an article on Khan's training routine: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ot...riza-reveals-the-Britons-training-regime.html THE ARIZA REGIME IN TRAINING CAMP “Early morning sessions of two hours start at 5.30am, with warm-up and warm-down,” Ariza explains. “When I have Manny Pacquiao and Amir together at track and running sessions every sprint is really competitive, every hill run. “It is never the same, so we go to the dunes at Malibu, swim in the sea at Santa Monica, run in the Hollywood Hills. It’s about variety, and all training is in intervals to simulate a boxing match, round by round. Even swimming in the sea can simulate being left on your own in the ring. FITNESS/STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING Mon – Track running and sprints, 400m and 200m sprints, UCLA track Tues – 30 lengths in Olympic size pool or in the sea for a mile at Santa Monica Weds – Stairs or hill running, Hollywood Hills Thurs – Strength and conditioning session, Gym. Fri – Sand dunes – Malibu Sat – Cone drills, lateral drills, similar to soccer players. BOXING SESSIONS Ariza: “Khan’s afternoon sessions in the Wild Card with Freddie Roach alternate. I make sure he is hydrated at these times” Mon, Weds, Fri – Sparring Tues, Thurs, Sat — Khan works pads, speedball and strategy with Roach. MEALS/REST 5am Vitamins and Protein shake before training. 8am Oatmeal/protein recovery shake after training. 8-10am Sleep. 10am Breakfast — eggs, toast, beans. 10.30am-12.00pm Rest, computer games (favourites are Fight Night Boxing and Fifa 11) 12pm Protein shake 12-3pm Gym — Khan works with Freddie Roach, Ariza completes warm-up, warm-down 3pm Protein and carbohydrate mixture recovery shake 3-4pm Strengthening/stretch down 6pm Dinner — chicken or fish, rice and vegetables 9pm Cottage cheese 7-8 hours sleep per day. DIET/CALORIFIC INTAKE “Amir has around 200gms of protein a day when he is in training camp, with seven separate meals a day for 5 to 7 weeks,” Ariza says. “He consumes 6,500-6,800 calories a day, and burns 5,000 calories in training, in 3-4 hours of high intensity training every 24 hours. “A fortnight before the fight, we taper down. In fight week, he starts at around 150lbs and we reduce the calories, and his fluids to get to the 140lb limit. Teri Tom, a sports scientist at UCLA, has devised a morning/evening two-a-day vitamin programme for Amir.”
Lol. Bull****. 3-4 hours of "high intensity training" I can half kill myself in 10 minutes of high intensity training. If his "HIT" lasts that long it isn't very intense. The media always bull**** athlete's routines to make them look so amazing and tough. Unless you see these guys doing their workouts don't believe what you read.
Every 24 hours he does 3-4 hours of "high intensity training". Bull****. HIT has to be short in duration as it's so stressful on the body. 3-4 hours every day, 5 days a week? **** off. Even if it's spread out in hour blocks, it's still ridiculous. To keep that up he can't be training that hard.
As said, i got the impression he was referring to his training in general. Maybe its the journo's grammar but do you truly think Ariza would claim such feat's and expect people to believe him ? Anyways, enjoy being angry :good
Not angry at all, just think it' funny people like you just accept media bull**** because they don't know any better. :good
There was a an article in men's health online that had a bunch of his plyometric exercise routine on video. I'll see if I can find them again.
Peep the link for vids. http://reebokzigtech.menshealth.co.uk/amirkhan/article/9/The-Khan-Workout:-Stage-1.html
If he's expending such a huge amount of energy every day wouldn't that be necessary to build/preserve muscle? Also, don't forget that 140lbs is an artificial weight. He probably weighs more like 160 for most of his training camp
