Kerry Kayes ...

[Nacho_Analstain]

I wanna hire this ****in' guy he seems good, Funny too ... Hes Ricky Hattons nutritionist and apparently hes ****ing good at it.





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[Flab]

He looks so bad fat.

[Jambo boy]

Surely a good nutritionalist would stop the fat **** balooning out between fights????

[Nacho_Analstain]

Surely a good nutritionalist would stop the fat **** balooning out between fights????

Its out of his hands when hes not training.

Which makes his job harder, Cause of the shape Rick is in when it IS in his hands.

[Jambo boy]

Its out of his hands when hes not training.

Which makes his job harder, Cause of the shape Rick is in when it IS in his hands.

Thing is he's losing 12 stone a year on average apparently, that isn't gonna do your stamina any good, how tall is he??

[Nacho_Analstain]

Thing is he's losing 12 stone a year on average apparently, that isn't gonna do your stamina any good, how tall is he??

5"6 i think.

I think he does a good job, Hes given a fat man and gets the fat man in shape.

[batista]

Here ya go fellas (from men and fitness ****zine):

Hatton prepared for the fight (Kostya) on a diet of seven high protein meals a day and four weight sessions a week, a regime little short of revolutionary in a sport where fighters usually starve themsleves to make weight and avoid heavy lifting because they think it will make them slow and stiff. The few that lift tend to use short, explosive movements that they beleive will cultivate power rather than the kind of slow, controlled bodybuilding movements that hatton employs so succesfully.

The old timers theory might have survived a little longer if Hatton had lost. Even if he knocked out Tsyzu, the defending champion rated by many as the best pound for pound fighter fight in the world, they could have argued his weight training would have slowed him down later int he fight. But the fact that the Mancunian wore his man down over 11 of the most exhausting and exhilirating rounds ever seen in a British ring, proved beyond doubt that his methods of training enhanced rather than inhibited his performance.

Hatton wasn't always enthusiastic about training with weights. In his early days he shared the fight games traditional scepticism towards dumbells and barbells and rarely touched neither. He paid little attention to sports nutrition, preferring to gorge on one or two big meals a day. But over the years his attitude has changed, largely becasue of the inluence of two men. One, his trainer Billy 'The Preacher' Graham, is well known in boxing circles; the other, bodybuilding guru Kerry Hayes, only got involved three years ago.

Graham had a brother called Joe who entered bodybuilding competitions and was constantly advocating the benefits of the lifestyle. "I realised through him taht bodybuilders kne wmore than anybody else about the human body" says Graham. They have diabolical discipline abd are fanatical about sports science. When i was a fighter int he 1970's Joe pointed out to me how much betetr I would be if I trained with weights. The coaches were almost dead against it and he always had to drag me screaming down the gym but it improved me no end as a fighter." Sadly, Joe died in an accident a few years later. But when he became a boxing trainer Billy Graham never forgot what his brother had taught him. "boxing has stayed the same for centuries but I've always been open to combining new ideas with the best of old to give my fighters the best chances of winning" says Graham. And strength training is a massive ingredient for success.

Graham began looking for someone like Joe who could prepare his fighters as thoroughly out of the ring as he does in it. He turned to kayes, one of his late brothers old bodybuilding friends. A karate enthsiast, kayes was seduced by bodybuilding in the 1980's and went on to win teh British over 40s championshp while guiding Britain's Dorian yates to the sports ultimate prize, the Mr Olympia title, the following decade. He now runs his own supplement company, CNP, and trains many of the countries leading bodybuilders at his Better Bodies gym in Denton ont he outskirts of Manchester.

Kayes followed boxing and was keen to get involved but at first it wasn't practical. "Billy wanted me to work with him for a good few years but the oppurtunity never arose because the boxers used to train 5 miles away" says Kayes. "I gave him that odd diet sheet but I didn't do any more tahn that because I wanted day to day involvement." When graham relocated his Phoenix camp to a room at the back of Kayes' gym in early 2003 the problem was overcome.

