When you train in boxing, you will realize how complicated survive only a few minutes on the square: breathing becomes frantic, the legs become heavy and forgiveness thoughts slowly of lucidity.

So then, as we learn from the tradition began long marathons, all rope sessions and also the lot gets wet in that mixture of tears and sweat.

That said, it is not difficult to understand though, that it is not enough to become experienced marathon runners to succeed in the ring and, although run up at the top of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum is for the true ascent to the Olympus of victory, we know that performance optimization is also due to the sudden ability to shift gears, to mount a rapid and effective stroke where the opponent is unable to resist.

It is here that the training for explosiveness, the ability to generate a muscle contraction in the shortest time possible, those famous lightning bolts which according to Mickey, Rocky Balboa was supposed to unleash against the champion Apollo.

But then how to improve explosiveness?
The explosive force is a direct descendant of maximal force, that is representable as exemplifying the utmost level, muscular production will therefore be important to start with the development of the latter and then perform a transformation in the stream in question. (see article).
In the case of the practitioner of the "noble art", in spite of appearances, we will have to concentrate so much on arms as on the legs, just because it is from the latter that develops the power of the first (see article Footwork).

It is thus important to favour multiarticular exercises, they work the muscles synergistically, as happens in the ring, let them isolation training bodybuilders.
Here are some exercises that can be useful for this purpose:
–Squat, clean & jerk, snatch, bench: for the development of real power (exerting an effort with overload as quickly as possible) between 50% and 80% load of the ceiling;
–Pliometrie, gaits, kettlebells and repeated: for resistance to stress.

That said remember that an exercise in itself, whatever its form, does not cause the development of anything in particular than you can get with others. the real outcome lies in the programming and in the method of use.

A parenthesis is dedicated to the use of weights to make the so-called "vacuum" that represents one of the musts of pugilistic training but which, in fact, the progress of training methodologies has slowly placed it in the closet, as it not only useless but also harmful.

Roberto

An example of Explosive Sample: