marciano would run 5-6 every day without missing a day and walk up to 10 miles in the evening in the run up to a fight he would run 10 miles a day and in the last few weeks he would run 12-15 miles.
he would do loads of body weight exersizes and hit a 150 kg(300 pound) heavy bag for 1/2 an hour to 1 hour with out a break.
he had a ball on string above his bed and he would hit it to help his co ordanation he also used speed bags and other old training methods.

it was his trainer who invented punch pads by sewing some foam into a pair of gloves and marciano would punch them because he had bad acuracy.
he would tie some string to his feet linking them together while he spared or hit the bags to give him balance.

it was his trainer who invented punch pads by sewing some foam into a pair of gloves and marciano would punch them because he had bad acuracy.
he would tie some string to his feet linking them together while he spared or hit the bags to give him balance.

sounds dope man!

am thinking about using string to increase my balance, I be out of balance, especially when am backing out in sparring.

green k! :luvbed:

here are the routines of some hard hitters
jake lamotta
skipping
10x3 heavy bag or pads and body bag
10 min body bag
10 min skipping
he would do 100 pressups and 100 situps befor running on the streets and would swap the heavy bag for sparing when he could find sparing partners.
george foreman
35-45 min heavy bag
10 min skipping
100 situps
3x10 close grip pushups
3 mile run in the evening
sparing at the weekend

here are the routines of some hard hitters
jake lamotta
skipping
10x3 heavy bag or pads and body bag
10 min body bag
10 min skipping
he would do 100 pressups and 100 situps befor running on the streets and would swap the heavy bag for sparing when he could find sparing partners.
george foreman
35-45 min heavy bag
10 min skipping
100 situps
3x10 close grip pushups
3 mile run in the evening
sparing at the weekend


wow.

you know what I noticed?

that most of these heavy hitters hit the HeavyBag for a long time, I know its suppose to develop power, but I wonder if it develops more power if you do it for longer?

Jake could almost never find sparring partners, He was far too agressive and always took it too far. His partners hated sparring with him. also you left out the part about shadow boxing in a sauna because he could never make weight. he always put on tons of weight between fights then had to bust his ass to get it back off. Lamotta wasnt specifically known for being a "hard puncher" sure , he punched hard but people only really talked about his heart and chin. The guy had a HUGE melon and he was smart too, Just sayin, he aint no Shavers or something like that.

lamotta's style is alot like rocky balboa's from the films
he just takes hit again and again and still comes back for more thats his style he takes 2 to land 1.
also he boxed kids from his street when he was young and people would throw money into the ring and he would gather it up after and use it to pay bills no wonder he was so tough.

funny his brain still works decently well compared to other boxers who prob didnt get quite as much as he did

Just be careful with the closed grip pushups.. thats how Big George messed up his hands.

how come George Foreman hardly did any training, i mean what 2-3 hours a day??? and he still whooped a lot of asses lol. what do u guys think it is genetic?

foreman also pulled cars along and lifted weights.

in Foremans comeback he had a solid routine..he was running 20 KM a day at one point..in his youth it was mostly bag work and sparring, he didn't have great stamina.

what is forgotten here is that marciano used running up and down hills to work his leg strength.

he wouldnt just do this you may think.

he would run up a steep hill, then back down but tread down the hill going backwards.

foreman also pulled cars along and lifted weights.

Yea hes got his son pulling cars too now, he showed me pictures of it. He doesn't lift weights though.