muscular chest a detriment to boxers?

Why would it effect your speed?

 

Muscular arms are definitely bad because the smaller your arms the faster your punches. The speed punches are thrown using the stomach muscles, not the chest or the arms. The power punches come from torque and from the leg muscles. You can generate more power by keeping your legs spread more widely apart and twisting your hips with your punches.

So the muscles you'd want to train are abs and legs. Abs are for speed and legs for power.

 

There is an awful lot more to it than that - you can't afford to think in terms of individual muscle groups. Boxing is about using all of your muscles in harmony (intermuscular coordination). Yes, you could say that excessive sarcoplasmic hypertrophy will limit your athletic abilities, but this doesn't mean you don't train certain body parts - you need to focus on what 'type' of training you are doing rather than what body part that you are training.

 

yeah because Roy Jones, Mike Tyson, Manny Pac and Floyd Mayweather are fast and we know how little muscle they have on their arms. Boxmaster? :rofl:rofl

 

This is good, for the most part. A proper punch usually develops power from the abs and legs. However, you may find in practice that you need arm muscles (particularly a good grip) for stability of the entire fist/arm connection.

Overall, it's pretty important to be strong throughout your body.

 

No, this is all bollocks.

 

It depends where the Big Toe is in relation to your arse and Ear

 

Also the Chest has a very important job to do, in supporting the Back and Oral stability. Its a balancing act

 

no it hasn't effected me doing heavy chest exercises you should develop an all round build and strength in my opinion because you use many muscles in the movements of boxing - quads, calves, back, abs, chest, arms and so on

 

Hardly, unless you're Ronnie Coleman size.

 

There comes a point where more hypertrophy means you have to trade in something. Where that is depends on your build, your style, how much you pace yourself, how relaxed you are, etc.

 

Oral??