Does a prime Jack Dempsey beat the Joshua of today?

How so? (And I never liked that expression. What else are you going to do with cake? I've eaten it many times and was, believe it or not, in possession of it beforehand.)

 

Holy ****, I do't suppose you watch Loyd and Matt Easton as well?

 

Have you noticed any improvement in stamina ?

 

Fair enough, but let's be clear about what each of us is conceding:

You're conceding that you haven't demonstrated that interval training is novel or especially efficacious, and I'm conceding that its efficacy remains, at least in this context, undetermined.

 

Well you get to challenge everyone for proof but don't have to provide anything in return.

The saying is odd for sure but everyone knows what it means i would guess.

 

I'm happy to provide proof or freely admit that I can't, so long as you specify the claim you'd like me to prove.

 

Yeah, maybe.
Thinking out loud now, I can remember Ad Wolgast showing 30 second bursts in like the 40th round of a fight.

It's so easy to mistake new terms for new concepts.
Sometimes I get caught up in the new age terminology.

But then I use a bit of reflective common sense, and realize that our ancestors were far more worldly people. Who dealt with animalistic physics on an everyday basis far more than us. The average person today stares at a screen for hours a day. I'm also a believer that you can go farther with self-realization than you can with any tool, including for physical activity.

 

I didn't say *no* claim can be made without formal scientific support. If you claim that blue boxing gloves are much more common in professional bouts than they were in 1940, I'm happy to let casual observation suffice to determine that claim, unless I guess anyone insists on contesting it.

But if you say blue gloves have a psychological effect that makes the fighters less aggressive and results in objectively fewer punches thrown, you're going to need scientific evidence and I'm going to need absolutely nothing but passive skepticism.
See how that works?

 

That comes under stamina.

No.
And I don't think it's anything new anyway.

Going "all-out" for short bursts ... aiming to lengthen those bursts, while shortening rest periods .... that's savagely old school.

 

Of course yo can make any claim you like. But you don't get to enjoy the imprimatur of science without actual scientific evidence. You're free to make all the armchair arguments you like, and those aren't necessarily wrong or unhelpful in determining what's most likely to be true.
They're just not science.