Joe Louis' training techniques(?)

I am just saying, that he trained harder for Braddock and Schmaling II.

 

Minus the Sonja Henje part I think I did more today and im a fat old fart.

 

Yes, 2hrs roadwork, 18 rds of bags/sparring... kid's stuff.

 

In training camp before a fight I'd expect more, though.

 

I have Spaldings book on boxing and Physical culture from the early 40's and the techniques shown and described in great detail in that book are the same if not more insightful than that of today.
It also mentions in the book how ''every blow and guard used today (40's) was mastered by old timers''.
Old timers presumably meaning a minimum of 20 or more years earlier.

 

Pompton.

 

I remember reading that during heavy training when he was young he would eat a pint of peach ice cream every night to maintain his weight. Today, he would be drinking protein shakes.

 

McGrain, if you aren’t still too pissed, would you mind posting what you found? Haha.

 

Probably so, but I’d say the results show that Louis’ ways must have been better.

Everyone is always looking for an edge, and whatever today’s cutting-edge training or fighting technique is … give it enough years and they’ll be doing whatever’s new in their time and look back at what guys are doing today as wrong.

Sugar Ray Robinson ate steak for a prefight meal and drank the blood drained from the meat. He ran in Army boots. And he was better than any of today’s fighters who have the ‘benefit’ of all the ‘sports science.’

Maybe they knew more about what they were doing than today’s ‘sweet scientists.’

 

Modern sports science < Being a tough SOB and it's not close

There is an interview with legendary wrestler/coach Dan Gable where he essentially says the only changes he would make based modern sports science if he could go back in time is giving his wrestlers a bit more recovery time and possibly cutting down the repetitions of some exercises like only climbing a rope 12 times instead of 20 or something to that effect

 

I’ve maintained that, until “modern” training produces a boxer who’s truly exceptional - higher punch rate, higher KO percentage, doesn’t gas after 12 hard rounds - show me someone better than the traditionalists (Hagler, et al) and I’ll accept it as an improvement.

The one caveat: modern training includes rehab and recovery from injuries better than the old days, and may prolong the healthy careers of fighters.