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Pacman's and Amir Khan's strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza Talks about both
OI: You are known as a great strength and conditioning coach, Alex. I hate to do some comparison with the Wild Card boxers, but how would you rate Manny in terms of physical conditioning vis-à-vis Amir Khan?
AA: Amir is well-conditioned but Manny is on a different level. Amir is 22 years old, a phenomenal and elite athlete. Sometimes we bring in Martirosyan to run and train with him, they are great athletes.
But Manny at 31 years old is still the fastest, the strongest. Probably an athlete that I’ve never ever experienced coaching in my life, even read about. It would be wonderful to be involved in something like checking his lung capacity and all these scientific studies that we could do because you can publish such things about an athlete – his stamina and all the things he does.
Hopefully in the next 5 years, developing Amir and Vanes may possibly be similar to Manny but a guy like Manny Pacquiao comes around once in a lifetime, man. He may be from a different planet, I dunno (smiles).
link (just copy paste): http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/292069
AA: Amir is well-conditioned but Manny is on a different level. Amir is 22 years old, a phenomenal and elite athlete. Sometimes we bring in Martirosyan to run and train with him, they are great athletes.
But Manny at 31 years old is still the fastest, the strongest. Probably an athlete that I’ve never ever experienced coaching in my life, even read about. It would be wonderful to be involved in something like checking his lung capacity and all these scientific studies that we could do because you can publish such things about an athlete – his stamina and all the things he does.
Hopefully in the next 5 years, developing Amir and Vanes may possibly be similar to Manny but a guy like Manny Pacquiao comes around once in a lifetime, man. He may be from a different planet, I dunno (smiles).
link (just copy paste): http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/292069
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