Weight lifting is very important. If how hard you hit is equal to your MASS times speed (very loose definition, I know, but good enough for this), increasing MASS is one of only 2 ways possible to increase you impact. How can you ignore this?
Speed is, of course, the best way of increasing impact, but if your speed remains the same and your mass increases, what happens? You start walking through walls!
finesse is fine, but it's nice to be able to just pick them up and slam 'em down when all else fails.
Case in point #2: If you are both evenly matched skill wise, your opponent is 160 lb, but you are 190 on the same frame, who wins? It won't be the pencil neck.
If you're a fighter, you hit the weights. If you fight alot, you don't have to ask why. |