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Old 08-27-2008, 04:40 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Ah weights and boxing, probably the most argued point in boxing, but the least understood. I have 15 years of boxing training and started lifting about 6 years after I started boxing. Lifting itself doesn't affect speed, but how you lift does. Bodybuilding slows you down as you put on a lot of uneccessary muscle. I am a heavyweight right now, but utilize powerlifting techniques and a few selected other lifting techniques and still have as much speed as a welterweight. The key is to focus on explosive power movements like your Benchpress (close and wide), Squats, Deadlifts, Log lifts (clean and press) or power press), curls, and rows. The KISS (Keep it simple, stupid) method. Many sports in general discounted the benefits of weight training until the last decade. Baseball included, and look at what weight training and some other chemical help has done. As for flyweights not lifting, that would make sense, as they would cease to be fly weight, as it isn't natural for most ment to be that size anyway and weights would make it that more difficult.
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Old 08-27-2008, 05:31 PM   #12 (permalink)
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well a lot of heavy weights lift weights because they dont really care about speed as much as power. You will rarely ever see lightweights in the weight room
You don't see Horse Jockeys lifting weights either.
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