Negative Effects of Roadwork

Best thing to do is take Sunday off

 

people run every day because they are ill informed like i was! hence the stuffed knees and ankles at 23 !

look into interval and HIIT training. If you want to road work still cut it down to 2 - 3 times a week.

 

tyson trained 7 days aweek.

 

you fought alot of 10 round and 12 round professional fights? :good

 

And?

 

why do people try and copy or emulate professional fighters training.... uh they did 10 miles a day so that means i need to... never mind the fact your talking 20 years ago.. its 2011 why doesnt this sport progress like others?

 

Tyson also struggled to do 30 sit-ups when he started training. The body takes time to adapt.

 

I think there's more value in sprint training and getting conditioning from throwing punches and getting in ring time. boxing tends to be done in spurts, not a jog.

 

I agree. I always hear about Clottey's insane running distances/jump rope duration. But he doesn't have the energy to throw more than 15 punches a round. Why does he bother? He'd be way better off doing a few explosive exercises so maybe he can get someone out of there when he hurts them.

Love the sprinting, start feeling sick and weak if I run more than 15 miles a week, sometimes dont even get to 5 miles.

Ideally the bag work and medium, non injurious sparring should be helping their conditioning too, but hard, hard sparring probably isn't the best place to get your cardio in.

 

i can only go from my own experiences and i know when i ran 7-10 miles everyday without fail for about a year or more i was no where near as fit or conditioned as i am now, and i probably run in total 5 miles at the most a WEEK but as interval training

 

In about 2 months time everything changes, trust me :yep.

 

A big point about training in general is understanding what your body can and cannot take. Then overcoming that weakness if your doing it for something like boxing. :bbb

Some folks are naturally built long distance runners, some are sprinters.
I'm a mid-range sprinter (ran the 400 for Varsity which is just a full lap dead sprint around the track). I prefer to run shorter distances but at a quicker pace. I don't find a need to run 7 days a week right now because I make sure to give it all I got each time that I do run so that I know I earned the recovery period.

I also am employed at a job that has me running/sprinting for 4-5 hrs. per night so I get a majority of my roadwork from that right now.
Once I feel that it isn't enough, I will probably start adding additional roadwork as I see fit.

The negative effects of Roadwork? I have only seen one case of it and it was an old Lt. Cmdr from the Navy. He claimed he ran all the time and the impact damaged his spine over time from running long distances. You can obviously tell just from looking at the dude because he was hunched over all the time. The only injury I ever received from too much roadwork was the worst case of shin splints in my life. It hurt so bad I couldn't even go upstairs but I felt it was only because I was so out of shape when I went into the Army. Ever since then though, my shins feel like they are made of iron and haven't had an issue with it ever since.

 

Im not trying to pick an argument but how in the hell do you know that ?

 

I think road work is very important, and I'm of the opinion that people shun it and find other things to do (Like HIITs) initially because they find road work boring. The fact that HIITs may be better is an afterthought applied to justify getting out of long runs.

Sure HIITs are great, just be wary of data that comes from this "after the fact" reasoning. It's also prevalent among drug users who are trying to justify their habit(Ever had a pot-head give you a 45 minute lecture of the benefits of pot between bouts of acting like a dumbass?)