Bodybuilding vs Boxing - Which is Harder?

[Phmg]

Anyone agree??

I think it is. Not hard to get punched in the face is it. And its mostly skipping and gentle sparring with partners!


(1russ100, what you think )

 

[bulldog]

Haha, different disciplines altogether, but yeah, having been an amateur boxer for years and now a bodybuilder, I agree - bbing is WAY harder!!

In boxing, you can get away with a so-so diet and lifestyle, in bbing you cant - you have to stay on track...

If actually quite difficult getting punched in the head repeatedly though... :P

 

[Phmg]

Haha, different disciplines altogether, but yeah, having been an amateur boxer for years and now a bodybuilder, I agree - bbing is WAY harder!!

In boxing, you can get away with a so-so diet and lifestyle, in bbing you cant - you have to stay on track...

If actually quite difficult getting punched in the head repeatedly though... :P

ahhh controvertial....

were you any good? what was your wins/losses?

 

[tom0311]

Impossible to answer without saying whether it's professional boxing/bbing! Boxing requires miles more skill in my opinion, I'd much rather get in the gym and lift heavy, stick to a strict diet and compete for a living, than step into a ring with someone who wants to beat me to the floor. That takes serious nuts or just a lack of brain cells lol.

 

[Smitch]

I don't know how bodybuilders do it to be honest, it's too much of a way of life.

Ojne of my mates is a pro fighter and granted what he does is pretty extreme and he trains ridiculous hours a week for it his diet isn't any where near as strict as the guys on here until the lead up to a fight.

 

[doylejlw]

Well wouldn't say harder training wise, both hard in different ways.

But would say you def need more discipline in BB ie diet, sleep.

 

[Incredible Bulk]

Hmmmm, my old house mate was dating a WBC title holding boxer and i used to see him daily.
Diet was guess work, a lot of old wives tales on how to drop weight and pretty much a normal life.
He trained 2-3 times a day, road work in the morning, skills/technique in the morning and some sparring in the evening.

horses for courses... our pursuit is a 24/7 thing with an eye on the diet more than in the gym, i'd say boxing is harder physically than bodybuilding but bodybuilding is harder mentally

 

[tom0311]

i'd say boxing is harder physically than bodybuilding but bodybuilding is harder mentally

Agreed, although I imagine pre-fight nerves would be pretty intense.

 

[hsmann87]

Used to box competitively but stopped as I got concussed 3 times in one season (through both boxing and rugby). I now follow a BBing lifestyle.

Dont think anyone can say one sport/activity is harder than any other...well at least if you have an aim to be the best of the best. If you take up an activity properly you smash it to the death, then smash it some more...to me thats bloody hard whether its BBing, boxing, golf or chess! And IMO if you enjoy doing something then its never hard/difficult to do...its fun, no matter how hard/difficult/obsessive/psychotic it may appear to average joe.

P.S. 1russ100 is ripped to FVCK these days!

 

[Smitch]

Used to box competitively but stopped as I got concussed 3 times in one season (through both boxing and rugby). I now follow a BBing lifestyle.

Dont think anyone can say one sport/activity is harder than any other...well at least if you have an aim to be the best of the best. If you take up an activity properly you smash it to the death, then smash it some more...to me thats bloody hard whether its BBing, boxing, golf or chess! And IMO if you enjoy doing something then its never hard/difficult to do...its fun, no matter how hard/difficult/obsessive/psychotic it may appear to average joe.

P.S. 1russ100 is ripped to FVCK these days!

Obviously not on the 'anything you can eat diet' any more then!

 

[Phmg]

Used to box competitively but stopped as I got concussed 3 times in one season (through both boxing and rugby). I now follow a BBing lifestyle.

Dont think anyone can say one sport/activity is harder than any other...well at least if you have an aim to be the best of the best. If you take up an activity properly you smash it to the death, then smash it some more...to me thats bloody hard whether its BBing, boxing, golf or chess! And IMO if you enjoy doing something then its never hard/difficult to do...its fun, no matter how hard/difficult/obsessive/psychotic it may appear to average joe.

P.S. 1russ100 is ripped to FVCK these days!

yeah, but he does weigh 75kg dont you russ

(he's reading).

 

[Guest]

who else recons powerhouse is lookin for a cop out already?
saying how tuff it is, so it dosent make it as bad when he jumps ship for the 3RD TIME!!

 

[Phmg]

who else recons powerhouse is lookin for a cop out already? saying how tuff it is, so it dosent make it as bad when he jumps ship for the 3RD TIME!!

lol, cop out of what, its only a transformation competition. Ive done enough already

(you fat cu.nt)

 

[Kaotik]

Depending on how seriously you take boxing, it's far harder. If serious you still have to watch diet, spar, do cardio and weight lift.

Bodybuilding is only following a diet and lifting weights a few hours a week. Possibly cardio too.

I actually quit boxing because I didn't have the time so just focused on bodybuilding.

 

[Phmg]

Depending on how seriously you take boxing, it's far harder. If serious you still have to watch diet, spar, do cardio and weight lift.

Bodybuilding is only following a diet and lifting weights a few hours a week. Possibly cardio too.

I actually quit boxing because I didn't have the time so just focused on bodybuilding.

depends how much training you do for bodybuilding surely?