I strongly believe that kick-boxers are profited from practicing with weights. I have a personal instructor and we perform exercises accordingly to a special program: a lot of repetitions and low weight. The objective is to strengthen and stress the muscles, but not to create volume, because this would lead to the loss of speed. Also, timing and the type of education are equally important points that need particular attention at the duration of preparation.
If for example, we have a fight in three months and want to increase the muscular power , we are focusing for roughly a month and a half in weights and then we continue with smaller weights and more accent in the speed and in the explosiveness. Roughly 20 days before the fight, we stop weights completely and we are focusing more in running.

I believe that the real power finds itself in internal energy, and combines itself with the right relaxation. Many times, when I have a contact with my opponent, I feel as if my energy is transferred to him. As when I hit F-16 Forrester while he was defending himself: I struck him in the hands but he fell . Take for example the edge of a whip, by itself it has no force of impact, but if you stretch it suitably and strike someone, he will really feel it!! When I am well on the ring, I feel the energy flooding, on the one hand I feel light as a feather and on the other hand, I feel that my fists have the force of an athlete of heavy weights.

The training program that I follow, is constituted by Kick-boxing, running and weights.It is very important for a fighter to consume the suitable food, not make abuses, sleep enough, and most of all be full positive energy.

It is not wrong to practise hard, there are many however that practise excessively. I train a lot but under close medical monitoring. For example I make regularly CPK examinations in order to check the levels of lactic acute in my body. I have seen many that practise madly and then they appear exhausted in the ring. This is owed to the fact that they practise excessively and stop hardly 2-3 days before the fight. If the levels of lactic acute are high, they need at least 7 days in order to be faced. The pause of training hardly two days before the fight is not enough if somebody has practising excessively.
Also if somebody is in the limits of permissible weight, he drinks small quantities of liquids the last days so that it does not exceed the limit. When it finishes the official weighing, immediately he is drinking a lot of liquids in order to recover the lost weight. If the official weighing is one day before the fight, no problem exists, the body can slowly recover the levels of liquids in the body. If however it is the same day with the fight, then a problem exists because the body cannot manage to recover the appropriate levels.