My boxing coach told me to not lift weights anymore

I would if i was you, thoroughly talk to your coach and talk about it, say it is benefiting your boxing etc but also listen to what the coach says also. Deep down if it was me, i would move to another coach as weight workouts in my opinion what you are doing benefit you in every way possible physical and mentally strong and fit etc just depends on if you agree what the coach says to you why not to do it. I now as a fact weight training is benefiting me in a physical and mental way which is a big boost for boxing etc
Hope this helps....

 

If you feel it helps you, ignore him. In the end weight lifting is a personal choice, it has **** all to do with him.

Tell him he's ignorant and needs to do some reasearch on weight lifting.

 

Listen to your coach, assuming he has your best interest at heart.

 

What is your routine?

 

Were you a stocky guy before you started lifting? If you're naturally stocky, you're going to stay that way whether you lift or not.

 

yeah your routine seems straight. You may just have an oldschool trainer

 

If your gaining muscle your gaining weight, if your goal is to drop some weight then gaining muscle is counterproductive to your aim.

To drop weight you need to have a calorie deficit in your diet and if you have that your going to lose muscle whether you lift or not, you will lose weight faster if you don't lift probably because you will lose more muscle if your not lifting and muscle weighs more than fat.

Given that your trainers aim is to get you to drop some weight and presumably that is what you need to do to get to your fighting weight I would follow his advice or tell him you want to fight at a higher weight.

 

so your problem is eating too much?:huh

 

doing a lot of weight lifting is undoubtedly going to make you gain weight via muscle gain... there's a fine balance; pac for example wouldnt want to be lifting hardcore weights and gaining mass and being a 5'6 middlweight...

 

EATING too much is counterproductive. Lol if he was gaining too much muscle, he would keep gaining because it would benefit him. He obviously has fat to lose.

Not true at all. EATING above maintenance will make you gain weight. Lifting while losing weight is a great idea because you preserve your muscle mass and lose less strength. Muscle is easily burned while losing weight and lifting prevents this. No idea why Pac was brought into this so I will ignore that part.:huh

 

Tell him you don't have the discipline to lose weight because that's obviously the case. If he thinks it's lifting causing the non existent weight loss, why don't you just tell him the truth? If you want to compete, lose the weight. If not, keep gaining. It has nothing to do with lifting and everything to do with your discipline to drop the calories.

 

listen to your coach for a bit like, 2+ weeks.

if you havnt gotten any better then tell your coach you tried not lifting for the past 2+ weeks and you feel like you have gotten worse at boxing...he should respect that you took his advice and gave it a try...everybodys diffrent and the coach cant expect the same thing to work for every one, if you find lifting is what works best for you and you actually have personal experience with lifting and not lifting while training then hes going to have to listen to you, and because you did try what he said there is no disrespect involved.

who knows...you might even improve...

 

Except that it does concern him because it conflicts with the training he wants the thread starter to do. And no lifting weights can not be added without sacrifice.