Training smart.

training smart means your not just going training and going through the motions, you make every session count

if your feeling flat, take a day off instead most people will think the more the better, thats not smart listen to your body

plan out your weekly training sessions, not smart would be sparring monday, tuesday and wednesday, sprints(morning) and long distance(evening) run thursday, strenght and power on friday with weights in morning plyometrics evenings, conditioning sat morning and sat evening

smarter would be sparring monday, conditioning tuesday, sparring wednesday, sprints thursday, spar friday, long run saturday etc etc

this way you can make the most out of your time and your sessions, if you were to hit the heavybag daily for 10 rounds and do nothing else would not be very smart, this is an extreme example but hopefully you get the drift

 

I think the bold is smarter then the people who sprint on 1 day and do a long run the other (even though i've done that before).

Training smart is very important and in my view harder then training hard. People feel that the harder workout is better then the easy one which it always isnt. I for one am guilty of probably training harder then i do smart.

 

The way I see it, it means bide your time, and pick your battles.
If you are not fighting for 6 months, why would you go ALL OUT on conditioning, and sparring, from 6months out? Work on different areas, weaknesses, have some lighter sessions, relax your mind and body, for a time, and then ramp it up closer to your competition. If you are in pain, and without great pressure to compete soon, then take it a little easier, get it seen to, work other areas. It can also mean don't train through great pain, where there is no need. If you have a niggle, tear, or other injury that is getting worse, don't dose up on painkillers and stimulants to mask it and carry on.
Also the obvious thing is, don't just windmill in, train like you want to fight and what will actually improve your performance. I.e don't exclusively do some crazy conditioning circuit for 20 minutes every single training session, don't just flurry the bag for 60 seconds and rest for 60 seconds every session. In sparring, don't just go to war every time, there are many aspects to boxing that do not involve slugging it out in the middle of the ring with your opponent. To be a well rounded fighter and athlete, you need to eliminate weaknesses and have more skills, tactics and abilities in your arsenal than your opponents, in order to succeed. If you have good conditioning, and can go 12 rounds of hard work on the bags without much issue, then you do not need to work that hard on your punching stamina, by default you will have another area that is a weakness, if you don't, you shouldn't be on here asking what smart training is, and should be a world champion.
However don't confuse this with "less is more", sometimes that is the case, not always. If you are making progress, winning fights, happy with your performance, training 3 hours a day 6 days a week, and somebody says "that's too much, that's not smart, pace yourself, mix it up, do this this this", then you should not listen to him because everyone is different, and you are reaching your goals with the training methods you are currently employing. So you may already be training smart, which would be to do what you need to do to succeed.
Best of luck!

 

why? personally if i had a choice id never do both on the same day, the second session will be close to pointless, at least if you got 24hrs recovery its better than 6 or 8

 

The way i see it which makes sence to me is that doing sprints in the morning doesnt really hammer your ability to do a long run. The long run doesnt really require intensity so after 6/8 hours of recovery and a few meals in between you should be able to do the run no problem. Doing it this way mean that the next day you don't run and give your legs around 36+ hours depending on when your next run is. For me i felt like my legs were too tired if i was running 4 days in a week where as when i run two days a week( even though its twice) i dont feel worn out or tired.

 

cant say i agree, doing sprints is high intensity work on the exact muscles you use for running so it will hammer your ability to do on the same day, that is exactly what not training smart is

opening poster should take note

 

different opinions, i agree with whats in bold, hench not advising doing them on another day because you're not letting the muscle recover.
Hate to use a bodybuilding example to show what i mean but isnt it better to work your chest and shoulders on same day instead of doing chest on monday and shoulders on tuesday.

 

you cant compare those two sports like that but since you brought it up, for bodybuilding chest and shoulders would be done on seperate days and not on consecutive days,they would never be done together its too much work for one day, it would take a bodybuilder close to 2 hours to do chest and shoulders, same as sprints and long run shouldnt be done on same day and if possible not on consecutive days, i done consecutive days a few weeks back, i do all my running on threadmills so its accurate down to the last metre and my long run was a lot short from the sprints the previous day, i wouldnt bother two long runs and two sessions of sprints in the one week, its too much, i only ever do one each and split them up, i do another conditioning day, a strenght day and then a couple sparring and boxing days