"About 90% of boxers in this country in my opinion, lead unprofessional lifestyles."

Right you have just written a massive essay about how pro boxers should train/live so can I ask, how many professional bouts have you had or been involved with? How many bouts have you been in full stop? How much time have you actually spent in a boxing gym?

Pro's train ridiculously hard, if they do not they do not achieve anything, it is wise to keep things ticking over if you're not in training camp, from what I have been told from an s and c coach who wroks with pro boxers, i.e light training sessions that could even just involve stretches but believe me pro's train hard and if you feel their lifestyle is so unprofession, why don't you try and become a pro boxer.

If you want to train 100% all year round that is your choice and you may benefit from that but no a training camp should not be just to sharpen up you ****ing idiot, also do you do realise that boxers don't just work on conditioning while they're in a camp don't you? your comparison to messi is redundant as messi trains with far less intensity than elite boxers do, mainly because he competes far more regularly and then has a break of about 2 months at the end of a season messi is also the greatest player on the planet, a lot of "professional" footballers are on the **** every week and balloon up 2 stone during the summer (I have seen ones from round my end out on the drink a few days before a game). If he trained with the intensity boxers do he'd be fatigued during competition.

Also I train 5-6 days a week and 2 times a days for some of those days. Out of those 7-8 training sessions I have I would only want to train weights once, weights may not get you bigger but you are still conditioning your muscles for a slow push and short burst. If you spend too much time on heavy weights you will have **** stamina, because extra muscle takes up extra oxygen and muscles need to be trained for endurance and explosivness mostly so once a week is ok but plyometric training, which involves maximal muscle contration for less than 200ms, for ballistic strength exercises which involve the muscle only being tensed for a fraction of a second is how to increase power.

Boxers at the elite level deserve a break imo, a few sessions a week won't hurt but the main work is done in the camp. most of these guys are in a camp for 3 months, that's a quarter of a year incase you didn't know, and during that time they will have been training six hours a day with no drink or junk etc. so I think that is where most of the work is done. A complete break for 3-4 weeks is ok too, ricky hatton obviously went too far inbetween camps and he'll be the first to say he payed the price, during camp however he wouldn't have pop, crisps, sweets, takeaways, alohol or any crap food for 3 months and let's not forget he was competing 3x a year and he even had to stick to this regime if it ran through christmas. How many other professions require that? yet you think they're unprofessional?

Just another ******ed post from a no nothing esb poster like 99% of the rest on here.

 

absoulute bollecks. I guess ronnie coleman is the fastest man alive then and also bigger doesn't neccisarily mean stronger either but faster come on get a grip, it all depends on the individuals genetics and what type of conditioning that muscle has undergone. Bigger muscles put much more strain on the heart as well as they consume more oxygen, which massively reduces the body's cario vascular ability as well.

Let's not forget the heart is a muscle as well, and CV exercise is how you train it. also the heart probably the most important muscle in a boxing match

 

Every boxer that's ever lived will have at some point done something which hinders their progression. It's usually how they correct this (and how soon) which defines their careers.

 

Just high lighting that little part of your quote because what you actually said is: "About 90% of boxers in this country in my opinion, lead unprofessional lifestyle".

Now tell me how do you know boxers do not do a bit of training all year round, I think you'll find if you look hard enough that actually 90% of boxers do train even out of camp and like I said all you need to do out of camp is put the body through stretches once a week and don't go too crazy with the drink or diet. There are boxers who do not follow this strategy and provided they put the work in in camp they can make up for it.

Also I obviously do not agree with what you have said otherwise I would not have made the argument, what I am saying is that you know nothing about boxing and that in actual fact most boxers do a small bit of maintainance work outside of camp and the work they do in the camp is utter hell and is very professional.

Also with regards to Williams's coach, he got his boxer from an amateur all the way to a world title, when you do that you can comment. Williams will have overall been doing much more hours per day training than messi was so he probably would be spending as much time training skill overall and he had a style which was mainly based around his physical strengths anyway, I personally wouldn't follow that training method but different athletes respond to different methods.

You implied that training camps should just there for boxers to sharpen up and that shouldn't be the case, this is utter bollecks as training camps are not just there to sharpen up and you said they should already basically be at their best going into a camp which is boolecks, in reality they are there to train and fully prepare for a fight, and the process boxers go through is very professional but a little key board ***** like you wouldn't appreciate that.

With regards to the weight training as well, they may not get you bigger provided you only train once or twice a week, that is the maximum amount of time you should spend on them in boxing, weight training often does increase the size of muscles however and it does not increase the strength of the heart. also working with heavy weights tires your muscles out a lot, so if spend a lot of time on them you will be suffering from delayed onset muscle soreness while going into all your other training sessions, you will not be able to increase your endurance as much as you like and if you do put on size it will increase the strain on your heart. There are several reasons why too much weights training is bad in boxing and I think coaches know more about that than you.

Truth is in reality your just like the 90% of posters here who little about how boxers should train etc. but thinks googling it and reading an article on wiki makes you an expert on it.

 

What about not just talking about fitness camps etc

It seems a lot of fighters get fit to fight - but dont spend lots of time in the gym, not training at a high intensity, but actually getting better at boxing?

 

Ronnie Coleman is a genetic freak who used life-threatening ammounts of AAS. It's highly unlikely that a pro boxer will get that big

 

Some posters here need lessons in basic biomechanics.

 

There is a standard framework to the type of lieftstyle / training you should lead if you are a professional boxer / athlete.

If you do it properly you will be better than your rivals, if you take shortcuts you wont.

Im not saying you will become a champion, but you will have a much better chance of as your body will be in a good condition all the time, it then comes down to abiltiy /skills.

Make sure your fit enough and then hone the skills, no point in having one without the other (either way)

 

I don't think its a coincidence that our top 4 boxers in Britain (Haye, Froch, Khan & Burns) are all exceptionally clean livers (and have exceptionally clean livers).

They rarely drink, I believe, and seem to be the most 'professional' in terms of preparation, weight control and diet.

 

No you basically said that if this wasn't done out of camp that boxers are unprofessional, I did not agree with that. You may have quoted that guy, but you did so in agreement. They don't just train for 9 months a year, they live a lifestyle for 9 months a year they are very professional and every point you have made is utter shite.

Also atberry, get a grip, you made the stupidest connection ever by implying that bigger muscles = faster muscles, rubbish.

 

The bit bout boxers mainly only need muscle Indurance in legs! WTF! U have clearly never boxed b4 u clown u try holding u hands up for 12 x 3mins. Stop reading after!

Pick another sport to criticise. U know **** all bout this art!!!