Hey guys. I'd like to know what weight of dumbells I should curl for optimum speed and power. I'm a novice amateur first fight august-september 2010:bbb I am 16 yo 6ft 2 88kg (I'm still way to fat I plan on getting to 75kg although my coach wants me to fight at 81kg).I'm also quite a good boxer good jab straight right hand I try to be slick when i can too:smoke not a brawler/slugger in me haha
what about uppercuts,hooks and retractions of straights? Also I'm trying to lose weight not gain(although i dont mind replacing fat with muscle)
If you are 16 years old 6ft 2 and 88kg don't go any lower then 81 kg. Especially if your coach tells you so. Losing to much weight will screw up your progression and your body is still developing. As far as weight/strenght training goes. At this age do push-ups and other calisthenics. Buy some weights and play around with them but don't use to much weight. How many times a week do you go/ can you go to the boxing gym?
bicepts are not useless, but isolating biceps with curls is not very smart you can do set of chinups or weighted pullups and work out everything from bicepts to back to chest.
I go twice a week training and sparring. I have been doin pull ups etc using the iron gym. I can curl 18kg relatively well 10+ times but I get told this makes useless muscle but I see loads of boxers with massive biceps compared to me. This may sound like a stupid question but is this how strong i will be or will i get MAN strength as i hit 18-20 most guys i spar say i have good speed/power already but people constantly say i'll get stronger as i get older any truth to this?
You will naturally gain a lot of strenght when you are in your early 20's. You will also get more heavy. My guess is you being 88kg at 16 years old, you will eventually become a heavyweight. 91kg max. For now 81kg will probably be a good weight but don't go lower. Also I think boxing twice a week is not enough to fight competitive. You need to do more boxing training in a boxing gym. Weight training can't make up for that. Weight training should be something you do on top of your boxing training. At the VERY least you should train 3 times a week in the boxing gym. Four times would be much more like it tough. If the gym you train at is not open so much go somewhere else. I know you probably feel loyal and all but it is your ass who has to step in that ring. And go running.
Agreed. No bicep curls for you. Instead do pullups, chin-ups, bent-over rows, seated rows, lat-pulldowns, any pulling motion really, but no bicep curls. Also balance out the pulling motions with presses: push-ups, dips, military presses, bench presses. And you shouldn't neglect your lower-body, so do a combination of squats, lunges, deadlifts, etc. Try to balance things out. And if boxing is your main thing, don't neglect your boxing work out. I've met some guys that get carried away with the weight lifting and forget about boxing specific exercises altogether.
3-4 pounders. Shadow box with them. Do burnouts with them. Mass is useless. Since you are a boxer you must have the arm endurance and pop to keep a strong brawler off of you. Getting "buff" won't help much.
Spoken in ignorance. Mass in the "buff" understanding is sarcoplasmic fluid. Its the ****ing gas of the anaerobic metabolism. The less you have of it the less arm endurance you have. But it has to be balanced with the understanding that increased mass has its own drawbacks.
My question is...why are bicep curls the only weight-lifting exercise you asked about? You must be doing other ones too, right? And the amount of weight you use is determined by what you can handle. Then you scale it based on what your goals are. A trainer in your gym would be able to answer this question EASILY.