How to train like an Olympian!!: Olympic level training tips and information

Do you live in the UK?

If so, you can arrange to go watch team GB train at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield.

 

Everyone trains differently. Everyone is going to have a different response to the same thing thing. Learn about the responses to training, and learn about nutrition. Trying to emulate someone else is foolish. You're at a different stage.
Lomachenko was training 3 times a day leading up to the olympics, Amir Khan would train 3 times a week.
There are a million variables, and the elite guys are generally going to succeed regardless of what they do.
Improve your skills and aim to progress. There is no perfect routine that leaves you in perfect shape all year round. You need to vary your training and progress your training leading up to competition.

 

olympic boxing = amateur boxing but at the highest level

so just join a boxing gym, dont worry about olympic athletes, thats a whole other world compared to a guy off the street

 

To get in the Squad, is the hard bit. All the hard work is done before. When with the Amatuers, I had lots of Guys in the Squad, dont know one who enjoyed it. But the Sparring is good, but to me the system is too regimental.

 

Isn't the ali centre in kentucky? You should be able to find some coaches, if you really serious about boxing kevin rooney still trains boxers in catskills new york, I heard he was looking for new talent.

 

I see, well you probably going to have to move anyway if you want to make the olympics. Just look at gabby douglas, she had to move to iowa or some **** state and she is from pennyslvania just to get trained. Ali had to move all the way down to florida and he is from kentucky. Without being able to spar at least 2 times a week it will be hard for you to become great. You can still do it, but realize that to even make the olypmics you have to go to competitions all over the usa. If your unwilling to travel forget it. Boxers are not all dumb, but when I took it as a kid, you spend so much time travelling around to try to make it you have so little time to study. And I live in a major city. If you aren't willing to move, forget it.

 

go to this link on the AIBA website.

you might find part 2 of the coaching manual interesting. Cuba, Russia, USA and Europe all have sections that suggest how to train their style, along with peripheral items like psychology, blah blah blah.

http://aiba.org/default.aspx?pId=6092#

(if the page doesn't work go to www.aiba.org , click on documents tab and select Coaches Manuals)

 

Boxers in most Olympic squads generally train 3 times a day, with sessions focusing on track work/running, strength work, skill sessions, anaerobic/aerobic fitness, sparring and mental preparation.

Running sessions are generally something like 8x400 with a 1 minute break or 5x800 with a 1 minute break or sometimes 3x3000m with a 5 minute break.

Also teams usually spend 8-12 weeks travelling and competing in international tournaments before any major international competition eg worlds, olympics.

many teams also won't allow you to be more than 7% heavier than your fighting weight while in training camp or travelling for competitions, so a 56kg fighter will have to maintain a weight under 60kg