Did Floyd take training seriously?

he has a very high metabolic rate, i know, i have one. i eat whatever i want or whatever is convenient and you can see my abs. although, i only eat when im hungry so i have no set hours or menu.

 

Nah you read too much into it,the question was about Floyd eating a burger lol.
Seriously get a grip man

 

Yep I’m the same,just don’t put fat on.

 

He was a notorious gym rat, yes he liked his fast food and would have it regularly but he put a ton of work in the gym to stay in shape. You never saw him balloon in weight like Hatton between fights he was basically always training even when he didn't have a fight coming up. Even when retired he was always in shape, the guy lives, eats, breaths boxing.

All the top guys were gym rats. Pac, RJJ, Hopkins, Mayweather etc. You can have all the talent in the world but if you don't have the commitment then you'll likely fall short of greatness. Look at Amir Khan one of the most naturally gifted fighters ever to come out of the UK but he was never a gym rat like Mayweather. When Hunter took over his training he said he was shocked that Khan didn't train at all between fights, he only trained when in camp for upcoming fights. Ward, Mayweather, Hopkins, RJJ these guys were never out of the gym it was a job for them, several hours a day, several days per week, 52 weeks per year for many years, not 12 weeks 2-3 times per year like Khan and you see the difference in terms of skills, it takes thousands of hours in the gym to get skills like Mayweather, doing boxing part time won't get you to greatness.

 

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Of course Floyd trained at an obsessive level, day and night, day in day out. All elite performers do. Michael Jackson did, Albert Einstein did, Carl Jung did and so did Floyd.

It is a misconception by the general public (who if anything achieve average success, or less) that there are some lucky gifted people who achieve top 0.001% rates of success but don't have to work for it.

 

Variation in peoples metabolic rates is very small from studies I've seen. You say it yourself you only eat when hungry, you just don't eat a lot, like everyone who says they have a high metabolic rate.

Every skinny person I know doesn't eat much, skips meals, doesn't snack much, usually very active people too. Even if they only eat junk food the fact is the volume of food is low, they think it's a lot, but it's not.

 

could be. i average 2 meals a day, sometimes 3 sometimes 1. but i will eat a whole large pizza in one sitting, or 2 bacon cheeseburgers with the sides. my digestive system has conditioned itself to where i dont feel bloat, its very elastic. the reason i think its genetic, is because throughout my life, i havent always had the luxury of deciding when and how much i eat, and i still stayed a lot slimmer than those in my same situation. im 52 now and should have at least some love handles, whether i ate little or not. although im active, i dont excercise. im not bony thin, i carry more muscle than i did as a paratrooper in my 20s. not saying my situation is common, maybe just on the extreme of that bell curve... like floyd might also be.

 

As long as you use IV fluids, all will be fine

 

I am sure he took his training seriously. No doubt about it. But I am also sure that there are thousands of other boxers who train as hard as Floyd but never get so far. So natural talent is probably the most important factor which made Floyd so special.

 

I'm the same, I'm naturally an under eater I weighed 117lbs when I was 23, could always eat a huge amount of food in one sitting even at my skinniest. 90% of my meals were junk food if I'm honest. There would be days that I could eat a frightening amount of food, even now I did over 6000 cals at a BBQ recently and I was being restrained lol. But I used to often skip breakfast, not snack at all and I was very active, physical job, long hours, go out most nights to clubs and dance for hours. While I had days were I could out eat people twice my size more often I under ate so was underweight.

If you tracked your calorie intake you'd probably be surprised how little you eat on most days, I know I was when I first tracked. Thought I was doing 3000 cals plus on most days because I was regularly eating kebabs, burgers, pizza etc, but in reality most days I wasn't even eating 2000 cals, while burning way more due to activity. Once I realised I was under eating I was able to up cals consistently gained a total of 39lbs at my heaviest. So it's possible for guys like us to gain weight it just means we have to more disciplined with eating more because we are inclined to under eat without even realising it.

 

It definitely happens.
In my family we all have it. I had to eat and eat to stay above 80kg's when I was younger, quantities that would make other people obese. Now at my current age it levelled out and I actually started to develop a belly overtime, and came close to 100kg, which is gone now and back to 90. (I'm 1.94m by the way)
My younger brother, older sister and even my mother (70 now) all still have it. Hardly gaining weight while eating a lot more as what's normal.

It's rare, but it happens.

 

You will get outliers no doubt but in general peoples metabolic rates only vary between about 5-13% if my memory serves me correctly from the study I read a while ago on this.

The average BMR for a man is 1662 cals for a man in the US so at 13% that's just an extra 216 cals that person burns doing nothing that the average person.

Most of the people I know are skinny, always struggled to gain weight. Most are under eaters, the ones that eat a lot like yourself tend to be very active, even if they don't exercise they are always on the go, doing things and wouldn't qualify as being sedentary because of how much they move day to day.

I suspect most people in your family are naturally active people, may not go to the gym or run or do any regimented form of exercise but in general just move around a lot. I have a friend like this, she doesn't exercise, eats regularly, easily more than the average for a woman but she's always been underweight, but she never stops, even on her days off when she's chilling she's doing errands, doing house work, pottering around the garden. The woman doesn't stop, me and her husband get exhausted just watching her go about her average day why we sit in the garden and drink beer lol.

 

that was my whole point, the high metabolic rate is just an engine always revving at 5000 rpm's, the body is burning that energy even when youre just sitting around. those calories keep burning so that energy is also there for whatever it is that moves you.

 

True, we're pretty active and have always been.

 

It's all about total calories. A burger from McDonalds will probably have the same number of calories as a big bowl of brown rice with chicken.

You can eat junk food daily and maintain or even lose weight but don't get big portions.

As long as calories in and calories out are in balance then you will maintain weight.