Is weight lifting good or bad for a boxer?

Question

Is weight lifting good or bad for a boxer?

Answer 1

it can be bad if you lift the wrong way for boxing. training is sports specific. while training for boxing you don't want to lift like a bodybuilder. the best type of lifting and exercise is high intensity interval training. go to crossfit.com for some good information about training.here is an example of a great workout you can do sometimes...

run a 400 (.25 of a mile)

5 pull-ups

10 push-ups

15 sit-ups

do this for 8 rounds

if you have any specific questions please feel free to send me a message

Answer 2

Heavy weight lifting is extremely bad for a boxer...the muscle fibers get use to the slow movements and cant fire off at the full potential...stick to traditional boxing excercises and lifting light weights at a fast speed

Answer 3

It's good for any athletic sport.  You just vary your lifting program to suit a particular sport like boxing.

Answer 4

dont work out to get yolked like a beast, where its going to hinder your movements, but yes of course it is better to get stronger.

Answer 5

Joe Frazier, he who knocked out Ali, strongly recommends against weight training, and he was a big guy. If you insist on training with weights, he recommends not going any further than the common bench press. Tyson, another huge mound of meat didn't start on the weight training (aside from occasionally carrying weights when jogging as a youngster to help reduce height, and 30kg barbell shrugs to help with neck strength) until post prison. Prior to that he felt weight training was a hinderence and not as effective as natural exercises (dips, sit ups, bodyweight squats, push ups and ring work) and developing punching power through heavy bag work. Look at the mess his career was post jail once he got into weight training.

Answer 6

weightlifting is good for any type of athlete, but the specific requirements differ from sport to sport. With the exceptions of power lifting and body building, most competitive sports do not advise the use of large weights, but a significant number of repetitions (reps), and a cessation of weight training for some time prior to competing, to be replaced by exercises more suitable to development of suppleness, speed, agility etc. Former world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield was a "natural" light-heavyweight/cruiserweight who used a scientifically-devised weight-training program to grow into a heavyweight without losing speed, power or stamina, and look how great he became in the heavyweight division!

Answer 7

If you lift weights Lucho you MUST BALANCE that with FLEXIBILITY training, Otherwise your muscle movements and technique will be stagnated.

Evander Holyfield.for example always trained heavily with weights with Tim Halmark and even Mr Olympia Lee Haney

HOWEVER, he also trained with BROADWAY FLEXIBILITY COACHES that trained the cast of the high flying musical CATS for agility and dexterity!

So flexiblity and OF COURSE cardioovascular training are ESSENTIAL componants that MUST accompany any form of strength training for someone training in FIGHTING arts such as boxing!

I would recommend RESISTANCE training and ISOMETRIC exercises as a better alternative to weight lifting.

There will be less muscle stagnation to have to do stretching exercises through

Work hard on some of OR all of these

1. Push ups

2. Pull ups

3. Swimming

4.All Isometric resistance exercises

5. Hard External Martial arts such as Kung Fu that emphasize internal conditioning and external strength THROUGH Resistance Forms and techniques using Dynamic Tension!

Whatever you decide to do for strenght ALWAYS BALANCE it with flexibility and cardiovasular training!

I wish you great success in your training Lucho!