Are the Guys with the Bodybuilding bodies?

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I think Relentless would step in the ring there is no question in my mind, just becuase the man doesnt participate in the sport itself doesnt mean he isnt willing to challenge himself.

 

To Ingar: I agree 100% with your post. There's nothing really to pick apart there. I'll kind of elaborate on mine a little more to kind of make you understand where I'm coming from. If you're going to focus on one thing only (IE: strength since this is the main topic), then you definitely need to be doing 3 days a week. I understand all about periodization and followed a 12 week plan myself when I was more active at the boxing gym. It's true that If I'm constantly challenging my body in twenty different categories, that I'll only improve just a little in each one, but that's MY goal. I guess a simple way of putting it is that I would rather be decent or good in every category, than to be great in one, and poor in others. There is NO perfect routine that will let you do everything. I know you know this and that's why your suggesting what you are. The only thing I was basically getting at was that strength is NOT the best attribute for a boxer.

 

i'm coaching at the moment, i train the juniors at my gym and will start training the seniors pretty soon, i've been injured for the last 5 months, as soon as i get better i will be back.

 

I could not agree more. Well put.

 

Okay, I get where you're coming from. It's best for some to be more versatile, so your approach definitely would work if you generally train alot.
You're saying that strength isn't the best attribute for boxing, but I have to say that really depends on the boxer, don't you agree?
I mean, some are born punchers (Type IIB-fiber athletes), some are born swatters (more Type I-fiber athletes). Some are sprinters, some are long distance runners. For people relying on knocking out most of their opponent, strength and power would be key.
If a puncher/sprinter is put on tons of endurance training, that would just take away the time he would spend enhancing his true fortè and he would just not improve where he more easily improves, thus never reaching his full potential.
I remember my coaches were putting in tons of endurance work for me when I was boxing. My strength dropped, and I would no longer KO my opponent that easily. And me being a sprinter by nature, I didn't get much of an effect from endurance training, even though I did tons of it with a professional approach for it. I simply don't have the genetically predisposition for it, I have very little enduring Type I muscle fibers. So I just ended up slower and weaker. More enduring, yes, but not so that I boxed any better, I boxed alot worse. I felt alot worse.
I'm 100% sure that I'm a better boxer now, without having boxed for over a year, just because I'm back to being all about speed and power.