Sparring Tomorrow, Concerned About conditioning

One interval training exercise from one day to the next will not improve your conditioning. Just make sure your technique is in order and be efficient, which is the best way to conserve your stamina. If you want to condition, it has to be long-term. Worst outcome, you suck in sparring, but in the long run you should do your roadwork and try whatever else is out there.

 

If you're sparring then i'd advise doing nothing else on that day ..

 

PED's. Do it.

 

Depends how hard the sparring will be, and how intense the intervals are. The reason why your fatiguing so badly when sparring is because your body has not made the adaptions to allow you to work at the rate your trying to work at.

One interval session is not going to change that, you need to be progressing your intervals appropriately and i'd suggest using the rule of three. Try and make your intervals relevant to the time your going to spend in the ring Ie. If you want to get fit to do 3 x 3 start with 9 x 1 min sprints with gradually reducing rest periods. Start at maybe 2 mins to maximise your sprint and thus force your body to make suitable adaptions to the anerobic activity.

Ideally you need a trainer - but it is possible to get some advancement on your own.

 

If your a novice you shouldn't be sparring hard anyway. The only gyms that spar hard at the beginning are McDojo's.

 

lol - whats a McDojo?

 

A McDojo is a place where you get happy meal trainers who haven't a clue what their on about. For example making novice boxers spar hard. Or progressing their training too quickly. or too slowly.

Or trainers who lie about their qualification, and **** people up. Welcome to the world of the McDojo. Trust me there's millions of the ****ers. :yep

 

Wait a minute. There's such a thing as light sparring?

J/K...

 

sprinting probably your best best in teh short term however....

trying doing a couple of 100meters and jogging throug them and shadowboxing throught them

or do a 100m, job, 200m, job, 300, jog, 400m, jog, 300m, jog, 200m, jog, 100m...

you wont be as dead tired with a long run.

if you are not as winded when you are sparring then you might be able to grind out through the sparring session even if your body is tired. but its nothing worse than being both tired and winded!!!

goood luck

 

How is sprinting going to aid his conditioning for tomorrow? (sic)

 

If your sparring, your sparring. Running @ 530 in the morning honestly does not hinder your afternoon sparring session. Your runs are not going to leave your legs shot unless thats your goal. I run every morning at 530 and my workouts vary at the gym. a nice EASY 3 miles in the morning, good meals and i hard workout in the evening for two weeks will get you in shape enough to start turning up the tempo. after a week or two of letting your body adjust you can start doing hills, 400 rpts, 8's, long runs or whatever but you want to make sure you build up a base first so start easier

 

yea that happen to me last week, i did an hour long workout (legs, footwork drills, bagwork, and then abs) with my coach, and then this guy came in after the workout and wanted to spar, but my legs felt like noodles :-(
but i just told him alright let me get ready, so i got into the ring and just loosened up for a couple minutes and worked on my footwork, and then walla! my legs felt good during sparring, we went 4 X 2 minute rounds with 30 seconds rest in between, and although the last 30 seconds of the 4th round i gassed out, i still did good