is diet really important???

Diet is very important. You must be able to rehydrate by eating the same food that helped you lose weight. Some go with meat and greenery, and then fill back up with fluids and just eat anything. Jones Toney is the perfect example of two guys, same weight. One guy in shape, the other dehydrated.

eating like crap and training like crazy, yea, if you really push yourself, in those last moments you'd feel your heavy heartbeat, breathing will hurt like a *****, aswell as more "burn" while excercising, start eating healthy you'll feel very clear, or clean so to speak, whereas eat crap and you're body will start choking on sht you can pass through that "choking" feeling by doing alot of cardio often, but it'll shave years off your career

Is this Chavez Jr posting? <_< No, but seriouly. Putting in the work is obviously important, but diet might be even more important..sure, you can train and be fine..but you won't feel as good, or perform as well as a guy feeding his body correctly imo. You need to replenish your body with what it's losing when you work out in something as demanding as boxing. It helps the recovery of your body and that obviously helps put in the hard work. There's that saying that form generally follows function. You're not trying to body build, but eating right and putting in work generally makes you look like how you'll perform...genes aside. I'm sure a world class athlete with less than stellar ethic/eating habits can get away with it for a bit, but it catches up. Bear in mind though that had the work ethic been better, they too might have been. People make the mistake of thinking diet = weight loss. It doesn't

Lol @ saying Phelps eats like us... I don't think you can even grasp how much he digests each day. I don't know what you're trying to get at? Phelps has a strict and healthy diet. He's not eating like your average Joe.

thanks for the responses!

if you train hard enough, does it really matter what u put in your body look at swimmer michael phelps, dude eats like some of us... dont talk metabolism, he trains real hard ok, in boxing u gotta get your weight down but why not just fight at your natural weight as well as go hard instead of killing your self to make weight then rehydrating like a dinosaur pac n may dont kill themselves to make weight james toney ate comfortably, successful in higher weights. yes ofcourse he was fleshy but boxing is about fitness not physique put it this way....... you can have the best engine money can buy in your car..... put in the best fuel you can, and the engine will run like a champ, put in garbage fuel, and that engine will breakdown and not perform at its best.... your body is the same way when you are on the level of a pro athlete

if you train hard enough, does it really matter what u put in your body look at swimmer michael phelps, dude eats like some of us... dont talk metabolism, he trains real hard ok, in boxing u gotta get your weight down but why not just fight at your natural weight as well as go hard instead of killing your self to make weight then rehydrating like a dinosaur pac n may dont kill themselves to make weight james toney ate comfortably, successful in higher weights. yes ofcourse he was fleshy but boxing is about fitness not physique double post.....see below

Sounds like you have your own thoughts on the topic, and that you are looking for validation for your eating habits, moreso than really being interested in nutrition. Personally I think a strong dedication to dieting, and fitness are part of the dedication of being an athlete...building a strong body and mind, that will last longer...you CAN do it the other way...but do you really want to experiment with your body?...for it to possibly fail when you need it most?...

You have to understand, athletes train their asses off and make sacrifices for the tiniest improvements. A runner will do crazy things to beat their record by a few seconds. I'm not saying a professional boxer requires eating healthy. They can eat whatever they want (as long as they make the weight). But if their opponent is eating healthy on top of training hard, then mentally, a fighter is going to want to get on his level. It's that mental reassurance that he did everything that he could do to be at his best. While a lot of fighters...matter fact, we'll say humans. While a lot humans get fatter as they get older, Hopkins is still in great shape and able to compete at the championship level. A lot of that has to do with dieting.

Ultimately you can get into good shape without having the greatest diet in the world, if you train like a madman, but boxing is a sport of extremely fine margins and even if diet only makes a tiny difference it's worth it.

of course it is, like 50%

once in awhile but if you eat mc donalds 3x a day and try to train you will feel how much it depletes your abilities

There is an old saying that you could train Muhammad Ali on bread and he would still win . Moral is dont look at the freaks of nature like Phelps look at the average , and the average need every edge they can get including nutrition , you body has demands , the more you work it the more demands it has , you need to meet those demands if you want the best out of it , you cannot get a F1 running correct on low octane fuel , you cant compete with sporting animals like Greyhounds and Racehorses with poor nutrition and they have no clue of placebo so they dont lie . Can you eat junk food , yes its beneficial in moderation on top of real performance nutrition because it is calorie dense and gives a mental boost like a reward to the athlete . yes, the last paragraph, bingo

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There is an old saying that you could train Muhammad Ali on bread and he would still win . Moral is dont look at the freaks of nature like Phelps look at the average , and the average need every edge they can get including nutrition , your body has demands , the more you work it the more demands it has , you need to meet those demands if you want the best out of it , you cannot get a F1 running correct on low octane fuel , you cant compete with sporting animals like Greyhounds and Racehorses with poor nutrition and they have no clue of placebo so they dont lie . Can you eat junk food , yes its beneficial in moderation on top of real performance nutrition because it is calorie dense and gives a mental boost like a reward to the athlete .

Don't be FOOLED because you see Michael Phelps take in a lot of Calories or you see Mayweather eating junk food on HBO 24/7, those guys work out like no other...they can eat junk because they actually go out and BURN THOSE CALORIES right after eating that junk

if you train hard enough, does it really matter what u put in your body look at swimmer michael phelps, dude eats like some of us... dont talk metabolism, he trains real hard ok, in boxing u gotta get your weight down but why not just fight at your natural weight as well as go hard instead of killing your self to make weight then rehydrating like a dinosaur pac n may dont kill themselves to make weight james toney ate comfortably, successful in higher weights. yes ofcourse he was fleshy but boxing is about fitness not physique Phelps burns like 15,000 calories a day. You need fuel for the engine

We already have..you claim to have over 80 Amateur fights so why do you post stuff like this man? because i have had much success in doing stuff like this as well as many others fighters coming up with me we just go hard everyday, train 20 day straight some times, week off here n there.. i dont need to prove anything to nobody, just would like to know everybody elses opinion of training, diet.. something new to the game, instead of the old school stuff. things are changing, remember when fighters used to run with army boots at 4am?? yeah, pointless.. sprint training is the new sh1t

can people give me an insightful reply We already have..you claim to have over 80 Amateur fights so why do you post stuff like this man?

im not saying just munch on a load of junk but small amounts, cookies, pizza etc... why not