Hatton was already an emerging star with a perfect 30-0 record. His fights regulaarly sold out the 20,000-seat Manchestor arena, generating the kind of big fight atmosphere that didn't exist in British boxing since the days of Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank. Hatton's aggressive style in the ring and likeable personality out of the ring made him the undisputed peoples champion. But while the locals loved him his WBU world title held currency in America. He craved a fight with Australian Tsyzu, the undisputed 10-stone king, whose scalp everyone wanted. When Kayes came on board hatton was preparing to take on the ageing but classy Vince Phillips in a contest that could take him one step closer to Tsyzu. "He had never done any seriosu weight training," said Kayes. "There was an old bench with a bar at his previous gym and he would do a few exercises-fast, as boxers do, but that was it. "Billy asked me to do some weights with him and because Ricky had been with Billy since day one he had total trust in him." But with fight night fast approaching, Kayes input at first was minimal. "I wasn't ****** enough to walk in and say 'everything you are doing with nutrition is wrong'." he says. "I changed things 40 per cent for his first fight, then another 50 per cent for his next fight so little by little I gained his trust".

RICKY HATTON's WEIGHT TRAINING ROUTINE
MONDAY-LEGS AND CALVES
Leg Extensions 3x10
Partal leg Presses 4x10
Lying Leg Presses 1x10
Seated calf raises 3x8
Standing Calf raises 3x8

TUESDAY-CHEST AND BICEPS
Pec Deck 3x10
Seated Becnh Presses 3x10
Lying Bench Presses 1x10
Lying Bench Presses (half movemnt) 1x10
DumbelL curls 3x10

THURSDAY-BACK AND HAMSTRINGS
Close grip pulldowns to front 3x10
Cable Rows 2x10
Shrugs 2x10
Hamstring curls 3x10
Stiff-legged deadlifts 1x10

FRIDAY-SHOUDLERS AND TRICEPS
Lateral raises 3x10
Rear lateral raises 3x10
Shoulder presses 3x10
Close grip presses 3x10
Smith machine presses from waist 3x10


RICKY HATTON'S TRAINING CAMP DIET
Meal 1: Pro GF
Meal 2: Porrige and four eggs (one yold) and Pre Peptide
Train
Meal 3: Pro-Recover
Meal 4: Chicken rice and Vegetables
Meal 5: Fish and vegetables
Run six miles
Meal 6: Pro-recover
Meal 7: Chicken and Vegetables



Hatton gave one of his best performances to date against Phillips and was quick to praise Kayes afterwards, saying it wa sthe fittest he'd felt and the easiest he had made the weight. but the hard gym sessions were only just beggining. In his first leg workouts under Kayes, hatton could partial leg press six 25kg plates and on a 45 degree machine; in his last workout before the Tsyzu fight he leg presses 20x25 plates. "He only does half the movement because fighters don't need to fully exten their legs all the way but nonetheless it is still an astonishing amount of weight, " says Kayes. "He was pressing over half a ton and did 10 reps at a bodyweight of 10 stone and 4 pounds." Kayes is big on leg training for boxers. "If I had one bodypart I could train on a boxer it would be quads becasue that is wer ethe power comes from if you look at the mechanics of a punch". he says.

Hattons training has evolved to the point where he now lifts and eats almost liek a bodybuilder. He weight trains every Monday, tuesday, thursday and friday. He warms up with a relatively light weight before moving on to his work sets where he lifts as heavy as he can manage for 3 sets of controlled 10 repetitions. Kayes isn't convinced by that argument that lifting helps you punch faster. "There is only one reason to lift weights and that is to get stronger. There is only one way to get stronger and that is to warm up, do a medium set, an 80% maiximum and go to failure. You can't reinvent the wheel. Also, explosive movements increase the chances of injury and that is something I'm terrified of".

Risk of injury and the light-welterweight weight limit inhibit Hatton's training slightly and prevent him from bulking up too much. "I can't give him excess calories because he has to weigh in at 10 stone" says Kayes. We can only give him enough food to keep his ****bolism going and to feed his muscles." He prefers machines to free weights to avoid injuries and doesn't include high-risk squatting on leg days. "What it boils down too is that Ricky doesn't quite do the same volume of training or take as much nutrition as a bodybuilder and we sometimes use shorter movements taht work better for boxers. Apart from that it's very similiar," says Kayes.

