I believe you should throw sprints in roadwork, but its more important to do a long run still.. Like, do sprints, but make sure you return to your old pace and do at least 3 miles. My reasoning? Everything I do in the way of traditional boxing workouts end up being intense and anaerobic for the most part.
What I do is a thirty-forty minute jog at a comfortable rate that keeps my heart rate up, makes me sweat. Then at the end there is a hill that I can sprint to the top of in 15-20 seconds. I sprint to the top of it three times at the end of my run. It's the perfect way to cap my run off with some intensity.
i do 4 x 2 min rounds 20 secs jogging then 10 secs sprinting for 2 mins, then 1 min rest(almost) this is far far harder than distance running so hard in fact i have to rest 3 minutes after the secoond round cos i just keep falling over
"Whatever works". Jones was hysterically anti-weights for a huge swathe of his career and pretty much personifies speed on film however. Is this support agreeable to you?
I agree, especially handy when you're finishing an opponent. Carl Froch talked about this recently. Hill sprints, he believes, makes him more lethal when he is tired, hurts his man and needs to hand out "30 seconds of hell". There's a really steep hill beside my house with a stupidly steep peak (almost using your hands). I used to sprint up the hill then jog back down. Every third time I would sprint up the hill, jog back down to the foot of the peak, spring up just that stupid peak. And that's the fittest I ever was. But now it makes me do sicks.
Yep, that's why I throw in the hill sprints at the end. It improves conditioning like nothing else. Lately I haven't been doing my runs though, but have been playing Squash (one to three hour sessions) every other day or so, which is tremendous for fitness. It works your heart so heavily that I actually know someone who dropped dead on the court once (or, knew him at least). It's basically like doing suicides in a structured sport environment.
I agree 100%. Fortunately we are now at last seeing more progressive training methods being employed rather than the tired old regimes which were merely handed down from trainer to fighter who became a trainer was he finished fighting etc etc. A long slow run does not replicate any part of a fight,pro or amateur, whereas sprints/interval training is much more realistic on the body
Sprint work will really test your lungs. You may think your fit but do some sprint work and then you might realise you not as fit as you think. Its all very well punching a bag and doing some skipping. But intense running is a simple and truthful way to test your core fitness. In my experience