European training techniques.

Box with weights on their wrists (Arthur Abraham) to increase speed and explosiveness.


I wrap ankle weights(5lbs) around my wrists and shadowbox, they help alot.

 

You get more explosive and stronger from using weights in your hands or around your wrists, yes. But you don't get faster. :good

 

I thought this forsure made you faster atsch
What else can i do to increase speed, besides shadowboxing ?

 

Think fast, be very loose. Wheter you're punching on the floor to ceiling ball, heavy bag, speed ball, always think fast. Also, proper technique must be hundred percent correct.

 

Wherever you go its pretty much all the same usual stuff.

 

You get faster by moving faster. If weights were to make you faster than the man with the highest squat would be the fastest man in the world.

 

hmm, I noticed that if I use small weights in shadowboxing I get faster after a while. However you gotta think fast, be relaxed and know what you are doing. But in my opinion you build speed by shadowbox with weights, small weights that is.
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Strength will add speed, but only to a certain point. As you begin your boxing training and gain strenght, you will notice that your power and speed will increase as well. There will come a point when basic (general) strength training will not increase speed. This is the time for direct and sport specific speed drills. Speed bag, medicine ball slams, assorted Olympic lifts like cleans and jerks can even be used. Punching with weight can make your shoulders very injury prone depending on the amount of weight, so I would limit it to very light weights. Working on explosive power will increase your boxing related speed.

 

Yeah that's how it feels for me, and 5lbs is not a lot, that's the most i go.

 

i think the weights give you better endurance (the weight is on the muscles that hold your hands up, not the ones that punch) but i doubt it makes you faster.

i'm trying to find an article about this baseball study i read a while back that said the guys that used weighted bats to warm up felt faster with a normal bat, but in a slow motion video they were the same speed and some were slightly slower. it's just a mental thing.

for me working on explosive strength, and focusing on speed and staying loose while i shadowbox/hit the pads helps the most and i'm pretty fast for a 200 lber. a trainer at my gym believes in exhausting your muscles by doing circuits and weighted exercises and then shadowboxing while focusing on speed.

try tiring yourself out by doing some weighted shadowboxing, and then for the last few rounds put them away and concentrate on firing off as fast as you can. it's not all about muscles either, you have to improve that link between your mind and your fists.

 

It FEELS like you're faster, simply because you just dropped 5 pounds off your arms at one time. So it's a big difference for your body