Thread: BY DROPPING WEIGHT WILL I LOOSE POWER?

Originally Posted by Fantana

LIL_IRON_MIKE


By dropping in weight will you loose power? This question has many variables which will need to be discussed, assesed and accounted for. DAA as I teach in my classes.


First of all, weight means a lot of things. It means water, fat, muscle, etc, there is only 1 thing you want to be looking at loosing (burning off) and that is FAT. You want to keep as much muscle as possible, while burning off your fat.

So you need to get your body fat accounted for. Now, if you have a big belly, and cannot see the bicep muscle line, your going probably to be over 25%, so your clinically obese.

Anyway, get it measured.

If you just drop without monitoring your body fat, you will end up loosing a lot of muscle and retaining fat and loosing power.

Cant be bothered writing all this out, PM me for more

So when it comes to weight loss there are a lot of factors to consider but how do they all come together? I just have a few questions that have been bothering me.

(1) We know that power comes from the muscle in a boxer's body but how would water and fats affect the power, speed and overall performance.

(2) In addition to muscles, water and fats, it was mentioned that the bone structure as well is a factor, why?

(3) In the de la hoya vs pacquiao match, de la hoya was considered dehydrated. When a boxer is unable to make weight, is draining water from the body a last resort? How big of a factor is water to our weight.

Thank you!!!

Originally Posted by anotsu kagehisa

Originally Posted by Fantana

LIL_IRON_MIKE


By dropping in weight will you loose power? This question has many variables which will need to be discussed, assesed and accounted for. DAA as I teach in my classes.


First of all, weight means a lot of things. It means water, fat, muscle, etc, there is only 1 thing you want to be looking at loosing (burning off) and that is FAT. You want to keep as much muscle as possible, while burning off your fat.

So you need to get your body fat accounted for. Now, if you have a big belly, and cannot see the bicep muscle line, your going probably to be over 25%, so your clinically obese.

Anyway, get it measured.

If you just drop without monitoring your body fat, you will end up loosing a lot of muscle and retaining fat and loosing power.

Cant be bothered writing all this out, PM me for more

So when it comes to weight loss there are a lot of factors to consider but how do they all come together? I just have a few questions that have been bothering me.

(1) We know that power comes from the muscle in a boxer's body but how would water and fats affect the power, speed and overall performance.

(2) In addition to muscles, water and fats, it was mentioned that the bone structure as well is a factor, why?

(3) In the de la hoya vs pacquiao match, de la hoya was considered dehydrated. When a boxer is unable to make weight, is draining water from the body a last resort? How big of a factor is water to our weight.

Thank you!!!

1) Water is needed for the circulation of nutrients to and removal of waste products from the muscles, if you are dehydrated your muscles will not function correctly. Fat plays a role in energy production which could affect the muscles but it's more likely fantana is talking about the ability of the muscles to move the body and how this would be hindered by having dead weight (an abundance of fat) on you. If you come down in weight and lose muscle but regain fat (they both weigh something) you will not be as effective.

2) your muscles are only part of it... they are manipulating your skeleton through ranges of motion, the length of your legs, arms, shoulder width etc all effect the power that can be generated during a punch. Look At Tommy Hearns.

3) like I said it's very important. ODLH was dehydrated because a pro fighter will get down to a weight close to what they're fighting, dehydrate for the weigh in and then rehydrate afterwards before the fight. Oscar failed to rehydrate because he had to dehyrate way to much to hit the weight, making him so lethargic.

You can't be constantly dehydrated, pros do it because they have 24 hours to get the fluids back in.