Weight loss affects power?

[KOComplaints]

so I just lost 15 kg in the span of two months of boxing. And I feel like my punches are weaker now than when I started.

Some times when I hit my straight right I can make the 180 pound bag move but I just feel like my punches has gotten WAY weaker. I am wearing Adidas 200 energy and they feel REAL HEAVY. I don't know if my arms are weak or if they really are having (I weight 100kg).

So do you know what the problem might be?

[Redd Foxx]

Your health is probably shyt from dropping weight too quick. When you lose it that fast, you tend to cannibalize muscle in the process. Get yourself on a balanced diet and keep training. Your strength will come back.

[Mr.MojoRisin']

Like Foxx said, sounds like you dropped too much too fast. 16 kg is around 35 lbs. Last summer I dropped like 9 lbs in a week and felt horrible. Couldnt even train I was so weak. I started eating more meat drinking tons more water which helped bring me back to normal.

[juggernaut666]

Like Foxx said, sounds like you dropped too much too fast. 16 kg is around 35 lbs. Last summer I dropped like 9 lbs in a week and felt horrible. Couldnt even train I was so weak. I started eating more meat drinking tons more water which helped bring me back to normal.

You dropped 9 pounds ? What did you look like?

[juggernaut666]

Dropping weight will almost always effect power ,this is why weight classes in boxing are in place . A natural puncher will benefit from speed if he drops weight bc the speed will increase force but mass usually gives one more power .

Ex: M.Tyson at 218 hit with more speed and accuracy /technique than he did at any weight over 225 bc he had a short frame he weighed 235 vs Lewis. So the extra weight never helped him in a 5'10 build .

I definatly notice a differance with even 5 pounds added . There is no problem thats just physics of more weight is generally going to give you more power , no different than say a trained skinny 135 pounder compared to a average 200 pounder....the 200 pounder who doesn't even train would most likely still hit harder .

Theres a big differance in 35 pounds , i knew a few power lifters turned body builders who lost alot of strength going from bulk muscle to fit proportion muscle .Same aspect of weight loss ,which effects strength .

[Unbirth]

Less body mass = less pwer than you prev had. Logic.

[Furn]

That's too much weight loss too quick unless you were like obese.

Should aim for no more than 1% of your weight a week.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

losing weight too fast is a no no, avoid it all cost, should only be losing about 4-6 lbs a month and that is if your fat.

Also weight loss can affect your punching power cause now you dont have that extra 36lbs of body weight to throw behind your punch anymore.

[Tjbenz]

Probably not power as much as energy

[KOComplaints]

Update on this thread:

I have gotten my punching power "back" if you can even call it that. My punches feel just as hard if not harder now than they did when I first started at 115kg. I weight 100kg now but now they feel harder?

the body sure is a strange thing