Who here uses weights in their training?

there is more than one way to do a bench press and a squat, there is a way to train slow twitch and there is a way to train fast twitch and using proper momentum of the whole body for the lift and lower reps rather than trying to isolate certain muscles and higher reps is what i would say seperates the way a bodybuilder would do a bench press to the way someone was training for strength would do a bench press, i was not assuming your a bodybuilder but was making a simple example of what a strength workout might look like without going into too much thought of guessing what strength exercises you might actually be doing at the moment? maybe you should have gone into more detail about what your refering to by ''weights'' im sorry my opinion is not what you wanted to hear, but like i said ive been there done that and i used to train for functional strength not just bulk im a believer of technique and sport specific type resistance training rather than weights now.

 

You don't really need the strength from weight lifting for boxing. Although when the muscles tighten it does make your punches faster as long as your not too bulky. But punches should be coming from the legs and hips if your doing it right.

 

you got no idea

 

Power and explosion comes from muscle contraction, think about it .

 

You're right, it's not a requirement to increase your punching power via lifting heavy weights.

When you get stronger the muscles contract harder and faster. I've never seen anyone that's too bulky to throw a punch.

You should be doing squats and deadlifts to strengthen your hips and legs if you're training right. Stronger hips and legs = potentialy higher punching power.

 

No weights, only sports specific resistance training.

 

I'm not saying it doesn't work, I find this to be more what suits me. I did loads of heavy manual labour in the past, at that stage weights would have been severe overkill. Now I simply don't feel like I need it, I can get my "power fix" so to speak from bag work. All I need is a very heavy and hard bag. The best thing to me is that I concurrently work all aspects of the physical fitness required for boxing besides just power, and technique at the same time.

 

Your not training smart in my opinion.

 

Yeah I lift 3-4 times a week. And do boxing practice twice a week. But then again my overall goal is just health/fitness. I'm not an aspiring pro boxer or anything.

 

weights is resistance, whether its sports specific with a medicine ball, throwing it at a wall to improve straight punches.

anyone who says weights are not useful to a boxers routine IMO hasn't ever done proper combat athlete conditioning.

There is a difference between lifting weights and using weights for combat athlete conditioning,

 

you get your power fix from hitting a heavy bag...ahahahahahah

you should never ever give advise again about training....

 

The question was, who uses weights in training. Not Ressistance and the application of Feel to the CNS. Ressitance to me is using Rubber or any form of Elasticity, also Parachutes and the Like. Helps recruit better feel to the antagonist muscles while training, Helps with the Fulcrams adaptability through Feel the Bodys early warning system.

 

yeah i know what the question was, weights can be done in more ways then just a traditional bench press or shoulder press.

anything that is causing a resistance is resiatance. Weights come under that category.

and yes resistance bands is another good form of conditioning.

 

A certain "Mike Tyson" did the exact same thing :good

Heavy bag work is resistance training. You may not like it because weights give you a boner, but deal with it.

How's the stanazol injecting working for you by the way?