Hi;
Wow, a boxer from an actual national team!
I was just wondering if you could help me out by explaining some of your points in greater detail, as I think a clearer explanation could be really interesting.

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Well I'm on the national team and every coach/trainer who I have seen teaches fighters to rest your gloves on your chin and lift the elbows. Think of an elastic band how it goes out slowly and comes back quickly. Now if a fighter has elasticity hooks are going to land on his gloves and if his punches are short (6 inches) straight punches from the opponent won't get through. There's no need to turn the left shoulder or head movement or even foot movement for that. Therefore running won't help make your legs strong.
1. National Team! Cool! Which one?
2. If you rest your gloves on your chin and lift your elbows, wouldn't that leave most of your head unprotected? and all of your body? Isn't that kinda dangerous?
3. Maybe I'm not advanced enough to understand your technique... your description was too complicated for me... But how does that clarify that running doesn't make your legs strong?
Don't all military's internationally use running to enhance endurance in the legs?

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They don't care about supination and pronation movements I.e hold a bowl of soup in your hand that is supination and the reverse in pronation. All the docs care about is feeding fighters a cocktail of human growth hormone and testosterone and winny. The specialist asked me what the difference between a 9 km run vs a 10km run. Point being they don't believe in cardio.
4. How does supination and pronation relate to the cardiovascular system?
5. Human growth hormone; sorry for the rookie question; but wouldn't HGH be counterproductive in boxing; as enducing hypertrophy would see guys climbing weight without actual increases in force development?
6. Is synthetic testosterone use common in boxing?
7. Is Winstrol commonly used by fighters? I would've thought that this would have been very easily detected by any level of testing?
8. They don't believe in cardio? Wow, could you explain that to me in detail; I can't seem to grasp your thought process here.