Do Boxers Train 8+ Hours A Day?

Sam Peter's day of training! (Yes he only does a single day of training during his camps): 1pm - Wake up, eats sausage, bacon, eggs, chips, beans with some fried bread 2pm - Back to bed 4pm - Wakes up again, eats a 15inch Pizza with extra cheese and all the trimmings - Finishes the other half of his pig that he left after breakfast. 6pm - Gets to the gym, runs for 10mins, rests... 6:30pm - Goes nuts and smacks a heavy bag around for 10mins, during that time he does 3 sets lasting 2mins, collapses and rests.... 7pm - Feels very proud of his days hard work and heads home.. 8pm -Donner kebab, large chips with extra chilly sauce...no salad. 9pm - Watches TV then bed ready for an amazing performance in his up coming fight... The funniest part is that you have his lazy waking up at 1pm..ROFL

Training 12 hours a day 7 days a week would be insane.

I'm thinking around 3-4 hours a day of hardcore workout. But that doesn't mean they go off and slack afterwards. Eating healthy, mainting proper sleep and weight. Stuff like that, I guess you can say it's like they are in training 24/7, but what you probably actually see, all adds up to a total of 3-4 hours.

thats not true 2-3 hours top... plus running

Manny fighters exaggerate the amount of time they train each day. For instance you hear all these MMA fighters say they train 6-8 hours a day and yet if you look at it, the actual time they spend on training is roughly 3-4 hours. Not matter how good a condition your body is in, the human body cannot take more than 5-6 hours of intense combat sport training (skill work, condition, strength, etc) 6 days a week. Now there may be some who train up to 6 hours on some days of the week, but not everyday. People who train over 6 hours per day (of actual training) are marathon runners and the like, and you see what happens to the body if you train like that. Muscle is catabolized away. You're not going to be a very good fighter with zero muscle (not as in body building muscle, but functional muscle tissue). Manny Pacquiao who is no doubt one of the hardest workers in any sport (especially combat sports) trains at Wild Card 3 hours per day. I think he does his strength and conditioning in that session too, maybe he does the beach workout on weekends, but still he spends around 3 hours a day at WildCard plus his morning work. Thats proably a little over 3.5 hours for one of the hardest workers in the game. Now that is ACTUAL training time, Manny trains almost nonstop once he is in WildCard. Even Amir Khan spends just around 2 hours training at WildCard. I dont' know how much stuff he does outside the gym, but that's what he did at WC.

I think the maximum any athlete trains is about 6 hours a day. Apparently Michael Phelps trains six hours a day six days a week. Everybody is human, and there's only so much you can do before you burn yourself out.

yes they train 8-12 but obviously not all at once in a row. Here as an example is prime Mike Tyson's train regimen: 5am: get up and go for a 3 mile jog 6am: come back home shower and go back to bed (great workout for those huge legs of his) 10am wake up: eat oatmeal 12pm: do ring work (10 rounds of sparring) 2pm: have another meal (steak and pasta with fruit juice drink) 4pm: more ring work and 60 mins on the exercise bike (again working those legs for endurance and power) 5pm: floor exercises: 2000 sit ups; 500-800 'dips'; 500 press ups and 500 shrugs with a 30kg barbell and 10 mins of neck exercises (working the biceps, triceps, chest, abs and shoulders) 7pm: steak and pasta meal again with fruit juice (orange i think it was). 8pm: another 30 minutes on the exercise bike 9:30 watch TV and then go to bed. as you can see it adds up to hours and hours but obviously not all in a row. A typical top notch prize fighter trains similarly to this in that they will do their road work in the morning and do 3-4 hours of gym work in the afternoon and often rest/eat and then come back and do more work at night which all in total will add up to 8-12 hours of training. No. There is not a single prizefighter alive that trains for 12 hours every day. It just doesn't work that way. You can't train that long for any length of time at all. Seriously, most guys will not train for any more time than six hours.

No, they don't train for eight hours a day. Physical training lasting eight hours every day will tear your body apart really quickly. No athlete can do such intense work for any length of time without completely and utterly wearing their body out. There is also in general one rest day a week which usually includes light running or very light sparring etc, but it's quite rare for fighters to do their whole routine every single day of the week. It's bad training, not good. A six hour daily routine is a lot. Even that is often considered too much. At the elite level your body needs as much rest as it does training and there is a fine line between peak preparation and over preparation. Eight hours is massive overkill and by fight time you wouldn't last three rounds because your body would be so used up already. Anyone that says they train eight hours every day is talking out their arse.

