Marciano's Inhuman Training Regimen

The heavier the bag makes it harder on the wrists

 

Sorry I used the wrong descriptor apparently

Also no your **** is literally provably false

 

Here's so videos of the jump rope, speedbag, shadowboxing and medicine ball work you missed

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Oh yeah and the padwork:

http://sports.mearsonlineauctions.com/ItemImages/000037/accb99a4-8940-43da-9dc1-f07525fdc8a0_lg.jpeg

 

Of course he trained like a demon. If he didn't he would not have been able to throw over 100 punches in the 15th round of a fight.

Anyone who ever actually watched a video of the man fighting knows that he MUST have trained like a madman.

49-0, 88% Knockout percentage. Two fine heavyweight records.

 

Deloading? I make sure to deload every day.

The claim that Marciano slept and Napped 14 hours a day is ridiculous and I don't care who wrote it.

 

I read he believed if he could move a 300lb bag with punches he could move 200lb men but I will say this I used a 250lb bag a few times which was not good for a fighters movement but was great for strength but bad on hands if it isn't a waterbag......punching power may not increases but punching strength could and pushing the bag making room to punch helps within inside fighting....it wasn't many years before this era that submission wrestling was a staple in many fighters training not all but it is obvious many felt the strength advantage they got grappling was important

 

Marciano definitely trained hard.
He was obviously well conditioned and in great shape for his fights, and had to be because he was not that technically gifted.
The regimen you describe 6 miles (in 1 hour) and then 3 rounds of sparring is what an amateur boxer might do. Probably less actually.
I'm sure it's not all he did, nobody builds the level of stamina and workrate he had just on that.

 

Marciano did not train excessively harder than other fighters of his era.What he did do was train appreciably longer, up to 5/6 months in camp for individual fights.

 

No, it was most likely a deload. Yes, he did many of these things on the same day, as those videos were all one day of training.

Power naps have alot of research saying they're good for you health and performance wise, but 14 hours? Really?

 

Ok I did some digging:

From Sports Illustrated "The Vault"

No one understood his limitations better than Marciano himself, and his whole monkish existence in the gym and on the road was geared to making up for them, to developing what gifts he had. He thought nothing of walking the 75 blocks from his room to the gym to train. A health buff long before it became the fashion, he ate veggies, sipped only an occasional glass of Lancer's rosè, always with dinner, and carried a jar of honey in his pocket to sweeten his coffee. He chewed but never swallowed his steak, and left the ruminated chaws in a bowl next to his plate. And Marciano may be the only fighter in history who exercised his eyeballs, obtaining for this purpose a pendulum that he rigged above his bed. Lying flat on his back, with his head still, he would follow the pendulum back and forth with his eyes—convinced, of course, that stronger eyeballs did a better fighter make. More than once he sparred 250 rounds for a single fight, 100 rounds more than normal, and there was never anything in his ring work to suggest a hesitation waltz.