Do Boxers Train 8+ Hours A Day?

[Walt Liquor]

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.

[ScofieldBurrows]

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.

[DiLLiNGER]

thats what mas oyama did for two years when he went to the mountains train 15 hours a day..the founder of kyokushinkai karate..he beat over 40 bulls bare handed.

[FLYBOY]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[billionaire]

haha no 8+ hours a day will leave you overtrained.........usually 4-6 hours depending on if they add in weightlifting and length of runs......a high intensity routine is probably more stressful than what most regular people go thru in a week....quality over quantity

[TRANSWARP]

Bull****, 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.

[Verstyle]

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

[BennyST]

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.

[BennyST]

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.

[paul750]

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.