Long distance running/roadwork in boxing training?

If I'm not mistaken about 5-6 miles a day.

N.Richardson said that as a light heavyweight Hop runs 3 miles a day.

 

OK, that's a good weight for a runner. Did you know every extra pound you carry adds 5seconds to your mile time, so theoretically add 80lbs to your bodyweight, that's 400seconds (6mins40) extra per mile

Did you also know running approximately puts 3 times the force of your bodyweight on each leg, so for you that would 147x3=441lbs but is 660lbs at 220lbs

I also run at a reasonable level, having gone sub 4:50 for the mile at my best. Personally if I'm constantly over 200lbs with a lower bodyfat and most likely a better running pedigree than Willard I pick up running injuries. Currently recovering from a partially torn Achilles tendon from very steep hill runs and I'm not sure it'll recover completely.

Simply put I don't buy the running they profess to do at that bodyweight and even if they did it, it wouldn't be the best training for boxing in my view

3 miles at max pace = VO2 maximisation, if you do more or less you're not optimising training for stamina

 

Richardson even said that he thinks that Hopkins runs too much.

Toney would agree with him.

 

I should have qualified that, when I said "up to" 5 miles, I meant total for the day. I usually swam a mile first thing in the am, breakfast, off to school ( I was 17), gym workouts and/or sparring after school, then 2-4 miles in the pool, maybe non-stop, maybe in one mile increments.
The only time I did regularly did 5 miles non-stop was on weekends at the lake, where Lucky got his workout rowing along with us.
Although 5 miles in the pool was really nothing after you got used to it, laps were just boring as hell...

 

At my age, I've given up the sprints. I don't really have much need for what they produce, but I still swim at least 4 days a week, even though it's rarely more than a mile.
Doc says my cardio is as good as any patient he has and I might live to 100 if I would give up the pot and the bourbon. I usually ask him what's the point of living that long if you're gona deny yourself everything you like.

 

This is a boring alternative, but isn't the treadmill much easier on the joints? I have joint & foot issues at times from running and during my basketball days, and the treadmill never gave me the sort of problems or pain a harder surface did.

 

Try running on grass instead. This is what i do and i have no knee joint problems what so ever.

 

He ran about 15 miles a day in the lead up to a fight like i said previously. 15x7=105. I don't find it particularly hard to believe for that a few weeks a year one of the fittest boxers ever, a known fitness freak, ran 100+ miles in a week.

 

Just what i've read and heard mate, no way to know for sure but like i said he only did this in the final few weeks for an upcoming fight and given his insane stamina it isn't exactly hard to believe.

 

except for all that unpleasant cardio work, i think you and i would get along just fine :rasta

 

You don't do that for 'the final few weeks' you taper off and train light the week before the fight. 15miles a day would give him no energy to do other training, hence it didn't happen

 

There's a big difference between final few weeks and the final week. In any case Rocky was one of the fittest boxers ever in a period where people trained and were expected to go 15 rounds Rocky stood above them all stamina wise...is it really that hard to believe?