How long does improving stamina take?

I have to agree if you do 12x3min straight up this is No way near 3x3min fight tempo, its good to train this way as a base builder but you gotta go shorter and harder after that coz there aint No shallow water when you enter that ring it gone be No ground under feet lol

 

Everyone’s body and path is different. What takes one guy four months to do might take another eight, or vice versa. Your own chemistry and aptitude and everything else goes into it — diet is important too (if you’re eating cheesecake for breakfast, lunch and dinner and someone else who started at the same time as you is eating properly, it’s a decent bet he’ll progress faster).

My experience, both for my own body and training others back in the day, is a lot of it happens in quantum leaps. You do a certain workout — say running + 4 rounds on the heavy bag, 4 skipping rope, 4 shadow boxing, 4 sparring — and you’re exhausted at the end of it. Rather than creep up to five, in my experience, you kind of stay exhausted at the end of it for a while and then suddenly you’re not tired at 4 and 6 isn’t even a huge test. But how long you stay at 4 may not be the same as someone else.

 

I’ve never encountered this thinking in boxing before. If you train for 12x3 and are only fighting, say, 3x2 then you’ll still be much fitter than anyone that you are fighting.

The OPs goal is fitness/stamina. I’m not sure on the details of his upcoming bouts but even if its only 3 rounds at 3 minutes length, he’ll still be much fitter if he trains for 12 rounds.

At the very minimum, OP should be training for double the rounds/minutes that the fight is expected to last, should it go the distance.

 

You probably haven't spent much time around boxing. There was a reason that Angelo Dundee said that it takes 10 years to build a 10 round fighter.

 

I’ve spent plenty time around boxing. Enough time, in fact, to know that there isn’t enough time in a short amateur bout for a boxer to tire and then get a second wind.

 

You're right here, thus why proper warm up is crucial.
But i have to agree here with other dude that 12 round x3min training is different ball game than really hard 3x3min , other guy will just kill you with intensity is same as marthon runnner trying to comepte in 400m dash, he will do ok but wont get any medal
But you wouldnt be training just 10 minutes i guess its like you do more work but treat everything before main workout as a extended warmp up and everything after as a cool down and do proper breaks between

Edit: some days you do only technical work but its basicly switching from hard 3 rounds in middle of workout or some kind of intervals and light long technical work other days

 

I can’t disagree with what you have written but amateur training is different now because amateur boxing is different now. It’s not like the old days when you had to land as many punches as you could in a round, it’s ten points must system and it’s less of a sprint in the ring than it used to be.

OP was asking the best way develop stamina for a fight and sparring is the best way followed closely by floor training. Roadwork is pointless if you can get enough rounds of sparring in. I’m sure that’s something we can all agree on.

 

Amatour boxing is still very fast even compared to 4-6 rounders in pro boxing, yea no discussion sparing the best use of your time but you cant spar everyday What you mean by flooor training? fullbody excersise circuits? if yes I would disagree here. As far as roadwork i have mixed feeling I guess it's ok but if i Had a list of training types or "excersies" it would be at far end of my top 10

 

It’s not that much faster; at least, not that I have seen.

Getting sparring 5-6 days a week is difficult to organise but I would defo try, where possible, to get in as much as I could in the lead up to bouts.

Yep, circuit training. Everyone is different but I’d go full on 6 days per week then go easier every 4th week. Then repeat that cycle so as not to go stale.

Shadow boxing would top the list after sparring. Plenty double end and speed bag work too. The heavy bag is not that useful once you have learned to hit correctly. Maybe only when learning to implement new combos etc.

 

I agree completely. We should also get in contact with the Olympic team and make sure the 100m sprinters are paticipating in marathons, obviously that'd help them to no end!

Seriously though, if you want to say to train for an extra round, then okay, I can get behind that. To say to train for a minimum of double is ridiculous. By your logic, pro boxers should be taining for 24 rounds which would be idiotic.

I've had discussions on this type of thing with people in the past. I've told people looking to pass a fitness test requiring they do a minimum of 30 pushups in a minute to train to do 35-40. Telling them to train for 60 would be overkill and a complete waste of time and effort. Why would you ever think that would be a good idea? Hmmm. I need to do xxxxxxx so I'll train for double what I need to be capable of! Why?

 

Yes and no it's not like 800m event participants don't ever run 5k in their training, they do and they do it pritty often

 

Nobody trains for 24 rounds: I was obviously meaning in preparation for 3 rounds amateur bouts. Don’t be a facetious.

 

It's simple - you train for what you need to do. You need to fight 3 rounds, you train for 3 rounds. Like I said, if you want to train for an extra round then go for it, but fighting for 6 rounds makes you good at fighting for 6 rounds. I get the idea of what you're saying but it doesn't work that way.