Kayes has overseen Hatton's nutrition and weights sessions for eight fights and estimates his strength has increased 10-15% every time. Everyone who saw him in the run-up to the Tsyzu fight was amazed by the muscularity that was evident even on his ghost white frame. He had what is known as bodybuilding circles on his back- where the muscles were so highly developed and lean that they fanned out from his spine across both sides of his back in the shape of a christmas tree.

Hatton went into camp for the Tsyzu fight 14 weeks out instead of the normal 12 and things went so well he had to ease up towards the end to make sure he didn't overcook his preparation. "From a mental point of view the whole camp was so much more excited about it," says Kayes. "He was so far in advance I didn't want him too lose too much weight. He was having four flapjacks a day and in his last week before the fight I told him he could have a chinese meal."

[batista]

Besides lifting weights, Hatton was training ferociously on his fitness and skills with graham. The aspect of hsi training, which Muscle and fitness profiled in 2003, consists of three main elements: bar jumping, sparring and body bag workouts. Hatton is expected to vault the bar, which is four feet high and made of iron, 42 times in 1 minute. When he finishes he leaps into the ring to pound the body bag, a huge leather waistcoat with eight inches of foam padding worn by Graham, for another minute, which enables Hatton to combine punching and movement in a way traditional heavybag workouts don't. " It's like punching a pillow" says hatton. "An absolute killer". After that he jumps on the bar foranother minute by the end of which, he's trained for three mintes of non-stop-the length a round lasts in boxing.

He rest for a minute, does three minutes of sparring then rests for another minute. Then he returns to the body bag and the bar except that because he trained for two of the three minutes on the bar last time, this time he trains for two of the three minutes on the bag. So it goes on. He increase sthe number of rounds as his fitness levels increase closer to the figh, aiming to finsh with one gruelling 15-round session. "This way i have three in the bag" says Hatton. He has three hard ring days on Monday Wendnesday and Friday with trainer Billy Graham and two easy days on tuesday and Thursday. "I'm big on recovery' says graham. "The heart is a muscle. If you work it to the extreme every day it never gets a chance to recover." He also runs six miles a night most nights of the week. WWith teh entire camp in overdrive for the Tsyzu fight, Hatton weighed in at 4:00pm on Friday at 139lbs. Tsyzu was slightly over it and had to shed some ounces. By the following morning, hatton weighted 149lbs. By the time he steppd into the ring in the early hours of sunday morning, the time staged to suit American TV audiences, he was up to 156 pounds. "We filled himw ith fluids and Glycogen" sayes Kayes. What followed was one of the most coppelling world title fights in the UK. It was relentless and brutal, swinging one way to another until Tsyzu, behind on points, failed to come out for the final round.

Although Hatton's victory has forced some in the boxing fraternity to rethink their attitude towards bodybuilding, kayes is still scathing obove the level of ignorance. "No other fighters in England weigt train properly" says Kayes. "The reason they don't do it is becaus etheyd on't have a progressive trainer like Billy Graham. Graham is so convinced of the benefits that he won't train anyone who refuses to do weights. All the ffighters in the phoenix camp camp, which includes Middle weight prospects Paul Smith and Pat Maxwell, super featherweights Steve Ball and Michael Gomez, light middleweight Matthew Macklin and Ricky's brother Matthew, weight train under Kayes' supervision.

"Kerry takes weight off my mind because of the way he trains them and helps them make weight" says Graham. "Some other fighters trainw ith weights but what tehy do is absolutely pathetic". I think the penny is dropping slowly. With boxing everything is old fashioned". Once the blinkers come off, the fighters like the results. "Weight training becomes seductive to the fighter because they see themselves getting more muscular," says Graham. "Sometimes they have to take the word that they are improving but with weight training they can see the difference."

The longer others stay in the dark the easier it will be for Hatton to retain his world title. The outlook has never been brighter for the Hitmanm whose promoter Frank Warren, has a deal with ITV that has brought boxing back to the masses. Now oppurtunities await Hatton and his sport. Perhaps they finally beckon, too, for modern training methods "People have to start taking weight trainign more seriously now" says Graham. M@F

[batista]

Take it with a grain of salt but interesting none the less. BTW, some dude typed it out on another website so it is riddled with spelling mistakes.