How can our heavyweights be so fat?

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  1. MIK1000

    MIK1000 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    How can an athlete train 2 to three times a day for 8 to 12 weeks for a fight, running, sparring, lifting weights, doing stomach exercises and eating good only to come in looking like big couch potatoes. I really don't understand it.
     
  2. Jorodz

    Jorodz watching Gatti Ward 1... Full Member

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    Well for starters, they don't do this
     
  3. Iron Mike

    Iron Mike Active Member Full Member

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    :rofl
     
  4. catasyou

    catasyou Lucian Bute Full Member

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    Because of McDonald's.
     
  5. MIK1000

    MIK1000 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Maybe not, but they will be training hard at least 5 days a week which you would think would transform you into looking somewhat like an athlete.
     
  6. Shattered Glass

    Shattered Glass Well-Known Member Full Member

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    They probably don't train enough/and or/ eat far too much.

    Disgraceful really. They are robbing themselves of their true potential.
     
  7. Jorodz

    Jorodz watching Gatti Ward 1... Full Member

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    Heavies one are bigger now than the old days but also seem to take advantage of no weight limit. Frazier for instance weighed around 212. He could have work hard for 5 days a week and then weighed in at 228 and not been the same. Heavy's need to work their ASSES off, same as everyone else, to get to their ideal weight, not just what they feel like showing up at.
     
  8. Serenata

    Serenata Fit und geimpft Full Member

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    Watch "supersize me" and ask that question again :D
     
  9. Arriba

    Arriba Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I used to wonder the same thing.

    Then they opened up a chinese buffet across from my house. I have to imagine there's one across the street from Gabe Brown's house. Hell Gabe Brown might've had one built in his kitchen.
     
  10. H .

    H . Boxing Junkie banned

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    this is why they aren't in other sports instead. these guy didn't make it, and they're angry
     
  11. Akxtinguish

    Akxtinguish Belt holder Full Member

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    Because they're allowed to be.

    Arreola, for example, is probably going to keep turning up fat until he gets it handed to him, after which he might consider getting into shape.
     
  12. J.R.

    J.R. No Mames Guey Full Member

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    These lazy *******s aren't training ever day and you can cut maybe half those things mentioned off the list because it's clear they're not doing all of that.
     
  13. Jennifer Love Hewitt

    Jennifer Love Hewitt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    If you don't watch what you eat, you can work out all you like and you'll still be fat. Then there is the lay offs. fighters don't workout unless they have a fight coming up, they balloon up in weight in between training camps.
    As for the training, judging by the amount of skill on display I'd say that the average heavyweight does not train all that hard.
     
  14. Irish Steel

    Irish Steel Active Member Full Member

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    Thats not true. I eat like a pig, but train hard and almost have a six pack.
     
  15. Jennifer Love Hewitt

    Jennifer Love Hewitt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    First, I hate you and people like you. :hey
    Yes, some people are fortunate enough to have the metabolism to eat what they want and still stay slim. I wish I was one of those.:oops: