5 exercises for KO power

If you decide to lift weights, you have to find the right balance. Boxer's don't need to workout the same way powerlifters do. If you get too caught up in weightlifting, it will take away from your skills. It's all about balance. You don't need to be the strongest guy in the gym. Also, a punch is not a push. It's more like a bullet than a missile.

 

Who claimed that would ever happen?

 

Lol.

 

atsch

 

Never answer a question with a question. The name of the thread seems to imply it, maybe I read into it. I personally with my own ears heard Holyfield's strength couch, a former Mr. Olympia, claim that weight training can improve punching power. I believe weight training will increase your all around general strength, but I am not sure whether that will transfer to punching power. I was hoping for examples, which I gather do not exist. And if it doesn't increase punching power, the logical question is "why do it at all?". Like I said, I am not against weight training the way Dundee, Frazier, and Quarry were, I just wanted concrete examples of a transformation due to it.

 

How can you increase strength without increasing power at the same time? That's the real question you should be asking yourself. Everything else being equal if you get stronger you'd be defying the laws of physics if you didn't get more powerful.

 

Every time somebody asks for an example on this forum it's always so ridiculous. What do you expect, some guy that punched like a 10 year old girl, started lifting weights then a month later could punch like Tyson?

Why do people find it so desperately difficult to believe that if you become stronger overall then your punching power increases?

You tell any trainee strength/sports coach that becoming stronger increases power in athletic movements and they'll accept it because it's a fact. Say the same to a boxer or a boxing coach and they feel they can dispute this fact with little to **** all knowledge in that area.

Why is it so incredibly difficult for the boxing community to accept that a stronger more powerful athlete can equate to a more powerful punch?

 

Weight Lifting is good for strengthening the body so that no one part of the body is weak when you throw a punch. An example being this, when you throw the left hook it starts in the hip and foot then ends in the fist, if your shoulder is weak then you aren't going to be able to follow through all of the way and thus you won't be able to punch harder. Weights come into play by strengthening the muscles required to punch so that there is no one weak point in the movement.

Of course you can achieve this through calisthenics but the amount of volume that calisthenics can be too long and inefficient. If you are physically stronger than your opponent, then it helps in controlling them in the ring.

I don't think weight training is particularly great for fighters who rely/relied on being elusive in the ring like Ali.

 

Thank you. That is a very well thought out logical reply. I appreciate it.

 

If you can extend your hips and knees with more force won't that increase your power? How can it not? What calisthenics can you do to develop strength and power through the triple extension to the extent weightlifting can? Can you not make strong stronger, if you're eliminating weakness is that not what you're doing?

There are far bigger more agile athletes than Ali who lift heavy weights, look at the NFL.

Btw the shoulders don't have to be particularly strong for boxing, they just need smooth scapular movement and good endurance. It's the hips and knees that need to be strong to generate power, you need force from the bottom of the kinetic chain to produce a good whip at the top of it.

 

That's your confirmation bias talking.

 

I don't know why you're trying to argue with my post, I was pretty much reinforcing what you said.

No, there cannot be a single weak point in the punch movement. Calisthenics include isometrics and plyometrics. Box jumps and horizontal jumps can be used just as well for triple extension.

Football players are irrelevant in this matter because they don't have to throw punches and be elusive for 15 rounds.

 

Ill look at that cheers

 

Having a good resistance routine is not just about trying to punch harder.
Theres a lot of work done up close for example pushing and shoving elbows and forearms leaning on and barging. Been stronger and more powerful helps here as well, as it isnt as taxing.

 

Nobody has mentioned working with power bands, always overlooked.