put on some more muscle for summer, although not looking for quick gains, is an oxymoron I'm afraid.
You'll be lucky to put on 2-3lbs of real muscle in that time.

 

Agreed on all fronts really but to each their own, not trying to attack the man so all is well really.

I am also 22, and have NEVER been one of those skinny guys. I only started exercising with any consistency when I was 17. So that's why I will never be one of Those Guys.

 

Nothing to do with ectomorph, mesomorph? Of course it is, I'm sorry, but that's a silly statement. I am naturally a delicate build; my bones are literally on the smaller side. It's possible for me to put on weight but I'd really have to live for it as I don't gain muscle easily. But then I'm happy where I'm at so it's all good.