[CLIPS] Marciano's big training camp steak dinners

Tyson when he had his head screwed on, only took steak, pasta, and fruit juice, during training.

The broad principles of the training diet have never changed much.

 

Mayweather eat McDonalds during training camps , but he also claimed to eat steak and spuds.

Meat and potatoes is the staple diet of any athlete

 

Foreman ate Cheeseburgers.

Cmon kev, quit beating around the bush and tell us what you’re thinking!

 

By the way, I’ve never told this story before, ever.

But Goldman was such a strict micro managing nutritionist, that Rocky had to sneak bananas in his room when he was hungry.

Also, Goldman said that Rocky always wanted to eat more, and Goldman wouldn’t let him.

I wonder how fat Marciano would have been, at all, if he were to eat more during camp without sacrificing any of the hard work. Can’t imagine anyone being fat off that regimen.

 

They had some pretty weird ideas about diet back then. Athletes now days eat over three thousand calories. Training the way Rocky did on restricted calories could not have been good for him.

 

Yup, night and day.
They really kept the fighters as lean as possible.

 

Yeah, by the sounds of it they had him eating under 2000 calories a day. A man who is not training is supposed to eat well over 2000.

 

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Junk food? I don’t recall that as much. But are you insinuating that Goldman was doing good, even if it were indeed junk food? Many boxers today eat junk food. Like Foreman and Mayweather and Wilder and Rigoneaux. Certain junk foods are okay for certain situations.

Goldman wasn’t invested in Rocky until later in his career.

In fact, Goldman didn’t even attend Rocky’s earliest fights. My opinion is that Goldman didn’t believe in Rocky until Rocky kept putting up dubs.

However once they were a tight team, Goldman lived in the same place as Rocky, and was a serious stickler for eating. He considered making sure Rocky wasn’t “overeating” as one of his primary jobs.

When I’m home I can post that entire passage here. If someone has the book Corner Men, it should be there in the Goldman section.

 

I think I read that Gennady eats a ton of steak too in his camps. That and like 3 potatoes a day and chicken for lunch.

 

They often go to that Mexican restaurant down the street. That’s their favorite place to eat. But probably not his normal diet.