Weight lifting in training?

[Youngblood]

I am not sure I understand the question exactly. Are you referring to doing weights, period, or doing them when you are at the gym for boxing?

I think you will find most of us are either doing weights, and or body weights along with our cardio. I don't believe they slow you down, but in fact can help increase strength and compliment speed, and especially when done properly. The secret I think, is in the doing it properly. If one is doing only low rep high weight to fail constantly, then you will end up building mass. And mass will slow you down. So higher rep. with lower weight is how I do it. But I do do some lower rep also. And I mix in a lot of body weight exercises (there's a great thread in here with a lot of body weight stuff...i'll link it after I hit post when I can find it.)

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...xcercises.html

But if you mean when at the boxing gym itself, then personally I wouldn't. I don't generally do much of any workout related stuff when there, so I can maximize my time working on technique and sparring.

I also want to be strong on those days and make sure my body is functioning as good as possible. So maybe in the morning I might do a cardio workout, and maybe a light body weight exercise routine...but moreover...I save the hard workouts on gaining strength and endurance, for days when off from the actual boxing gym.