workout routine

like i said a fighter doesn't have to lift weights but there are benefits, high reps of dips and pull ups will work strength endurance which a fighter definatly needs but there are so many other aspects that he will miss out,

and no you are not the only one, you are doing what you were taught,


you dont like weight training fair enough, but i would advise you to checkout interval training.

 

my lifting wasn't bad form and I never maxed out, that's why it was odd but not surprising, since it was heavy weight training. Mainly I focus on conditioning now along with boxing. The weights did burn me out even though it was only twice a week. They never increased my power, and I'm not a puncher anyway. Now I just run a lot, do some sprints, swim, do a lot of boxing work and just mix in push ups, pull ups, crunches, etc.

Being 127 lbs, how does it help you?

 

in My six years at Wild card never once did Freddy Roach or Pepper Roach tell me to go hit the weights, not once, and its rare that you will see any fighter doing much lifting in there mark my words on that.

 

looks like he doesn't give a ****....

 

pepper roach?? who's he???

like i said before you dont have to lift weights, but didn't roach hire justine fortune as a strength and conditioning coach? and if i remember correctly justine fortune was a journeyman boxer and a former powerlifter,

these days trainers dont have much to do with a fighters conditioning, thats why you see fighters with strength and conditioning coaches.

 

as i said before although i am not a runner/sprinter i have noticed very good gains on my sprint times, which shows i have become more explosive, i am able to bully around my sparring partners now, i got the idea from holyfield vs tyson where the smaller man holyfield was pushing around tyson, i am able to load up my punches faster than ever before meaning i am able to exert force quicker.

you dont have to lift weights to work these strength qualities, there are bodyweight variations,

and remember work the core as a whole.

 

Has that leg explosiveness witnessed in sprints translated over into boxing? Did the increase acceleration time on your punching come from the 5 fast reps of 60-70% weight/plyos?

 

Pepper Roach is Freddys brother who also fought but his career was cut short due to him ending up in the slammer, actually they both fought Bobby Chacon and Bobby said that had Pepper not gone to prison he would have done far better than Freddy.
Roach hired Justine as a strength and conditioning coach true, but that does not automaticly mean weight lifting, like I said you can go there any day of the week rarely will you see any of them in there do serious weight lifting.

 

bazooka man your twisting my words, i am not saying weight lifting is a must i'm saying there are benefits, thats why nowadays fighters have seperate s&c coaches, back in the days a trainer used to do all.

 

my combinations have become ALOT better from it, my sparring partners tell me my combinations hurt more than any one punch i throw, i am able to load up and fire shots quicker.

there is no one answer for that, i have been doing plyometrics, max load weight training, explosive weight training, and punch out drills, i believe all those are useless if you dont work on punch drills such as tabata.

 

if any of the fighters I work with use weights its only for squats and bench press nothing more, the rest is pull ups and dips