You don't lift weights to be a fighter in the first place. Weight training is supportive of primary fight training. All I'm saying is explosive strength from power lifting is beneficial.
Slow lifts, as I explained earlier will help release more hormone and testosterone for growth.. Increased free testosterone helps in ways from fat loss to bedroom performance, so long as its not on the level of a body builder who has no balls or ***** left. They are both good, and its probably good to mess with a weight you can perform reps of 8-20 with. You start getting below 8 reps and your starting on the type of weight that increases mass. You want to be lean, I'd try to stay around 10+ good focused reps per set. I'd alternate between going slow to fast on a bi weekly basis to keep the muscles constantly guessing, and to track your progress. I'm guessing mixing them up will surely increase overall performance.
Elite Bodybuilders wish that they could build muscle so easily... If you have time then using a boxing specific weight training program will benefit.
I know what you were saying but I still don't think the speeds of a jab and a lift compare. It's a **** analogy.
No. It would be general 'sports specific' that is fit into a boxing training program. If possible. Obviously some do fine without it. This seems to be a heated topic for reasons that are not entirely rational. With other techniques one is prepared to 'take it or leave it', but I believe that there is some type of knee jerk reaction from a small faction in boxing that see the old timers as God-like figures.
Indeed weights seem to be special in this regards, but not just from the no crowd. There is no other technique advocated as much as weights. At least half of the threads on this board is about weights. The irrationality goes both ways. Saying you don't do weights is guaranteed to give a number of very negative reactions. I don't see the old timers as god-like figures, quite the opposite in fact.
I'm not even against weights btw, my position regarding weights is often misunderstood. I like cross training a lot, you can't spar 3 hours a day and the more different things you do, the more athletic you become. I just don't value strength that much higher than all other aspects of physical fitness. What I oppose is doing 4 strength specific workouts a week, just like I oppose doing 4 agility specific workouts a week, or doing 4 cardiovascular specific workouts a week. My philosophy on boxing is that all aspects of fitness are just as important.
Same muscles, fast twitch are the ones that wont grant you a whole lot of endurance. When you look at beasts, compare a cheetah to an african dog, tell me which one's muscle makeup is primarily fast twitch (type 2) versus slow twitch (type 2) muscle fibers. A boxer is more like a dog, who needs energy for long durations. Its best to have a combo of fast twitch and slow twitch muscles for a boxer. The fast twitch muscles are going to use glycogen much faster than the slow twitch.
