Great Boxing Workout!

[batista]

Study's have proven that long distance running is not applicable to boxing, things like tabata intervals are much more beneficial to the sport and at increasing your metabolism.

No, there are studies that prove everything these dayz. Science is defined as the state of knowing. For long distance running to have lasted from the beggining of time, shows it it is not as bad as many would like you too believe. Champions have been using it for centuries and if it hindered anything, then it would have been dropped long ago.

And about increasing your metabolism, EPOC is way overrated. And in many cases, Post exercise calorie expenditure is not as great as people would like too think.

[Salty]

I didn't say cut it out comletely, just there are better alternatives for improving your anaerobic conditioning than running 6 miles, it's a big chunk of time wasted each day when you could have been practising technique, etc.

Do you know what tabata intervals even are? It lasts 4 mins and gets you more exhausted than a 6 mile run. Long distance running also causes the breakdown of muscle tissue, which is why you see marathon runners built like twigs. You train for what your competing in, boxing is a anaerobic sport so whats the point running 40 miles a week?

Also your point about champions using for centuries is flawed, hunters used spears for centuries too, now they use more efficient methods aka a gun. The world evolves and so should your training.

[batista]

[QUOTE=Salty;3349405]

Do you know what tabata intervals even are? It lasts 4 mins and gets you more exhausted than a 6 mile run. Long distance running also causes the breakdown of muscle tissue, which is why you see marathon runners built like twigs. You train for what your competing in, boxing is a anaerobic sport so whats the point running 40 miles a week?

Am marathon training regime has way more volume then a 1-6 mile run daily. Most marathon runners run upwards of 100 miles a week. And yes, I know what Tabata Intervals are. I inculde them occasionally in my training program but believe they don't hold much value for my goals. As for muscle loss, that is completely false.

Also your point about champions using for centuries is flawed, hunters used spears for centuries too, now they use more efficient methods aka a gun. The world evolves and so should your training.

That passage I wrote was out of one of Ross Enamaits books. Do you know who that is? Except he was referring to bodyweight squats rather then distance running. Same principles, however. And to what you wrote, this boxer said it best:

And it's not "a bunch of guys from the past"...it's the vast majority of current Fighters (specifically successful ones), among other Athletes of various Sports across the entire Globe. They run in South America, they run in Canada, they run in Europe a damn sight more than we do here, they run ridiculous amounts in Africa, they run in Asia, and I'm talking specifically about Combat Athletes.

There could be exceptions to the rules, but exceptions hardly negate existences of rules. You don't change a World perspective by boasting open-mindedness and stating a couple of references to individuals who the mold doesn't apply to. That's just now how it works.

Look at the current fighters who successfully incorporate long distance running (and mostly) into their training regime. Floyd Mayweather, Kelly Pavlik, Pacman, Ricky Hatton, Jermain Taylor, Oscar De La Hoya, Michael Katsidis, Winky Wright, Zab Judah, Shane Mosley, Miguel Cotto etc etc. Champions run, run and run and long distance running has been proven countless times to be an efficient conditioning method for boxing, through these champions.

[aussieboxer2320]

ffs interval training and long distance running should both be included in your routine ok?

[Salty]

I didn't say cut it out comletely

The guy posting his "great boxing workout" didn't mention intervals or tabata which are just as important, and yes I do know who he is the guy is ripped to shreds and knows what hes talking about.

[Fidayin]

[QUOTE=batista;3349689]

As for muscle loss, that is completely false.

it's not false, long distance running causes muscle loss. don't say things are false when u don't have knowledge about it.

[branagan]

that work out makes me laugh

[batista]

[QUOTE=Fidayin;3349784]

it's not false, long distance running causes muscle loss. don't say things are false when u don't have knowledge about it.

proof? And funny how you say I have no knowledge about it, when you don't even back up your statement.

[The Victim]

wat i do is run up and down 10 flights of stairs 10 times. it works out ur legs and gives crazy endurance. up and down= one 'rep'

[Salty]

Yeah stair running is really good, we have one long ass staircase in WA called jacobs ladder, you know you've done a workout after that.