Olympic Weight Lifting, coupled with some power lifting exercises are the way forward. The reason why most people see no benefit from weight lifting is because, they don't know how to train. To many isolation exercises, to many guys messing around on machines, and no real hardcore *******s. Weight Lifting in sports like boxing, sprinting, rugby and things like that. Is all about improving power to weight ratio, at the end of the day. You can work on your conditioning and endurance outside of the gym. A great training routine for a boxer, or in any sport. Is like building a engineering a formula one car, think of your body in detail.
I dont think u understand, e.g theres no point doing bicep curls all th time 4 boxing, work the predominant muscles that r engaged in boxing and punchin like the chest, back, quads, then do the weight training exercises accordingly. Btw punching with light 2.0 kg dumbbells is a good conditioning tool for boxers. Do timed bursts with a set rest, good 4 shoulder conditioning.
Totally agree, resistance training should be a part of every serious boxers routine. The olympic lifts help train the muscles to work in chains to generate power. Isolation exercises are largely a waste of time. Resistance training also increases neuromuscular communication between the muscles and CNS. The core is also worked via these chain exercises. Improved co-ordination and balance results. Think about it, are you going to be a lesser fighter if you are stronger, more co-ordinated and more explosive? Obviously not. Kool knows his stuff.
Conditioners target each muscle that is part of the punching chain. Any weakness in the chain leads to dimished power capabilities. If this makes no sense then you (the reader) should look at your punching technique and break it down to individual stages of movement.
Conditioning is predominantly aerobic, couple that with anerobic explosive compound lifts and sets, it mimics boxings criteria, this is my overall point, doing both is strength and conditioning, u gota remember th twitch muscle fibres aswel
Ha ha thank **** for that Lefty. I was about to say this guy is on another level to me because I didn't have a clue what he was on about..
But there are far better ways to target the Rotator Cuff muscles. Thats like saying: when hitting the heavy bag you are training your abdominals. Or Erector Spinae.... or triceps. Or biceps.
But what he was trying to say is if you don't individually train your rotator cuffs, you will injure your shoulder, which is wrong. All you need is correct technique and they won't get injured, it has nohting to do with training them individually.
Interestingly that exercise at the begining tightens the pectorial muscles. Which puts more strain on the rotators.
Like the entire body? :huh I do understand. There is nothing sports specific about lifting weights, no matter which muscles you target. It's like saying cycling is sports specific because it targets the legs, and the legs are used in boxing. It's bull****. Punching with weights, especially 2kg ones, is horrific to your joints and will **** up your biomechanics.
Sometimes you don't even know where to start, I wanted to reply to that post but I gave up. Simply everything is wrong.
