Do Boxers Train 8+ Hours A Day?

[ScofieldBurrows]

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

[Squabbles94806]

They train 8-12 hours throughout the day. Not 12 hours str8. They go for runs, do gym work, spar, work on techniques, conditioning and strengthing, more running...all that *****, all in a day's work. At least the grand prizefighters train like that.

There's a good book on boxing training. It's called something like the training routines of prizefights or something like that. It's pretty good, It shows the training schedule of certain fighters preparing. Says what their favorite exercises are, their daily routines...all that stuff.

[Fulcrum29]

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.

[Walt Liquor]

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.

[Zerwas1]

Normally its a lot more than a 3 mile run.

[Fulcrum29]

Thats more like about 6 hrs- max a day. Never 12. A 3 mile run is 20 minutes, plus 10 for stretching.

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.

[cottothechamp]

do they get 1 day off? and damn that schedule mike tyson is on shows why hes body was so schizzled. 2000 Sit up? i have trouble doing 100.

[Fulcrum29]

do they get 1 day off? and damn that schedule mike tyson is on shows why hes body was so schizzled. 2000 Sit up? i have trouble doing 100.

not 2000 in a row obviously. Was something around sets of 200 each at a time give or take.

[Sage84]

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...

[Fulcrum29]

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...

that was ****in funny as ****.