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    Deadlifting, Squating and benching, Ok for boxing?

    Hello, i want to gain a few pounds of muscle so want to do some heavy weight lifting until i get to my desired weight.
    However im afraid these heavy compound exercises with barbell could decline my speed and agility in sparring matches and boxing overall. I used to do bodyweight exercises for years especially my core and im pretty fast.
    Could someone enlighten me on this and if these exercise are indeed bad what is an other weight for my to gain weight without losing my speed?
    Last edited by GhostFighter; 07-04-2013, 11:32 AM.

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    Originally posted by GhostFighter View Post
    Hello, i want to gain a few pounds of muscle so want to do some heavy weight lifting until i get to my desired weight.
    However im afraid these heavy compound exercises with barbell could decline my speed and agility in sparring matches and boxing overall. I used to do bodyweight exercises for years especially my core and im pretty fast.
    Could someone enlighten me on this and if these exercise are indeed bad what is an other weight for my to gain weight without losing my speed?
    As a part in part guess without doing much look up in this from what I think...
    'think' Is that whilst lifting weights and so on it obviously builds muscle and makes you stronger and so on but it depends on what way you're training!

    A balanced training programme is what would be most beneficial this way you'd be less likely to sacrifice the flexibility/speed and agility another thing once finishing with a hard workout be sure to stretch out properly.
    I think we can deter the idea of being muscular being a negative especially when you look to guys like Mike Tyson he clearly had no problem with that muscular frame as he was the fastest mover and most devastating puncher.

    Train for explosive dynamic reactions and this won't be a problem although however I will say stamina will always be a issue with a mass amount of muscle.

    I'd go into your local gym or whatever gym you're at talk to one of the fitness instructors they would easily be able to give you the details you want and possibly a programme If you're nice enough.

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      They're good, a strong suggestion that you should consider on benching, is to not use a barbell, and instead use dumbells. A barbell is a slightly unnatural movement, is slightly bad for you shoulders/rotator cuffs. With dumbbells, there is more freedom for you body to move comfortably, instead of being forced to move one way. Also, your stabilizers are working a lot more to control the weight, its just a better workout.

      As far as deads and squats, mix up your set/rep schemes. I.e, one workout being heavy weight low reps, and your next workout being light weight high reps, as a simple example.

      Better be doing something for you hamstrings too, all kinds of problems will arise if you have an imbalance. I'd strongly recommend Romanian deadlifts. With the slight bend in knee, your hamstrings get blasted, aswell as your lower back getting a nice workout.

      Should also be looking at doing plyo workouts for your legs.

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