How to get down to 152(amateur welterweight) in 3-4 weeks? I'm at a good weight now, I weighed 157 last Thursday but probably a pound or so more now since it's Thanksgiving week, I did run 3 miles or so yesterday and trained Monday and Tuesday and went home Tuesday night, and my gym is closed all week now anyways. I've cut down on soda completely during the week when I'm doing training and try to eat a healtheir diet, it's not always easy doing that in the college cafeteria but I make due. I usually train 4 times a week at my boxing gym and 3 if not that doing lots of running, freeweights, heavy bag, double end bag work, some sparring, etc... But I need to just get to welterweight to be at a better weight class, I'm around 5'9-5'10 and it'll be me cutting down to a weight with a low body fat percentage, so these last pounds will be tough. I may be fighting in the Silver Gloves tourney on December 18 so that's a potential timeline for losing the weight. Any help would be good.:good
just carry on what your doing, and be strict on your diet cutting out the soda completley, 3 kilos is not alot to lose in 4 weeks if your strict but you would want to be at your weight preferrably a week before, try going in the sauna if you have access aswell that can help sometimes.
Aint that the truth. And the going to the sauna to lose the weight. Going into the sauna wont make you lose body fat, just water, impurities and vitatmins/minerals. Anyways, dont just cut out soda the week of trianing as you put it. Cut it out completely. I have a soda once in a blue moon but otherwise its a horrible drink, as well as juices with added nonnatural sugar. If you weigh 157 now just eat healthy and pick up the cardio to lose a couple more. I fight 152 and I walk around about 155-157. I just maintain a good weight and then dehydrate before weigh-in. You always have about 6 hours or so between the weigh-in and the fight to rehydrate and load up on good carbs. This is how I do it anyways and I always feel great.
Yes, because my trainer doesn't mind putting us in fights if he feels we're ready after a couple months of training, he was wanting me to fight Nov. 21 at first, but I wasn't ready, and if I can prove I'm ready the next couple weeks, which I hope I can do, I'll be fighting soon. One guy at my gym has been training four months and he already has 4 fights. I'm not sure if this is a very common method of bringing people along though.
Do frequent, smaller workouts throughout the day to keep your metabolism chugging along at a fast pace. Since youve got a fight coming up doing some shadowboxing around 5 rounds mid-day would be good since you may be able to improve your skills some more and you can make it intense if you go hard. When you fight youll be going hard so its best to get used to it now. Tabatas only take 4 minutes and are intense, you could just do a set or two of tabata burpees scattered throughout the day to stoke your metabolism. Im sure normally you do your abs right after your training, or as part of your training as a whole. You could wait a few hours and then do your abs to stoke your metabolism a bit more. Just a few easy strategies. What does your training normally look like?
damn wizard you must have gotten a lot better if your looking to go straight into competition, have you had any sort of fight yet
Not yet, I'm hoping to make my amateur debut sometime soon. And for the person that wanted to know what my training looked like. Usually at least 4 or 5 miles a running a day, sometimes 2 or 7 though. Heavybag work from 3-6 rounds along with speedbag, double endbag work, mitt work, freeweight work to build up the shoulders, sit-ups push-ups, the six punch system, sparring once a week usually, and defensive drills.
Boxingwizard... are you the guy who said that he had drank Gatorade for Nutrition and punched a garbage bag covered heavy bag?
Yes, I've improved a lot since those days. I sparred 3 rounds today with 3 different guys and my trainer thinks I'm ready to fight this Saturday. I'm leaning towarda doing it, my trainer said my jab and defense was going good. And the Silver Gloves are in 3 weeks so I might as well get my first fight in before then to get experience.
Simular situation so maybe I can help... Started at 66kg trying to get down to 62kg in 4 weeks. Got 12 days left now, my diet this week is between 1200 and 1400 calories as I'm trying to make weight (currently at 64kg). Here were my aims when putting a cardio routine together: 1) To not be too boring - Put various challenges and various movements in 2) To not take too long to recover from - Make sure not all the same muscle groups are used 3) Burn fat through LSD - Make sure it can be done for over 30 minutes Here is what I came up with: 20 Minutes on Treadmil - Burnt 300 Calories 15 Minutes on Ski Machine - Burnt 180 Calories 10 Minutes on Bike - Burnt 90 Calories 5 Minutes on Rower - Burnt 60 Calories Total : 630 Calories Logic Well as I said I wanted to be able to recover easily... I am not sure about you guys but 50 minutes on a treadmill does my back in, 50 minutes on the bike does my quads, 50 minutes on the ski machine does my calves and 50 minutes on the rower would do my shoulders and chest if I could do it for that long So what I thought was as I'm trying to lose fat and not fatique my muscles (I need them for MMA training) if I was to do this in the morning then I should be able to recover from it... well it seemed to have worked as after having done them yesterday I feel fine and am ready to do it again this morning The other good thing about it is that you can easily challenge yourself by either adding calories or time (e.g. for the bike I can aim for 100 calories next time OR you could add another 1 minute to each exercise a week. They say never to aim for more than 1ib a week weight loss through added cardio (3500 calories) so 630 x 6 = 3780 Calories is about right.
