Weight Training vs Cardiovascular conditioning?

A blend of course. If you're saying pick just one well a fighter with nothing but weight training is going to be very severely lacking in wind and aerobic stamina.

 

You've got to have cardiovascular conditioning...it is a must...If you're gassed in a fight, you get a beating, and you will lose...

 

Today, I'd say the ideal deal fighter requires a strong balance of strength and condition along with cardio training as well. In the earlier days however, more emphasis seemed to be placed on running and sparring more than things like weight training.

Strength and conditioning involving the use of weights, medicine Balls, cables, etc is essential for developing power, along with strengthening the bones, and maintaining muscle mass. It also gives fighters strength needed for breaking clinches and handling opponents on the inside. Cardio training is important for building long term indurance in fights, and maintaining weight as well.

 

Not at all - the older era's did their own types of strength training as well and the present definitely blends both, or are you going back to the 1800's?

Weights and perfect implementatio of them are great but the older era's had some reasonable and effective boxing specific exercises etc.

 

Cardiovascular conditioning, of course. Weight training is merely a piece of the puzzle. Cardiovascular conditioning is still the main goal.

Question: What do you think is the best way to achieve cardiovascular conditioning? Most now think it is high intensity, interval work. Most fighters are now using explosive movements to become more explosive.

Anyway, to make a long story short... If you have fighters of equal talent and skill level face one another, then the one who has the best conditioning methods will win. Boxing is more anaerobic than aerobic. If your training is more aerobic than anaerobic, you've missed your goal.

 

Well, Genius, while you're asking...

Why does Jones have more left at 39, than Ray Leonard at 34?

Why is Evander Holyfield better at 39 than Muhammad Ali is at 39?

It has to be because Jones and Holyfield have many more genetic gifts than Ali or Leonard. That, or weight training got in the way. Oh, I forgot. We're trying to discredit weight training here.

Ali and Leonard lasted a lot longer than Jones and Holyfield because they didn't weight train. That makes sense.

 

Modern emphasis in sports is on functional lean muscle mass. Going back in years people used to think weights and the like made you muscular but slow - we have since learned we can put on muscle mass without losing speed and sometimes actually gaining it. Tiger Woods has pioneered (certainly at the highest profile) weight training for golfers and Holyfield did similar things for boxing. Holyfield's scientific bulking up to heavyweight was superbly done (unless i see evidence of artificial assistance) and particularly noteworthy.

I am by no means saying this means the fighters of today beat era X but modern strength training sure don't hurt them.

 

Maybe you should look up old training techniques, they had thier own forms of weight training that weren't our modern methods, but they were there none-the-less.

Pulleys- A ton of fighters used them from the early twentieth century until even today, these are a form of weight training as they do have weights on them.

Shadowboxing with weights- Been happening since the 1900's if thats not weight training in your book then you need to take a basic strength training course.

Funnythings they did- Many old boxers chopped down trees (weight training right there), rowed boat (counts as any rowing motion in modern gyms), etc

Existing- During their years before boxing many boxers manual labor jobs count as weight training, Bob Fitzsimmons was a blacksmith, Rocky Marciano worked on a shoe convaery that reqiured physical strenght, Jack Dempsey was a miner and lumberjack all of these are comprable to weight training.

So they definately weight trained, if not in the perfect modern sense of the term.

BTW, if trained properly with the right lifts and the proper sets and reps, weight training increases speed, strength and endurance. Thus it helps.