Your body repairs and recovers stronger then before in order to cope with the requirements of training. Homeostasis.... Training itself just damages your muscles and makes you tired. Without adequate recovery you are simply injuring yourself.
Perfect wording. You need hunger to keep coming back to the gym for that grueling training. You need your body to recover and your head to clear out. I believe even at amateur levels, this is very necessary. I go through 2.5 to 3 months, 5-6 days a week for 2-3 hours a day. When getting closer to those 3 months, my body simply starts breaking down with small injuries. Big ones when you ignore the small signs. And most importantly, I feel sleepy all the time and can't concentrate during the day. I start to look for excuses to miss the gym. No more hunger for the game. It's like learning to cycle your natural performance enhancers.
So bassically you can just do the norm instead of going balls to the wall with the running, conditioning of the muscles and such? like just hit the bag, padwork, double end drills etc like 3-5 times a week when its been a month since you're fight?
have you ever trained & at first your feeling perfect everything you do is going great ,,then over time you feel like your getting no better & frustrated with your work out thats when its time for a break the pro's like to get away from there normal life to make them more hungry for the challenge ahead .it takes some boxers longer to proper than others my sort of break is going on holiday for two weeks but that just me ,,
I'll have been off for over three weeks now: http://www.sports-training-adviser.com/reversibilityprinciple.html ^So I lost a lot of strength, and some skill?