why is weightlifting bad for boxers?

Answer 1

Only is bad when you train wrong. Boxers should do light weights more reps.

Answer 2

Do you mean the sport of Weightlifting or just exercising with barbells? Neither is necessarily bad for boxers. I've done both and boxed. They didn't hurt me. There are myths about becoming musclebound, but they are myths. Lifting barbells for high repetitions quickly is helpful. Too much bulk can be bad for making weight classes. You should find your fighting weight and remain very close to it at all times. Train for strength, not size. Weightlifters do that, while bodybuilders train to become massively muscular. Many boxers gained too much weight between bouts and were beaten by men they should've beaten. Jack Johnson was rated by some experts as the best or 2nd best heavyweight champ of the 20th Century. He weighed 195 lbs. in his prime. When he lost to giant Jess Willard, he weighed 222 lbs. and looked as fat as a hibernating bear. The bout was held in Havana, Cuba with 100+ degree weather, so that enhanced the problem of being 27 lbs. overweight...and becoming old. Too much size, whether fat or muscle, can be a handicap, but strength from weightlifting is helpful. It gives one more power.

Answer 3

Weightlifting is not bad for boxers, as a matter of fact it is advise to boxers going up in weight but as the saying goes, "Too much is Bad" the same goes for Athletes (except for Weightlifters).

Too Much Muscles would slow you down, thats why for boxers enough muscles and enough stamina will produce a good combination of power and speed.

Answer 4

Weightlifting as done by the body builders only creates bulk and will slow down the quickness of the punches you throw. There is specific weight training for the purpose of gaining upper body strength.

Answer 5

Because there is such a condition called being muscle bound. Looks really cool; but in rreality the muscles are so big that it resticts the movements of the said limb-- in this case the arms.

Answer 6

You need to be more agile in boxing and you can't concentrate on making your muscules be big and as bulky. If you get your muscles to big you're just not able to move around that much and would have the other person running all around you punching you.

Answer 7

Going for massive size you might lose a little flexabilty and speed. But just general strength training is a totally different story. You help with your endurance, power, etc.

Answer 8

I would think that it would make them "Muscle Bound," and not very flexible. Boxers have to be flexible and very quick, which are somethings that one can lose when doing weight training, if one is not careful.

Answer 9

Dyce ~ Mike Tyson lifted weights whilst he grow to be youthful at detention. whilst he began education for boxing, he did not raise as plenty, and concentrated on greater boxing issues, which incorporate sparring, mitt artwork, and heavy bag artwork. Lifting weights could make you sluggish, yet this is that in case you raise heavy weights. in case you easily would desire to enhance weights, then raise lighter weights, yet do greater reps. It builds greater capability interior the arm, and you maintain your velocity. i assume Mike Tyson grow to be purely speedy together with his form, via confusing working.

Answer 10

I never heard of anything quite like that. It is not even an urban legend.