Can Sparring make you stronger?

[Scrap]

That youngun is where the coach has to be inventive, my lot didnt start as champions. You can lead a horse to water but before you do just think how a wet Horse smells.

[Von Milash]

you might be stronger for a number of reasons as people have said, but it aint from sparring bigger guys. In that regard, you just feel stronger because they are stronger that the smaller guys you're working with now.


Spar with bigger guys to learn to deal with strength and power. Spar with smaller guys to learn to deal with speed. Because come the real thing, you'll encounter both types of opponents.

Rep me for this. Now that's some insight.

[iceman]

i have noticed that i get tasked with sparring everything from younger kids(13plus) to new heavyweights despite the fact i sit at lt heavy mostly...when i spar with the young kids i play tag, never really let loose with power, as i will hurt them provided i hit. as for the heavys, i could care less if they start crying cause they can take a light tag...and yes i have seen newbies cry. they get tired and yet their brain says keep going...ha they feel it would be better to get hit than raise a hand they get so tired but part of learning to pace yourself. when they hit hard i up the pressure but don't do so as much on the lighter weights. maybe you got used to beating on big guys and well the punch was still there when you went back to your weight class..

[ICB]

I think it does i mean i've come along way since i first stepped into boxing gym, i can react much better to taking a shot, my technique has sharpened up greatly and my confidence level has gone way up amongst other things. I also have the same sort of measurements as you Donny being 154 and just a tad under 6'2, i can normally bully a lot of my opponents on the inside but i have come accross a few really strong guys who were too strong on the outside and i was forced to stick and move.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Its the finest conditioning exercise there is end off. I had 7 champs in the gym and mixing them up under control was awesome they got everything. Had the feather spar the middle and play games like Cowboys and Indians.

Have to agree, nothing I've tried comes close.

[Chris Nagel]

This is something that I read that really sticks, "Sparring is rehearsed perfection under pressure".

[Scrap]

Fighters should by being in a gym improve. I remember a fighter, I told him twhen I lived in London that I was going away for 2 weeks and to run 8 miles a day till I got back. When I got back I got a phone call from Him asking whether I could pick him up in Manchester 130 miles away

[Scrap]

I think it was to much Sparring

[tyciol]

Usually strength isn't the main objective of sparring, but yeah it could improve doing it.

Although I wonder, maybe it's not as much that you built strength but that you got more comfortable using it? Against lighter opponents, nice people tend to hold back a bit, but when you fight bigger guys, when you notice your punches don't phase them you instinctively begin to hit harder and use more of your strength.

If you got in the habit of doing that and then went back to fighting lighter opponents maybe that's why?