I got a potential fight in 4 weeks and I am not in good fighting shape right now do you guys think if I train like a beast until then I can be in real good fight shape. It will be my 19th amateur fight and my skills are fairly sharp right now. But I haven't fought in over a year cause I was in a car accident. This is my comeback fight so I want to be in good shape. My skills are alright right now but my conditioning isn't very good. Do you think its possible to get in tip top shape in like 3/4 weeks.
You won't be in 'tip-top' shape but you can make decent progress if you train fairly hard for the next three weeks.
When you say "my conditioning isn't very good", how bad are we talking? Have you been training at all lately? When was the last time you were training regularly. Even with something as short as a 2 week layoff, I'm sore for at least the first week back. You're probably much more genetically gifted than I am, but I would keep the pain relievers & energy drinks handy....
I've been training the past few weeks moderately like pad work with my trainer and all the general boxing exercises like shadowboxing, heavy bag, speedbag, up and down ball, etc. I only started doing road work this week and have only sparred a couple of times since I have been back. And I base my bad conditioning on my performance in sparring and it was obvious to me that am not where I used to be.
ah... okay, then you've at least started laying the ground work. Stay consistent, with your gym stuff and your road work and I think you should be okay - as long as you don't got a whole bunch of weight to lose. Maybe you won't be as good as you could be if you'd been hitting it hard all year, but much better off than if you were just coming back to the gym now with 4 weeks left. Really step it up this next month and only taper down a few days before. At the very least, you should be able to get to reasonable form in that amount of time.
Good advice above. Lots of hard sparring and conditioning work. You will not gain any substantial strength in 4 weeks, so I would drop any strength work that you do in favour of extra conditioning drills. In a timeframe as short as the one that you have, the tabata protocol can come in handy. Perfom tabata sprints and tabata punchout drills - these will up the intensity and bring significant gains in the time that you have available. If you can fit your conditioning work in the morning, and boxing training in the evening, do so; although don't spar on heavy legs. Work your schedule so when you are sparring, you feel 'fresh'. As Amy noted above, realistically you have 3 weeks to whip yourself into shape. In the final week, cut down on the volume and frequency, focus on short but intense padwork sessions. With the high workload that you are looking at, I would also look to take some glutamine to help you with recovery between workouts.
Run five miles a day and supplement it running hills if possible. Do four- minute rounds on the heavy bag going all out until you're exhausted--to prevent getting arm weary in the fight. That should get you ready. Good luck! http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Gans-Biog...39947/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/183-3907940-0224706