I usually train 2 to 2 and a half hours 5 days a week.

Bullshit, mayweather trained no more than 3 hours a day if you took away all the gaps/rests between training, no only would anything beyond be overtraining, you have to consider the wear and tear to joints and heart health.

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Sam Peter's day of training! (Yes he only does a single day of training during his camps): 1pm - Wake up, eats sausage, bacon, eggs, chips, beans with some fried bread 2pm - Back to bed 4pm - Wakes up again, eats a 15inch Pizza with extra cheese and all the trimmings - Finishes the other half of his pig that he left after breakfast. 6pm - Gets to the gym, runs for 10mins, rests... 6:30pm - Goes nuts and smacks a heavy bag around for 10mins, during that time he does 3 sets lasting 2mins, collapses and rests.... 7pm - Feels very proud of his days hard work and heads home.. 8pm -Donner kebab, large chips with extra chilly sauce...no salad. 9pm - Watches TV then bed ready for an amazing performance in his up coming fight... Hahaha. The funniest thing is he takes an hour to be proud of his days work hahaha.

let's say 6-8 max a day. But we're talking about 6-7 days a week that boxers train not 5 like your typical wallstreet day. I can get with that, and Roy Jones avatar guy is right about the length of runs.

Sam Peter's day of training! (Yes he only does a single day of training during his camps): 1pm - Wake up, eats sausage, bacon, eggs, chips, beans with some fried bread 2pm - Back to bed 4pm - Wakes up again, eats a 15inch Pizza with extra cheese and all the trimmings - Finishes the other half of his pig that he left after breakfast. 6pm - Gets to the gym, runs for 10mins, rests... 6:30pm - Goes nuts and smacks a heavy bag around for 10mins, during that time he does 3 sets lasting 2mins, collapses and rests.... 7pm - Feels very proud of his days hard work and heads home.. 8pm -Donner kebab, large chips with extra chilly sauce...no salad. 9pm - Watches TV then bed ready for an amazing performance in his up coming fight...

Normally its a lot more than a 3 mile run.

yes they train 8-12 but obviously not all at once in a row. Here as an example is prime Mike Tyson's train regimen: 5am: get up and go for a 3 mile jog 6am: come back home shower and go back to bed (great workout for those huge legs of his) 10am wake up: eat oatmeal 12pm: do ring work (10 rounds of sparring) 2pm: have another meal (steak and pasta with fruit juice drink) 4pm: more ring work and 60 mins on the exercise bike (again working those legs for endurance and power) 5pm: floor exercises: 2000 sit ups; 500-800 'dips'; 500 press ups and 500 shrugs with a 30kg barbell and 10 mins of neck exercises (working the biceps, triceps, chest, abs and shoulders) 7pm: steak and pasta meal again with fruit juice (orange i think it was). 8pm: another 30 minutes on the exercise bike 9:30 watch TV and then go to bed. as you can see it adds up to hours and hours but obviously not all in a row. A typical top notch prize fighter trains similarly to this in that they will do their road work in the morning and do 3-4 hours of gym work in the afternoon and often rest/eat and then come back and do more work at night which all in total will add up to 8-12 hours of training. Thats more like about 6 hrs- max a day. Never 12. A 3 mile run is 20 minutes, plus 10 for stretching.

Prison Break is indeed a great show my friend. I look forward to it's return this week.

Every trainer is different. I train fighters for everyday sort of gym time very differently than if they preparing for a fight. 8-10 hours a day is a lot but it can take some time when you calculate the time you run, warm up and then finally do your training routine Excellent point about if we are talking about training and staying in shape or preparing for a fight. I'm going to send you a question.

1 day off a week i believe is pretty common, just running

stretching and 30 minute run, cool down- 1hr warm up, calesthetics, more stretching-1 hr bag and mitt work sit ups-1 hr-1:30 in ring work-45 min to 1 hr. those are approximates from people at the gym down here (fight club in miami), professionals. Jermain is training there right now. my gym is different because its more of a dojo, boxing is a smaller part of it and there are no current professional fighters there. Every trainer is different. I train fighters for everyday sort of gym time very differently than if they preparing for a fight. 8-10 hours a day is a lot but it can take some time when you calculate the time you run, warm up and then finally do your training routine