Weighted Bag Gloves?

[AdamGB]

I can see where you're coming from and weighted gloves do have some uses but they're fairly limited and if the guy can't keep a guard up effortlessly during normal training then they're not relevant to his fitness level!

(resistance bands are good but that's a whole entire different kettle of fish all together, they affect the muscles different during the range of motion you travel through compared to a weight at the end of a joint chain)

All weighted gloves will do is make him unable to produce as much activity on the bags.

His output alone will be enough to stimulate adaptations, there's no need to add weighted gloves on, he just needs to concentrate on keeping his hands up with normal gloves on. Muscular endurance doesn't work like that.

All weights on his gloves will do is make him have to generate more force to generate movement, that doesn't carry over into muscular endurance though. Possibly power but again, the bag is the resistance here, not the body.

heavy bag work is basically plyometric training and the whole way that develops power is by rapidly recruiting the muscle fibres involved. the theory method behind it whether it's squat jumps/clap press ups/what ever is that as soon as contact is made with the surface that you are contracting against you leave it.

When you punch your body is like a chain and your hands are the very last part of that chain, I can see the sense in adding weight to a squat jump to force you to give more output to develop power... not punching though... if you were going to add weight to a clap press up then you would wear a weighted vest, because your trunk is the load you are moving, you wouldn't tie weights to your wrist because you'd simply be sapping your force generation by nipping it in the bud.

So yeah, don't think weighted gloves offer an awful lot in terms of power development and like I've said before - he needs to adapt to keeping normal gloves up before progressing on to anything else... keeping his guard up during prolonged bag work is more than good enough.

Weighted gloves are just going to make it so he can't keep his guard up for as long, we're talking endurance here, not strength. The more time he keeps his muscles contracted in that position the longer he will be able to do it for with out fatiguing.

To use an extreme analogy: I'd get more physical adaptation from lifting 85% of my one rep max 4-5 times than I would from doing 1-2 reps of something heavier.

The benefits of using them are they you require more calories to generate movement because you're having to output more force, so you'll get Anaerobic/Aerobic conditioning benefits (though my theory is I'd rather use that energy on quality, but if you don't have long nothing wrong with squeezing the intensity up that way), but not muscular endurance.