Does anyone know any specific exercises dempsey did besides logging and mine work .I read he lifted weights,and lifted weights with pulleys.I seem to recall him in a video lifting weights on pulleys in ? maybe a punching or downward fashion,and read his huge deltoids helped his power,but does anyone know any specific exercises he did to get the power he had,Sharkey claimed DEMPSEY could hit you in the shoulder and dislocate it,in with what 28 ko,s in a row for a smaller heavy he seemed to have a punch hell
Reading his autobiography he says that when training for the first Tunney fight he threw rocks of varying sizes.
VERY INTERISTING I WONDER HOW,MAYBE IN A PUNCHING FASHION very quickly building wind at the same tyme,wich bio,if its DEMPSEY written by him and his daughter it should be in my mailbox any day,if not wich one?
Jack used to let his brother, Ernie slug him in the face and try to stay upright and chewed pine gum in between to toughen up that jaw. The story goes that Ernie had a glass one. His first ever ring was cranked up in a very small shed near his house, which instinctively helped him to move quickly. He also raced the horses on the field to get his legs sharper. His concentrated punches developed from hard times (often only having the energy for a quick finish) and mixing with all sorts of classy fighters on his travels. For years Jack was told he was 'too small' at many intervals so he put much passion into learning how to punch above his weight and reach the bigger man. This was as much as a physical discovery in his youth as a honed art with the experience. Regular training before fights included early morning runs laced with specific sparring (big and small opponents), bag work, sit-ups, neck cranking, speed ball, bicycle kicks and good old pulleys. -Dempsey utilized one of the first rowing machines in training for Tunney and undertook an unusual nutritional course when he downed a large portion of Olive oil and ended up throwing it back up.
Some of those old-time fighters used to soak their faces in brine to toughen up the skin to resist cuts.
YOu have to feel sorry for Ernie. Most people would be thought to have a glass joy, if the little brother who tested it was Jack Dempsey!
Believe it was an idea to rid him of all the bad toxins in his body and spruse up his digestion - something along those lines - yet he was ordered to consume a large amount of fatty oil and ended up being very ill.
I've read stories that Dempsey could do 200 pullups throughout the day Dempsey did sprints, calisthenics, band tension work and manual labor to build his body. He did alot of sparring, bagwork and shadowboxing for boxing training He explains in championship fighting that the most important part of power is control and usage of your bodyweight and delivering the force through the power line with proper punch technique.
I read once where Dempsey said that, when he worked in mines, he worked as a mucker, and that he enjoyed the work. A mucker shovels rock all day. For 8-10 hours, he fills one ton ore carts with rock, then pushes the full cart off of the spur onto the main track, where mules would take over. In 2007 I met a man that had spent his life mining underground. This guy had large, powerful hands, huge forearms, thick shoulders. I was 43 at the time and figured he was 51 or 2, tops. Turns out he was 71 and had mined underground for 56 years, since his parents abandoned him when he was 15. Very powerful looking individual.
