I too would like to hear what andre thinks on this one, it has always seemed to me just a bit too simple to assume that lifting weights could carry over to combat functional strength, perhaps im wrong. The added weight as a result from that type of training may be useful in some forms of combat but it also has its costs, i feel apart from that the benefits of an old fashioned weight lifting regime remain to be seen.

it seems to me that the human body just isnt that simple at all, the 'enviroments' that we create to put our bodys through during training just arent that simple, nor are the adaptions our bodys make to evolve to that enviroment. If it was all that simple i believe we just couldnt be here today.

Fighting is such a large combination of seperate skills, there could be countless amounts of seperate skills required during fighting who knows, i personally believe even science now just cant explain them all yet. to think that you can ignore this fact and hit the gym 2 times a week with such a primative regime and have the time youve spent doing that being one of the most functional things you could have done with that time to supplement your boxing training as a fighter then i think youve just got it all wrong. But then again thats just my opinion, upset people as it may.