Quote Originally Posted by luke
Whatever man.. Im just telling you its a fact. You don't bench press to build up your freaking calves. You do the excercise for a freaking reason. You chest doesn't punch. Your legs and your arms do. If you want to build your chest up, do CHEST EXCERCISES.  Bench, incline, flyes, decline, etc. If you want to build up your tri's do tri excerices. Dips, skull crushers, tricept extensions, kickbacks, etc. Don't kid yourself man. If your going to do a excercise DO IT RIGHT. Don't half as$ is because it doesn't hurt as bad. Anyone can do dips if your arms are wide. But it doesn't do anything for the muscle. The stronger your tris are, the harder you hit. Why do you think Tyson did 2000 dips a day.. to build his tris.Â

Bodybuilding and boxing are different.. and you lift different for each sport. The difference is the excercises you do, and the weight and repetitions you do. Not how you perform the excercise. Your comment was one of the most assinine comments I have seen on this board. I'm not some punk who talks out my @ss, I know my stuff. I live what I preach. When you can do 35 dips with a hundred pounds hanging from your legs come back and talk to me. Its always the girls do the curls in front the squat rack that say things like... "form isn't important", and "just do the excercise, dont worry about how you do it".  And its those same guys who curl and bench all day, and would get freaking crushed by a 200 pound squat. Build your legs up, build your freaking tris up.. and you will hit harder. I swear to it on my life. Big chests are for lifters.. I dont think they hinder boxing that much.. but it has no GREAT affect. Personal opinion only. Form makes the muscle stronger and stops you from hurting yourself. To get stronger you have to add weight, but add it appropriately. Â

Get away from the mirror, put the curl bar down.. slap a 45 around your waist.. and do some freaking dips like a man.
Boxing is not Bodybuilding. If you train like a Bodybuilder then your not doing your performance any favours.

No you don't do dips to "build the tri's", why would you want to do that?? You do dips because they are a bodyweight exercise, a calethenic, you do them for GPP. Like sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups... they are calethenics. That's why you do them. Throwing barbells around will not do anything for your Boxing, calethenics won't do much either but they are bodyweight exercises and great GPP - that's why boxers do them.

Go on you carry on training like a Bodybuilder, that's fine. But remember, it's not Boxing(duh!).

(Tyson did 500-800 dips a day for GPP, he did bodyweight exercises).

For your information, no I don't bench and curl and never have done, they are for sissies.

I squat 6 days a week and train olympic lifting right now. Before getting into olympic lifting, I never used weights in my life because I didn't need them - I was a BOXER. When I was Boxing - I did daily stretching, sprints, jogging, sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups and dips.. that's all I did aside from actually BOXING.