http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=320 According to this article the punching bag was invented in the 1800's. So what did all those great boxers of the Olympics use before the invention of the bag, I wonder?
What is a trainer trying to achieve when he trains a fighter? I think that if you ask a group of trainers this question, you would get a different answer every time.
Practice does not make perfect, Practicing perfect helps. But whats perfect for one, isnt for another. :nut
Does punching the bag build muscle? https://www.reddit.com/r/Boxing/comments/2hlwhy/scientific_punching_power_training/?
Some absolutely idiotic comments in that thread. Eccentric work is not good for strength, there are different muscle fibres for strength and size, muscle growth is due to mitochondria etc. Not one educated comment in that whole thread.
Boxing before the 1950's may as well have been a different sport. Early boxers are garbage, sport evolves.
You know that is not true, some of the old timers could fight 100, 3 minute rounds. Jack Johnson v Jim Jeffries, fight scheduled for 20, 3 minute rounds. Research has already been carried out proving that people from the early 1900s are fitter than modern day people. The shorten of rounds in modern day boxing is an indication of lack of conditioning on the part of boxers and a lack of knowledge of the trainers.
There is only perfection, each trainer can not have is own definition of what perfection is, what that indicates to me is than none of them know the meaning of perfection. It's like when some one tells you that everyone has their own truth, well there is only the truth!
Perfection is a human impossibility but in the pursuit of perfection we can get as close to it as humanly possible.
Name me 10 world records that still stand from back then... Face it: Athletes improve as the years go by.
Interesting thought, whats improved is equipment, plus the numbers who have the time to train, professionally. Jessi Owens in 36 ran 10.2 it was an Olympic record till 68. He ran it on a cinder track, we are told it would have been 9.7 on an all weather one. He was a Amateur. same thing apply s to most other athletic sports. In boxing gloves have changed so has footwear, believe it or not those 2 things changed the concept a lot.
