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h.dio
Question:
Minimal weight training gears: kickboxing
We are a kickboxing gym with little weight training gears.
All we have are:
A pair of 1kg, 3kg, 5kg dumbbells
A 5kg medicine ball
A pair of 20kg tires
I'd like to gradually purchase the fundamental gears to get a decent weight training at the gym.
I thought this is what we need:
-1 olympic bar
-At least 4 sets of 20kg plates
-a pair of 10kg dumbbells (russian kettle bells?)
(-maybe also a 1kg and 10kg medicine ball?)
We could do cleans, squats, dead lifts, curls. Maybe even bench press, but with no bench yet.
My question is, is this sufficient?
Should we keep aiming to lift higher, for clean jerks or half jerks, squats, bench, for kickboxing?
Or are we okay building a base sufficient to lift 100~150kg of weight?
Our fighters are between 60kg and 70kg.
Asked by h.dio - 4 answers - 25 weeks 5 days ago
scousemouse78
Hi. To start off your training with your fighters do some bodyweight exercises along with your sparring and running sessions. Skipping ropes are cheap and are an excellent source of training.
BUild up your free weights collection, Dumbbells may need to go up to say 30kg
If you buy an Olympic bar, get say 4 x 2.5kg, 4 x 5kg, 4 x 10kg, 4 x 15kg and 4 x 20kg plates.
Hopefully you will raise money by selling memberships and tournament wins :o)
All the best.
Submitted 25 weeks 5 days ago by scousemouse78MartinM
I see no need for 4 x 2.5kg plates with only one olympic bar...
However, I would agree it would be better to get some smaller plate sizes other than just 4 x 20kg.
The amount of weight you will need largely depends on the strength of your athletes. Your focus should be power development, not only strength.
Clean and Jerk is not necessarily a lift i would focus on for kickboxing...however the others you have mentioned are certainly good choices.
Submitted 25 weeks 4 days ago by MartinMh.dio
Minimum set A:
1 x Olympic bar
4 x 20kg plates
2 x 10kg dumbbell
Minimum set B:
1 x Olympic bar
2 x 10kg plates
6 x 20kg plates
2 x 10kg dumbbell
2 x 20kg dumbbell
2 x 30kg dumbbell
(one pair of kettle bell at... 10kg? 20kg?)
Sufficient?
Submitted 25 weeks 4 days ago by h.dioMartinM
The minimum set B is most certainly a good start. You could then add to this by getting the smaller 2.5 and 5kg plates.
Set A would not be worthwhile in my opinion.
Submitted 25 weeks 3 days ago by MartinM