Anybody have any info on the training routines of the Russian Amatuer boxing team , past or present ...
pretty much regular enough stuff, i had a trainer whop had trained with korobov and the stuff he used to do with us was not that different to what im used to, he did like med ball throwing a lot though
Just so happens we are blessed with a russian coach at our gym. He had 147 am fights and repped the USSR a few times i think. He then went on tocoach some top amateurs in his country and turned up at our gym last year. His english was poor but hes understandable to us now. The routine he puts us through is nearly always the same, and he stresses that all the good amateur boxing countries do a routine fairly similar to this. (although it would depend on which stage of training they are in etc) Warm up: Various excercises done while running in a circle, lasts about 5 minutes. a round of "push push" which is where you stay in your stance and push the other guy, then repeat, then a round of foot sparring (stepping on the other guys feet) then a couple of rounds of shadowboxing with dumbbells then 12-15 rounds of sparring drills, starts of with a round or two of regular sparring, then many rounds of head movement and countering drills (often reasonably complicated), close up sparring, modified sparring (like not being able to use the right hand etc) then several rounds of pads and bags.....some of the rounds on the bag are 4 or 5 minutes long and on the pads he completely ignores the rounds and just goes through, making you perfect all your technique. Then medicine ball or explosive weight exercises at the end. You get pretty ****ed by the end.....it's a tough routine and not enjoyable at all, but it does help, my last 2 fights i've used much better head movement and i know so many counters now its not funny.....one thing i dont think is so good is the long ass rounds which sometimes spawn bad habits as you tire, and my fights are 3x2 min (50kg junior) but yeah he's a quality trainer and a cool guy too, i thought russians were all stoic and mean and he can be like that, but he jokes around and is funny too....
That sounds as a pretty typical trainingroutine, at least for those gyms I visited. They probably are very impressed by the russian way. I think some of it are good but I put in some other stuff that I think is better. The predator
That routine is pretty much the standard way of training in Russian gyms. Loads of conditional sparring working on specific aspects of the game methodically. Gyms I went to in other countries seemed to lack this - there was a jump from pad/bagwork to proper sparring and no chance to polish off skills in a dynamic environment.