Quote Originally Posted by Sharla
Why do you want to increase arm size hitmandonny? I just get the impression power is not a weak point for you and even if it was I have gathered from a lot of the recent posts that power mostly comes from other body parts.

How much time have you got until your nationals? Do you think now is the best time to be trialling a new weights routine if it might make it harder to make weight or risk making you slower?

There's some lean little African pro guys i know who seem to incorporate plyometrics into their training a lot. They just randomly insert jumps into their warm up etc. I still have to be careful of injury and can't copy what they do (so unfortunately haven't spied their routine) but I'd guess that type of thing is more like to help over the short term than weights?
I just feel great absolutley fantastic.
I'd been weighing 71 just perfect and then doing some sprints i went down to 68, I pack on muscle easiest on my arms so thats why I'm doing it. Just to come in at 71 on the nose


And like you said the movement for a punch doesn't come from the arm, it comes from the body.If I put on muscle on my body Il stiffen and the punches wont be as good. However if i throw some on my arms it doesn't affect them really

5 weeks until my nationals. A few glitches to work out in sparring, but I know I'm in condition and stronger than my 75kg and 81kg gymmates.

Yeah, we do a few jumps too! They really help with the explosive power and speed from the ground up.

Like I said, I just feel incredible. There's no real artr to thge style I've prepared. Kinda Juan Diaz like, I'm just exploding from the corner and keep applying pressure (although I've worked a lot on head movement,) I'm ready now!

Thanks for replies all!