im an amatuer boxer, ive been boxing nearly 7 months now. After my last fight 3 weeks ago ive taken a break on roadwork due to some injuries and personal issues. This morning its 6am right now in London, im thinking of doing a 3-4 mile run but light jogging, I have a bad lower back and my coach said to refrain from sparring but said I need to get my fitness back, is it even worth doing light jogging for that distance as an amatuer? ill obviously pick it up at points and increase speed but I dont think it would be a good idea to go all out testing myself with a couple minor injuries and no sleep for 27 or so hours. Are slow paced jogs worth it? I want to do it, unless it would be pretty much worthless.
I would say yes. If you want to make it you need to sacrifice everything and train. But reality is life is much more than boxing. I don't know your back issues. And I don't know if you have been checked and diagnosed by an specialist. Get to run ASAP. But get checked even sooner. And read on exercises to improve your back muscles. I did some boxing. But I understood that is not for everybody. Today, I am an anesthetist.
Long slow jogs are useless for boxing. Doesn't increase boxing fitness and decreases strength/power. Also fatiguing and increases your chances of picking up injuries. Save your energy for work that will actually improve your boxing game. If you're not training above lactate threshold you're not increasing your boxing fitness. And you don't/can't do that everyday. You have a bad lower back for a reason, it's because of muscular/postural imbalances or just simply a lack of strength (strength is the greatest preventative measure against injury). Also you can't lose that much fitness in 3 weeks, you need to be injury free before doing anything anyway. Strength train to rehab and prevent yourself from future injury. In the meantime shadowbox, that's obviously far more specific to boxing fitness than a run is anyway and you can improve your technique. I don't know any boxing coach who is anywhere near to actually understanding how to train and recover for strength and conditioning. Listen to him for boxing technique/strategy/psychological support but when he talks about other things I'd be seeking a more educated opinion, or educating myself.
His post is all false. Walking and slow jogging is great for fitness and recovery from injuries.read this book: http://books.google.ca/books?id=wAa9qq9kbncC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false
atsch That's a book for runners. Noakes isn't a guy who is known for practical advice in the field anyway, he's known for disagreeing with everything every other expert says. Sometimes he's on point but a lot of the time he's not. Tell me, how is decreasing your strength and putting more stress on your body going to help an injury?
Going for a jog doesn't decrease your strength, mang. But the main thing is the kid didn't sleep for 27hr and wants to exercise? **** that, get your damn sleep, it'll do more for you than any exercise will.
Countless research says it does, you change the phenotype of your muscle fibres. If you're only jogging once a week and you still strength train then you wouldn't notice anything, but what would the point be? Resistance training can improve endurance performance but endurance training only decreases strength/power performance. True that about getting his sleep.
