Training Methods of the Old-time Boxers

[UrbanSavage**]

I'll accept your apology

Well, that's a relief.

 

[Searcher]

This thread made me want to join boxing again. Then it got derailed...

 

[xilliun]

If a lat pull down machine was chest height, you couldn't do lat pull downs with it, making it's name a misnomer/wrong. Unless, of course, you decreased chest height, perhaps by sitting on the floor or something.

or you're 8 foot tall.

our gym has a weights section in the same building, i was in there with some of the other guys once before and someone who'd came back for a week after touring europe (fighting) got in the cable cross over and started throwing punches with the resistance. no idea how beneficial it is.

 

[zx]

This would be better if it was posted in boxing or standup subforum, imo. Interesting subject tho.

 

[Searcher]

You can go ahead an eat some dry toast for a month and report back your results.

 

[SMillard]

It looks like the old timers trained more muscle endurance and compound exercises than the modern boxers. Also for a time bodybuilding style lifting gained some popularity in sports in general. I think as people become more educated in the eastern european training models we are going to see fighters not as bloated looking.