Long distance running/roadwork in boxing training?

no

 

a week?

 

Much as you hate to give the old time fighters credit for anything, I think that stamina is the one area where even you would have to give them the edge.

Even where the punch output is lower, they still have to more round the ring for 40 rounds, graple for 40 rounds, and maintain the lower pucn output for 40 rounds.

Fighting 40 rounds wouldn't be twice as hard as fighting 20 rounds, it would be more like five times as hard!

 

As I understand it, running intervals is the main form of roadwork fighters do today. My trainer told me that trraditional running has its use too, since it increases the lung capacity which in turn makes you recover from intense training faster. His recipe was long distance running in the pre-season (for amateurs) and then do intervals for the rest of the season.

I suppose you can get pretty much the same result from just swimming, though. And I could see why you'd like to. I certainly feel 10 km in my knees and I'm just 150 lbs.

 

I doubt any fighter, including Marciano, ran anywhere near 25 miles a day. If they did, I imagine their knee joints would be ground down to dust over time. I have read where Marciano used to walk quite a bit in his spare time, in some cases, many miles. He felt he built up his legs and got some of his endurance this way.

 

When you hear about a fighter running N miles per day, it dosn't mean they did that every day.

It just means that they did it on the day that the press were invited to the training camp.

Even so, the road work that some of these early fighters did was incredible.

I have been puting in 90-110 miles a week in the early months of this year, without any significant injury, and I think that some of the early fighters matched that.

 

Congrats. Those are big numbers.

However, do you think you would really have the energy and focus to train on boxing after doing such miles? Think of it this way, if you did the equivalent sparring, pad work, ring work, bag work, whatnot to your 100 miles a week, would you still have the energy and proper to run 100 miles a week as primary training for 10,000 or marathon competition?

 

lol i love fighting guys that dont like to run

 

Let's put it this way, James Toney wouldn't be half the fighter if he ran 100 miles a week.

 

To be fair to me, I held down a job around that traing regime.

That should be taken into account.

Perhaps the Peter Mahers realy did this!!!

 

Depends on the boxer, Willard isn't a particularly fit man, 40 round fought at a very slow pace of waiting each other out does not require more stamina than 12 rounds fought at a hard pace.

Just like you may run ultra marathons, but you are not fitter than Bekele

Stamina in boxing can be offset by strength anyway especially in long fights, if you're strong you can outlast a fitter man, by pushing him around and punching him as he tires or takes a breather

 

Get in the ring with James Toney then