Why do boxers....

Discussion in 'Boxing Training' started by nuffin_man, May 24, 2011.


  1. Valane

    Valane Active Member Full Member

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    Long distance runners train very inefficiently based on your logic.

    Stop posting such missinformation please.
     
  2. Ylem

    Ylem Well-Known Member Full Member

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    correct, for 12*3 min rounds of boxing they train incredibly inefficiently. take some one who runs marathons and have him hit the bag all out, i doubt hed last more then 3 rounds.

    for running a marthon they dont just do long runs.

    in fact the best marathon runners lift weights, do interval training, hill training and tempo runs while they tend to do the real long runs only once or twice a week.

    and by "thats really all that matters" im saying if you read anything ive typed all you really need to read is "boxers run distance so they can breath more calmly"
     
  3. SupraTT24

    SupraTT24 Heart Of A Champion Full Member

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    Lol just run.. This thread is getting ridiculous. You can fight doin HIIT, you can fight doing long distance, and you can fight doing both.. why do they do it? cuz it ****in works lol as over a century of evidence has supported :deal
     
  4. nuffin_man

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    Yeah but why? :hey
     
  5. SupraTT24

    SupraTT24 Heart Of A Champion Full Member

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    "Becuz I said so!"
     
  6. Boxinglad123

    Boxinglad123 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I actually enjoy running as time to mentally prepare for a fight. When I run, I make sure I can really feel my lungs afterwards.
     
  7. P.4.P.G.O.A.T.

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    Personally, I like my runs 4-5 miles with 3 or 4 sprints mixed in, but generally at a normal goes I do Tabatas and punch out rounds pretty frequently.
     
  8. Dish

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    first build an aerobic base (long distance runs). Only then can you start really conditioning your anaerobic tolerance (HIIT).
     
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  9. BladeJrs

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    Wow...
    So on top of incorrectly defining cardio, you also say that johnboy was describing aerobic exercise, implying that it's something different than cardio?
    Speechless.

    I have never been one of the MANY people to 'bash' you on this board, but it really is ridiculous how easy you make it for people to attack what you say.
     
  10. Ylem

    Ylem Well-Known Member Full Member

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    so what does it mean if i were to say i have good cardio or that guy has good cardio? what is good cardio? define good cardio. or lets say i want to improve my cardio, what am i improving?
     
  11. BladeJrs

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    Cardio is not how fast your heart rate comes down after intense activity. Like johnboy already told you, it's activity to elevate your heart rate for an extended period of time. i.e. AEROBIC ACTIVITY. Aerobic activity IS cardio.

    From an adjective perspective, to say one has good cardio encompasses things such as being able to sustain an elevated heart rate for an extended period, good lung capacity, high blood-oxygen levels, an efficient/strong heart, etc. If you say you want to improve your cardio, these are the things you're improving.

    Again, like johnboy said, sprints/intervals are not the same, as the point of this type of ANAEROBIC activity is to bring your heart rate up and down, not keep it elevated for extended periods.
     
  12. Ylem

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    aerobic activity is cardio exercise, exercise for your heart. the issue is that people say its exercise that improves cardio...there fore im gonna call it cardio....when actually its cardio exercise.

    and what do all those things improve? how quickly your heart returns to a normal rate after intense exercise


    besides i thought cardio was aerobic activity, now your telling me its also "being able to sustain an elevated heart rate for an extended period, good lung capacity, high blood-oxygen levels, an efficient/strong heart, etc" But wait i thought cardio was only aerobic exercise.......


    and this type of exercise will improve your cardio. it will improve your lung capacity, your vo2 max, and strengthen your heart. HIIT is cardio exercise. sprints and intervals are cardio exercise just as much as running for an hour is cardio exercise. its not Cardio.....its cardio Exercise.....and more specifically, depending on the exercise, its either aerobic exercise or anaerobic exercise.

    well probly not anaerobic exercise, thats probly not going to be that great for your heart but something like sprinting for 3 mins then a 1 min rest then repeat is aerobic, things like hiit are aerobic. any time you consistenly have an elevated heart rate for more then a few minutes your doing something aerobic. while anaerobic exercise is things like lifting your 1 rep max, maybe the last 30 seconds of your intervals, when you throw a 5 hit combo, ect
     
  13. BladeJrs

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    a) When johnboy mentioned sprints you said he was describing aerobic activity. I'm not sure if it's possible for you to have been any more wrong here.

    b) You're simply wrong. You can reach all you want but your definition of cardio is incorrect. When was the last time anyone answered the question of "why do you jog?" or anything like that with "so my heart rate will come down quicker." Probably never, because that's not the main purpose of aerobic/cardio activity.

    Even if you want to say a bonus effect of cardio is faster recover (which again, intervals would benefit you more here) of heart rate, this would be due to improving the things I mentioned in the previous post, which are the main points of cardio. You're saying cardio leads to something else, which leads to something else, then define it based on that potential additional side-effect?

    Screw it. Based on you rationale for definitions, I will now define cardio activity as the ability to use more febreeze. Since cardio leads to increased heart rate and body temp, which leads to sweating, which leads to clothes smelling more, which leads to the need to febreeze them.
     
  14. Slacker

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    Anaerobic training is better for conditioning your body for the spurratic action of boxing.

    However, aerobic exercise is good for overal endurance.
     
  15. BladeJrs

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    Yea, and you get all that from aerobic activity. I don't understand what you're not getting about that.

    And stop editing every one of your posts as I'm trying to respond. Re-read your thoughts and edit them instead of posting and changing it later.