Joe Frazier training techniques

**Light_Speed** · 08-13-2012, 10:54 PM

Reminds me of what ****m Richardson said about Hopkins once : "he's not a athlete, he can't play basketball, he can't play football, but he can whoop your ass!" Same thing applied to Frazier.

Funny thing is now a lot of top boxers incorporate these exercises into their training.

**Capaedia** · 08-13-2012, 10:56 PM

I wonder why they didn't have a fighting competition?

**ksan** · 08-13-2012, 11:01 PM

I edited the Weight Lifting video, those were his first tries... now I just put "part 2" of the weight lifting competition, worth seeing.

**ksan** · 08-13-2012, 11:05 PM

Originally posted by Light_Speed

Reminds me of what ****m Richardson said about Hopkins once : "he's not a athlete, he can't play basketball, he can't play football, but he can whoop your ass!" Same thing applied to Frazier.

Funny thing is now a lot of top boxers incorporate these exercises into their training.

Yeah, if the only thing someone would have watched of Joe was this, he would have tought that pole vaulter Bob Seagren, skiier Jean-Claude Killy and auto racer Peter Revson would put a beating on him.

But being an "athlete" in boxing is overrated.

Boxers are there own breed

**�ringer** · 08-13-2012, 11:06 PM

Nah. This is Joe Frazier training.

**LA_2_Vegas** · 08-13-2012, 11:08 PM

lol everytime I hear or read about new advanced training techniques and "athletes" in boxing I think of Joe and seeing this on espn Cheap Seats

**CubanGuyNYC** · 08-14-2012, 12:03 AM

I remember watching that episode of "The Superstars" years ago in a re-run. I recall having a conversation with a friend afterwards, noting how Frazier couldn't convincingly lift 160 lbs. At the time, I could easily press that kind of weight over my head. I was amazed that this ATG fighter couldn't do the same. Years later, as I learned more about weight-lifting, I came to understood that it's just as much about learned technique as it is about natural strength.

A guy like "Smokin'" Joe probably never lifted weights in his life, prior to "The Superstars." He and his trainers almost certainly subscribed to the old notion that lifting weights makes you "muscle-bound" and slow. You can see from Joe's form that he had no idea what to do in that lift. In actuality, Frazier probably possessed some good natural strength to raise the bar the way he did. What gets me is how naive Joe was not to at least prepare for the event. In fact, I can't help but smile when I watch those old shows and marvel at how far we've come in so many ways. Tomorrow's kids will someday laugh at how foolish we all seem today.

**Danny Gunz** · 08-14-2012, 12:08 AM

Say it aint so, Joe. Say it aint so.

He cant press 170 but he almost took Ali's soul. Funny how that works.

**CubanGuyNYC** · 08-14-2012, 12:11 AM

Originally posted by ksan

Yeah, if the only thing someone would have watched of Joe was this, he would have tought that pole vaulter Bob Seagren, skiier Jean-Claude Killy and auto racer Peter Revson would put a beating on him.

But being an "athlete" in boxing is overrated.

Boxers are there own breed

I don't agree with the bold. All things being equal, being athletic as a fighter is a definite advantage. Of course, if you're athletic and don't know how to fight, you're probably gonna get your ass kicked. lol

Joe Frazier training techniques