Usefullness of biceps in boxing?

so a car moving 1 mph would do the same to your head as a baseball moving 3000 mph?

the power is the same but they sure as hell arnt going to doing the same thing to your head.

power alone does not calculate the force of an impact.

 

1*x =x*1

the power is going to be the same, the actual transfer of energy is completely different.

 

not at all.

hold a piece of paper with 1 hand and punch through it with the other.

it just moves out of the way, unless you punch fast enough your never going to punch through it.

people, heads its the same thing the person is just going to fall over if even that considering boxers can just roll the punch.

power means nothing what you want is transfer of power at impact.

 

no no no, elasticity weight and acceleration of impacted object.

like when you calculate power by taking the speed acceleration and weight of your punch that has absolutely nothing to do with impact and only tells you the amount of power required to throw the punch.

 

when you take go and buy an accelerometer to calculate the force of your punch, you put the accelerometer on the bag, not your fist.

 

nah man naw, only half of the equation.

 

7ennox schoolin people on ESB!

 

:rofl

 

Thanks for sharing this, I'm a big fan of Gervais :good

 

You would be ****ed without them.

 

Clive says biceps are the most important muscle in boxing

 

I've heard this bull throughout my years in many different sports. You want a balanced body. Sports specific training just results in injuries due to muscle imbalances. There are no show muscles. You want good strong biceps that are in correct proportion with you other muscles.

If you don't train your biceps your back training will begin to fall behind and you are left with a common posture problem when your chest is stronger than your back and you end up with a protracted shoulder girdle.

 

In my opinion biceps is important, not so much triceps but important.Some peopel say , how to get bigger biceps, beacuse they think more to look better than be a better fighter :E

 

Some of my vocabulary may be wrong here so somebody correct me if I screw it up.

Your biceps are very important with throwing punches, even a straight punch. A lot of times it is an agonist muscle (antagonist muscles in a movement do the movement, agonist movements are muscles used in supporting a movement by creating equal tension in the opposite movement and keep you from hurting yourself). If your bicep is too weak you can end up hyperextending your elbow a lot.

My biceps don't ever get too sore when I'm going through a boxing workout or sparring, but if I'm really working on hooks it's the muscles that keeps me from throwing it as willingly like the shoulder makes you not want to jab when it's tired. Having well developed biceps (which doesn't mean "twin peak bodybuilder biceps") will also benefit you if you get hit in the bicep. I have had no worse injury boxing then I have getting a hook to my bicep and not being able to extend my arm for days. Having a hardened, developed muscle won't prevent that but it will make it less prone to being injured until your body starts getting used to being hit.

That's about all I can think of for the bicep, other then being in a clinch and holding a guy to you. It's not a huge muscle to focus on but it can definitely be a weak link.

 

I always get confused when people talk about "sport specific." Sport specific to me is "deadlifts are important for fighting because they work the posterior chain, add them in your routine" or "if you want to get better at punching . . . . punch more."

What exactly is "sport specific" training?