How has the training of elite boxers changed over time?

Needles, creams, and pills...

 

Ditto

Judging by your posting history on here, nobody on this board is going to accuse you of being the sharpest tool in the shed either, LOL..

 

You say fighters back then knew about nutrition - How come fighters back then would only chew on steak for flavour and not eat it because they thought it could damage them?

If you knew ANYTHING about sports science, you'd know that you could take Marciano and give him today's methods and he'd be MUCH better than back then.

Athletes in ALL sports are better now than back then.

 

I agree!

 

Horse****. My friend has Jake LaMotta's training diary from 1952 and LaMotta was meticulous about his diet, talking about carbohydrate and protein intake. He even recorded things like bowel movements. Proper nutrition and sports medicine didnt begin when color tv started.

 

Today's athlete is less durable. No doubt about it.

 

I never said it did...

There is a LOT more information out there today than there was yesteryear.

And one one boxer that works smart, another nine are clueless.

 

Manny Pac disagrees. As does Carl Froch. As does Floyd Mayweather.

 

There is always exceptions, past and present. But how are the above three training?

 

With modern methods.

Look at how Manny was perform with Ariza! He was that good that Floyd used him!

 

The late, great John Garfield who closely followed boxing from the 1940's to the 2010's claimed that fighters started using pads in the 70's. So that's a relatively new thing.

Otherwise you have more scientific nutrition and a higher emphasis on interval training. You'd expect a more scientific planning of the intensity of the training during different phases also, but I can't say for sure.

Far from everyone lifts weights, though. Floyd, of course, doesn't for one.

 

That's Bullsh*t Jake Lamotta was notorious for being overweight and having a hard time getting down in weight. I might believe he kept a diary for one fight about what he ate but extremely hard to believe he kept a diary consisting of Carbohydrate and protein intake because people didn't know wtf that was until years later!

 

If you think nobody knew what a carbohydrate was or a protein was until years later then your a ****ing idiot. Did you ever consider that LaMotta kept that journal BECAUSE he had such a hard time getting down to weight. After all he was fighting as a LHW in the amateurs. The fact that he could gain all that weight, get down to 160, be strong, and in great shaper illustrates that the guy knew how to train. Ricky Hatton got fatter between fights than LaMotta ever did do you think he trained like he lived in the 1950s or used modern methods?

 

Jake Lamotta amateurs? You don't know who Jake Lamotta was do you? If you did, you would know he never fought amateurs and was a street fighter and turned to pro boxing to feed his family.

Open a book or actually talk to someone who lived during that time, moron. If you asked any person who didn't have experience in science or some form of it what a carb or protein did they would just stare at you. Most of sports science was equal to bro science of today, they knew what things did, they just didn't know the science behind it. Doctors, chemists, and other scientists didn't focus on the research of sports science like today. They were busy finding cures for diseases that are no longer a threat to us now. Have you ever taken a college level biology or history class? It would do you a lot of good.

I'm not saying Jake Lamotta didn't know how to train because he obviously did like you said to get down to 160. Regardless of any of this, Jake Lamotta will always be my favorite boxer and one of the first boxers I actually enjoyed watching and researching when I first got into boxing.

 

Well, aren't you a dumbas s.

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