Does weight lifting give you strength on the expense of speed and flexibility?

Question

am 15 years old and i train shotokak karate (black belt) i want to hit the weight room to hopefuly get as best as i could in sparring and so that one day i participate in full contact.

Now my question is does weight lifting give you strength on the expense of speed and flexibility? Because I'm going to start training gymnastics and am afraid that weight lifting will give me muscle mass that will prevent me from being flexible and fast.

thanks

Answer 1

do thorough stretching and you won't lose the speed.

Answer 2

As long as you don't lift weight exclusively and you keep your muscles stretched out, you shouldn't lose flexibility or speed. There are exercises that are designed for gaining strength while still maintaining speed and flexibility. Ask around about strength training, you might not have to hit the weights much at all.

Answer 3

Boxers still to this day are discouraged from lifting weights. The extra weight doesn't make up for the strength. Of course if you are like Evander Holyfield and fighting in the heavyweight divison it doesn't matter.

If you look at the some of the hardest punchers in boxing Tommy Hearns and Felix Trinidad these guys do not lift weights at all. Punching power is explosiveness weights don't help too much.

Everything I said above is from a boxing perspective.

In any sport with wrestling weights help.

Answer 4

Since your goal is to compete in karate tournaments, you should focus on building up your speed combined with the following:
- Fine tuning your basic attacking/counter attacking techniques by repeatitive training.
- Improving your sparring endurance, so that you can set a fast pace that your opponent cannot match
- Keep working on your flexibility; this will ensure that you can hit any part of your opponent's body.

Note that I'm assuming that there will be no grappling in the tournaments that you seek.

Answer 5

okay man, in general, everything has a limit right?
however at the same thing, everything will keep up as long as u do
as much weight lifting u do, u make your body flexible along with it, train on both things, but in the end u also dont wanna do the weight lifthing, u would want to only get to a certain size or weight depending on your height and then stop weight lifting, cuz wit the correct martial art excersize and conditionin, u wont need weights to increase strength
i dunno much about the speed part, i would just say i dont wanna overweight myself to where i become slow, hence why little guys are usually faster than big guys

Answer 6

What makes the old wives' tale a self fulfilling prophesy is that many times someone will pick one or the other. So long as you add speed and flexibility training to your strength training you should be good.

Answer 7

in general this is a myth.

this is not only common among old CMA teachers, but also among boxing coaches- as someone mentioned, that is also why they made such a big deal that holyfield was weight lifting while training.

Now of course you might want to focus on a weight program that focuses more on the muscles that are more important in fighting, but that is if that is your purpose in weight training.

some teachers say it "affects your fluidity as it builds your natural tendancy to use stregth vs. stregth" however if you are doing both, once you learn how to "not try to muscle things", you shouldn't lose it.

obviously increasing weight and weight training to such a degree may cos you speed- but we are talking about the kind of weight gain that essentially re-shapes your body (roy jones jr. jumping to light heavyweight for example). But the added stregth in that kind of situation would be worth a minimal loss in speed, if any.

Answer 8

Ask Evander Holyfield... In the 90's when everyone in boxing was still shunning using wieghts in their training, Holyfield hired Lee Haney a former Mr. Olympia to help him train. Holyfield used low reps at a high wieght to pack on muscle and to build pure power... And he did this without sacrificing speed or flexibility. The secret is not sacrificing your speed and flexibilty training just to lift. In Holyfield's case he still did alot of stretching and shadow boxing. Good luck!!

Answer 9

No...thats just an old wives tale......same as lifting weights stunts your growth
You do however have to keep up with the stretching....preferably after working out with weights as it will be damaging to your working out if you do it before/during
if you want to hit your fast twitch muscles then work on the positive portion of the exercise in a fast(controlled) manner and negative portion in a slow controlled manner

Answer 10

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Answer 11

if you are looking to build up muscle mass then yes u will loose flexibility and speed. bottom line.
if u wanna gain strength and maintain speed the best thing to do it weight lifting on less weight with more reps and sets. what sort of muscle catagory would your most like to build cos the best would be to do squats, sit ups and push ups.