Elite boxers run long distance. Why?

Blast from the past! Hope all is well with you Predator.

 

Man, I dont see how I'll ever reach anywhere near 5 miles.

2 slow ones gas me lol

 

He he he! I´m fine. I´m Ready to rumble again.

 

You will. just build it up slowely. it´s not that hard after a while.
But you have to do it regulary, that is the trick.
For a long time ago I hated running, it was the worst thing I knew, I planned to pay someone to do it for me. But after a while I noticed the difference in the ring and that gave me motivation to do it. Now I love it, apart from when it´s freezing outside, like now.
Cheers
The Predator

 

same dude

i HATE running

 

I think you need to be careful with weights, moving a weight is never gonna be sports specific when it comes to boxing, if you do weights I think it should be stressed that you should do plyometrics with a similar motion to your weights directly afterwards.

 

Using cables or in this case kettlebells is far more specific then machines etc because it is not isolating muscles. The complexity of the excercise develops functional strength. Fuctional strength is entirely relevant to boxing. In boxing its not the strength of the prime mover thats most important, its the assisting muscles and how well they perform. The stronger you are the better obviously.

 

I implore you guys to buy the book "Born To Run"


Just reading the reviews over the summer on amazon.com motivated me to run 12 straight miles, bleeding Achilles and all.

 

One of the most important things about aerobic running that goes un talked about, is that it will help your recovery. The greater your aerobic base, the better your catch your breath after a long flurry of punches and movement, hence better lungs during the fight. Anaerobic endurance is necessary for long combination punches, while aerobic for movement and recovery.

 

Dawson > Froch IMO.

And Dirrell beat him clearly but Carl got a gift.

 

I've been doing this routine where I run in between poles spaced somewhere between 200-250 apart(hazy i know). Run 10 times to each pole exerting maximal effort to last the routine.

I aimed to do a set of calesthetics inbetween each run but have found it to be near impossible to stand the whole workout that way. (i probably ditch the pushups after 3rd or 4th run)

Having this mixed with with the 3 mile run, I can say they both work really well together and Im having strong mass loss. (too much)

Definitely recommend ppl try this kind of workout for their boxing cardio. You'll also have to mix in some 100m sprints(or even less) aswell. I havent come up with a workout for that yet.

 

People don't talk about it because it isn't true... Anaerobic is far more effective way of training recovery. Your body needs to recover from punching, punching is anaerobic.

Aerobic training has very little carryover to combat sports.

 

I would think that having a good base of aerobic fitness is useful in that it would let you have greater stamina to conduct more anaerobic activity. I've always thought anaerobic was primarily your ability to conduct a short burst of activity without using oxygen stores and then recover.