How important is roadwork?

I think it is important, long distance keeps your weight down and if you run hard enough will test out your mental strength. The shorter distances like 3km or 4km can be run hard which also test your mental strength and raises your heart rate and condition your legs.
But i find other exercises i do in the gym are just as good.
I dont always have time to run so i try to make up for it n the gym.

How many times a week do you think is enough roadwork??

 

i think its vital to your training and i wish i'd done more.
your stamina depends on it !

 

Not important at all unless you're fighting a twelve round fight, i try to minimise my running or i lose my explosiveness and stamina for the pace i move around at normally.

 

Running: not very, can be replaced with other things.
Road work: a lot more.

 

What do you consider road work? Do you mean sprints? Road work/running is the same thing to me, whichever way you do it. Personally I love running on the road but I tend to get carried away and run too long at a slower pace as I enjoy it, rather than short sprints which I think I should do more. But I get injuries related to it so can't do it as often as I'd like at the moment so I replace it with cycling.

 

To me running is just jogging a few miles.

Road work is for example: run forward a few hundred yards, then sideways and backwards. Throw punches on the move, stop for a quick shadowbox perhaps. A short sprint between two telephone poles on the route, or after a cyclist for example. Then backwards and sideways again, etc. etc. Be creative.

Road work is more moving instead of running, and geared towards boxing.

 

OK cool, well I don't really do much roadwork as you know it, although I'll spring a bit to get my heart rate up during my runs, or i might slow down along the beach and shadow box a bit towards the end.

 

I wish I was near a beach so I could run barefoot again.

 

Roadwork is any type of running. It doesnt always have to be at 100%, you have some hard days and some days that arnt as hard when you run. I never shadow box when i do roadwork, i strictly only run when i do roadwork, sometimes i varie the speeds, sometimes i jog, sometimes i sprint. The only difference is some people slack of when they do roadwork and others push themselfs. Thats the difference in roadwork.