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Logic FAIL.
Of course if you dont have a long enough training camp that's never a good thing. But training for too long is 1 of the most overused scapegoats in boxing.
Its not so much the length of training camp but the intensity of training camp that burns a fighter out and causes him to peak early.
If you and I are from the same camp and we have fights on the same day. We start a 12 week camp together. For the first month I do some light muscle building to improve durabilty and learn proper technique for new weapons to add to the arsenal. Meanwhile you've been goin full bore the entire time and in sparring already with 8 weeks still left before the fight. Guess who's more likely to peak early even though we had the same length camp.
Same thing is going on with Pac and Cotto. Both are professionals and both are smart about their bodies. Cotto started his camp already but not really doin anything it but building up a good sweat just for the sake of doin so. Pac may start his camp later but go at his usual cutthroat pace and they will both be in peak condition by fight time. The only reason Roach wants Pacquiao to start training camp already is to ensure that Pac has the proper mechanics down for the combinations he has stored for his Cotto gameplan 1st before goin full speed.
Of course if you dont have a long enough training camp that's never a good thing. But training for too long is 1 of the most overused scapegoats in boxing.
Its not so much the length of training camp but the intensity of training camp that burns a fighter out and causes him to peak early.
If you and I are from the same camp and we have fights on the same day. We start a 12 week camp together. For the first month I do some light muscle building to improve durabilty and learn proper technique for new weapons to add to the arsenal. Meanwhile you've been goin full bore the entire time and in sparring already with 8 weeks still left before the fight. Guess who's more likely to peak early even though we had the same length camp.
Same thing is going on with Pac and Cotto. Both are professionals and both are smart about their bodies. Cotto started his camp already but not really doin anything it but building up a good sweat just for the sake of doin so. Pac may start his camp later but go at his usual cutthroat pace and they will both be in peak condition by fight time. The only reason Roach wants Pacquiao to start training camp already is to ensure that Pac has the proper mechanics down for the combinations he has stored for his Cotto gameplan 1st before goin full speed.
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