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Old 05-21-2006, 11:12 AM
EricT EricT is offline
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Originally Posted by punchinmonke
Though it also says you should be training each major body part more than once a week. How can you get in this much volume every week without having to lower the intensity of your reps/sets to the point where you aren't even building for size anymore.
Volume is the total amount of work you do, right? Basically weight X reps X sets in a nutshell. If you increase the frequency per bodypart that doesn't mean you're necessarily doing more volume per week.

The short answer is that as you increase the frequency you lower the volume per workout....the volume will be spread out over the more than one workout per body part per week. As far as reducing the intensity that is far from the case. You're doing high volume now so that relates to a fairly LOW intensity. Keeping the volume per workout low and increasing the frequency will allow you to work at a higher relative intensity.

As far as working for size there is more than one way to accomplish that and keep in mind that progressive load is one of the biggest criteria.

Also, I wonder if boxing is just a hobby or something you're serious about? The reason I ask is because right now you're training more or less like a bodybuilder. There also may be better ways to maintain/inrease your aerobic endurance without sacrificing muscle. Somehing to keep in mind is that if you run 1 or 2 miles then all you are doing is maintaining a certain level of fitness but not increasing it past that set point. Since adding on the mileage until your running a marathon is only sound for marathoners then it would stand to reason that a more efficient method should be found to integrate all your training so that one part does not suffer for the other.

The reason I'm saying this is because you're probably putting way too much stock into how well running keeps you fit for boxing. This may come as a shock but boxing is mostly and anaerobic endeavor..unless you're boxing style consists of running slow continuous circles around the perimeter of the ring. The things you do for conditioning should be as similar as possible to the demands of your sport.
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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.

Last edited by EricT; 05-21-2006 at 11:37 AM.
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