Normally u hear boxers go on a 4am or 5am run...Is there a difference if you run at 4am or say 8pm ? Also with weight training,to gain/maintain power,better to do heavier weights or ?
people run first thing because it helps mental strength and gives you time to recover during the day before you train at night. stay off weights unless you want to be slow and lose all flexibility. hth mirin' avatar btw
There is no difference if you run at 4am, to if you run at 6pm. Your still running, although, it is ****ing cold at 4am, and dark, which is not the best conditions to run in.
The first part, not really. The second part is true for most people. This is just uneducated bull****. In reality weights can improve both speed and flexibility.
GOD haven't you guys learned anything?! To be a boxer you must wake at 4am and run for an hour, then you must shadow box for dozens of rounds, do hundreds of push ups and thousands of crunches and then get a medicine ball bounced of your mid section at least 20 times. That is the ONLY WAY TO TRAIN. Weights make you slow and inflexible and you will get ridiculously bulky muscles like Arnie or Ronnie Coleman and you will gas out in a round. And running a ridiculous amount of miles in the wee hours of the morning is the only way to build the necessary cardio and mental toughness that you need to step in the ring.
bouncing medicine balls on your belly kinda sucks. one of our trainers used to drop 25 lb balls just below my sternum. that **** made me nauseous. I don't know how people manage to do that over and over without getting sick.
Boxers run early as its the best time to shed fat. Your glycogen(bodys prefered fuel source) are at their lowest so the body burns fat much quicker than at other times. And, it makes no difference if its 4am or 7am, as long as its before breakfast if its for the purpose of shedding fat. If your running purely for aerobic fitness, then the theory is everyone has biorhythms and so sometimes are better than others for that individual. I feel at my best about 10am for my toughest session, and again about 7-8, but if I train too hard then I cant sleep.
I dont know if it's considered mental strenght- but when I was a morning runner I felt good all the day. The morning runner doesnt need coffee to wakeup or feel better.:good but it's difficult getting up that early
for me it definitely helps mentally. draggin my ass out of bed at 5 am to run hard til i feel like puking and am laying in my front yard gasping for air while everyone else is sleeping. just a good feeling lol
Other than doing well in sparring, there's nothing like running early in the morning to make you feel smug. Actually, I get the same feeling when doing squats and deadlifts. I sometimes can't help laughing at the ****s doing bicep curls just as I leave the power rack.
