Are they still in the gym at least 3-5 days a week when they are not fighting? Noob question i know but i'm kind of wondering why someone at a high level would only want to start training for 3 months and anything before that a large break. :huh sorry if this is a dumb question, i never bothered to ask this ever
Because the idea is that they design the training camp in order for them to peak for the actual event. After that, they'll taper off for a while before the next event. When you're looking at the very top of the game, the likes of Mayweather and co., if they were to enter another training camp straight after a big fight, their body would just start to shut down after a while.
You should be in the gym just about everyday anyway. Conditioning is an on-going and constant process, as is learning/perfecting boxing skill and technique. The training camp is for putting in place a particular fight plan, if there is one, to practice specific things, and to make sure the fighter peaks at the right time.
Sure it is. That is how you stay in shape between fights, so you go to training camp instead of "fat farm", and that is how you learn new things and get better at your craft. That is what fighters used to do; now, not so much, and it shows. Eddie Futch didn't see Riddick Bowe for almost a year after he won the title. Futch said he came to camp at 300 pounds and that he practically had to be taught to box all over again. It doesn't make any sense to not practice something for months on end, then come back and expect to get sharp at it all over again. You wouldn't practice law that way.
I'm not saying don't practice it for months between camps, but at the very elite level, you need time to taper off. Training in times between camps at that level should largely be 'ticking over' sessions.
So basically ur both agreeing with each other ha ha - so do I you should tick over by working on skills
:yep Yeah. I've felt first hand the effects of overtraining and **** me, it's very, very shitty and I'm by no means an elite level athlete.
What constitutes as overtrainnig? Mental burnout, too many injuries from repetitive stress, or just loss of interest (I guess thats mental burnout)?
For me I think it was a nervous system issue. I was feeling sluggish contstantly, falling asleep all the time and my head was all over the place mentally.
I'd been coming 7 weeks of intense training, after which I was planning on having a break but I was told I was fighting again two weeks after so had to keep training. I got pulled out the week of the fight as I was just totally ****ed. The 7 weeks of intense training was on the back of around 12-13 months of training without any extended period of rest, which was extremely stupid.
I know and I got into great shape through the intense 7 weeks training, because it was a well planned and well structured training routine with great nutrition to go along with it, I just needed a bit time off straight after that fight since I've been dieting for so long, it plays havok with hormones.