Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Boxing Paperback – April 1, 2006

Reads easily and very informed a must for those that want to add necessary weight training to the Noble art

This book is so full of information. The workouts at the end are very helpful, and it is very easy to understand.

I like this book because it allows you to lift without gaining unnecessary muscle. A good read with lots of useful and helpful information and workouts.

Alot of people are raving about this book but i just dont see it. I didnt really find it that informative. It has some good basic information but is a little outdated and focuses on to many bodybuilder type exercises. A better book is Mark Hatmaker's book called "Boxers book of Conditioning and Drilling" wich is more in depth and informative. Hatmakers book covers weight training and more functional conditioning! This book is more a less an introduction to strength training for boxers in my opinion.

I had limited expectations for this book, and it still managed to disappoint. From just a strength training perspective, the information in this book is of dubious quality.The author recommends mostly isolation exercises which would have little benefit for a boxer, or other combat athlete. It's probably a good thing that he mostly relies on isolation exercises, as his advice on lifting can be downright dangerous at times, like when he recommends exhaling on the eccentric portion of a lift. Do that on a squat and see how it works out. When he does recommend a compound movement, the two pictures that he has per exercise show him doing the exercise incorrectly (deadlifts from a narrow legged squat start position?!?).His programming for the prescribed routines seems awfully high on volume, and he doesn't suggest %1RM, which is kind if important. Furthermore, it is difficult to see how anything in the book is specifically suited to building strength in boxers, as opposed to general athletes. In fact, it's hard to see how the advice in the book would be of use to any but the most novice of lifters.If you want to learn how to strength train with barbells to get strong, then read Rippetoe and Wendler. Period. If you want to get strong for boxing, look elsewhere, I will be.

This is a classic scam book by unscrupulous Amazon.com "publishers." This book has NOTHING to do with boxing. It gives very generic overall weight training information. Its filled with charts, diagrams, and other filler information that speaks nothing to the specifics of boxing. What it does provide is some fairly generic but adequate weight lifting instruction. Quite frankly, there are 100 better weight training books out there, so it fails on the front to.Bottom line: This is not really a boxing-specific weight lifting book. Its a mediocre weight training instruction manual and in my opinion, there are many others including those by Riptoe or McRobert, which are both in a whole other league from this author. I finally did a search via Kindle for the word "boxing" because I was so exapserated at the lack of boxing info, and found that there were 9 results for the whole book! And all of the results were in the introductory section, which, not co-incidentally, is the section available for "LOOK INSIDE." Its purposefully deceiving in my opinion.I ended up returning for a full refund within the first day.

It is very informative and gets you motived. I'm feeling great from the workout plans and adjusting my on workout . Hope to be able to show my results by Dec.

its a good book been a great help in creating a regular workout. but there are quite a few typos and just in general bad editing.