Weight trainging for a boxer?

[Desaturated]

What are the key excercises a boxer should focus on?

of is it much the same?

[msagrain]

if your just starting i wouldnt bother weight training yet just concentrat on your boxing tecniche but if you do train do curls ect.. you can a good liltle program together

[SpeedKillz]

if your just starting i wouldnt bother weight training yet just concentrat on your boxing tecniche but if you do train do curls ect.. you can a good liltle program together

curls, and isolation exercises in general, are worthless for boxing. if u do want to lift, do compound movements like cleand and jerk, snatch, deadlift, squat. ur fightin, not training to look good on the beach

[kenshin112]

curls, and isolation exercises in general, are worthless for boxing. if u do want to lift, do compound movements like cleand and jerk, snatch, deadlift, squat. ur fightin, not training to look good on the beach

Haha couldnt agree more

[Darkstranger]

curls, and isolation exercises in general, are worthless for boxing. if u do want to lift, do compound movements like cleand and jerk, snatch, deadlift, squat. ur fightin, not training to look good on the beach

I agree.

My background of weightlifting has made me musclebound a little slow, but the years of deadlifts and squats have given me lots of power.

[nedcmk1]

- check out workout 1 in the workouts page. his mod 1 workout is insane.

look at his book "from the ground up". it is free download n the site. It is a great start ti the ballistic lifts an some oly lifts. great info from an olympian

- it can be overwhelming. I have really put myself to the edge with this.

[bobweaver]

Curls are the worst possible thing you could do for boxing they will shorten your reach even if you stretch a lot im tellin you

[msagrain]

Curls are the worst possible thing you could do for boxing they will shorten your reach even if you stretch a lot im tellin you

thats the most ******s things iv ever heard they don't shorten your reach at all if anything its going to strech your arm but it might stop the groth in your arm if your bones are still develpoing

[SpeedKillz]

thats the most ******s things iv ever heard they don't shorten your reach at all if anything its going to strech your arm but it might stop the groth in your arm if your bones are still develpoing

are you ****ing SEIOUS?? poster, please ignore this comment. curls add size to your bicep, which EXTEND ur arm, if ur biceps are overdeveloped, ur punching reach will be shorter cuz ur arm will not extend this much. even if u lift high reps low weight for endurance i still wouldnt do any bicep exercises. that is the one muscle that i think is totally worthless for boxing. some say it helps in the clinch, but its not ur biceps that are clinchin the dude and spinnin him, its ur legs and ur back, so please dont do curls, unless u want to anyway of course, go right ahead, but the question was weights for boxing, and theres ur answer.

[Feint]

Of course, the best thing you can do is work or your technique. That will make you a better boxer more than anything else. But strength is also very important. A good punch is a combination of technique, speed, and power. You leave one of these out any you will not have a powerful punch.

Also, it is a fallacy that muscle will make you slower. This was the same thing baseball players believed for many years and we see what happened to that assumption. Now, if you are as huge as Olympic weightlifters or people that compete in bodybuilding, then yes, you would be slower but only because that muscle is unnatural. The human body was not designed to look like that. To become that big takes a single-minded dedication to training, nutrition, and supplements. The common person will never look like that. Look at all the people who work construction, if this assumption was true they would all look like monsters. They are strong, but not abnormally big.

So, don't worry about being "too big" because its like saying you don't want to take up the piano because you don't want to be a concert virtuoso. In either case, it probably isn't going to happen.

I would suggest staring with push-ups and sit-ups (correct one, not anything that will hurt your back). That alone will build strength. Don't worry about the weights right now.