First-hand account of Marciano's diet and workout regimen (1952)

Interesting.....sticky, but effective.

 

pure fiction that account! it is well known that marciano had only one meal a day, consisting of 5 Pounds of nails that he downed with 3 gallons of freshly squeezed horse blood.

 

Did he use the same horse each time?

 

I recall a show before one of Ray Mancini's fights showing him thro wing punches in a swimming pool. Supposedly threw 1,000 punches a day in the pool.

 

Marciano ate anvils and sh@t nails.

 

dont be absurd! of Course not!

 

Now I understand why he was such a miser. Those horse-squeezing expenses must have been crushing.

 

I agree to the physical extent IMO a fighter should train to fight I even as an amateur and a pro did no less than a hundred and as many as 1000 situps total and neck training, chewing gum, grip work, lunges and ran usually no more than 3 miles but I had a stair routine that we did when I wrestled....in fact I borrowed the same routine from my wrestling days which was an hour of running through the school halls up the stairs and so on everything except duckwalking. Training camps are as much about psychological tuning and timing, confidence and focus as it is about physical fitness the key is knowing when your fighter is peaked.

 

I heard it was unicorn blood ... and you don't see many of those around anymore, do you?

 

If one had to undergo the training and punishment that Rocky did , I'm not surprised he was slow with a buck.
It's just a terrible shame he never got to enjoy the rewards for his spartan like existence.

 

I don't think I would want to be on the wrong side of you!

 

A long time ago my friend I still work out religiously but my knees are paying for those sins today I think....I am also 240 lbs now where as a fighter and wrestler I grew to 171 and 175....underneath the added weight was once a decent athlete lol...fear and respect along with a desire to succeed

 

Did he even lift bro?

 

You know what?

Let's just accept all of this is true. This is an accurate representation of how Rocky and his contemporaries trained. We still have footage of them fighting, fighting 15 rounders, they clearly had much better stamina than all but a few modern fighters, and if they got it not from insane amounts of hard work, but lounging around, running a few miles, and eating blueberries, well then that just proves that modern "scientific" conditioning training is something between useless and counterproductive.

All these hard intervals and sweat, pushing hard, all that lactic acid, and if they just jogged a few miles, they'd have better stamina. Is that your point OP?