First time Cotto doesn't gas in the championship rounds

[lopetego]

Did anyone notice this?

He clearly started to get a bit tired around round 8, but not the usual ¨gassed af Cotto who is prone to get KO'd even by featherfisted Mayweather¨

and Cotto moved more than ever in this match, it's like he was trying to spiritually channel Erislandy Lara there, he rarely ever stopped bouncing around and sticking and moving

Cotto was in terrific shape last night. more stamina than ever

and still lost, so extra props to the ginger warrior

[NEETzsche]

it was more a case of his opponent gassing right alongside him

[JmH Reborn]

Better and more efficient training

Against Floyd and Trout, which I think were some of his worst gassing moments; Diaz had all these weird training techniques shown on 24/7 plus going to big bear and leaving early. I think Diaz's training methods left alot to be desired. MacMillan has done a great job w/ Cotto and he should get alot of credit

[Pocket Dogs!]

It's because of Gavin MacMillan, his strength and conditioning coach. He says that roadwork is absolutely ineffective because it'll hurt your legs so he has his clients just do the spinning cycle.

http://ucnlive.com/miguel-cotto-spins-away/

"In fact, for the last three camps with trainer Freddie Roach and Gavin MacMillan, who is in charge of his strength and conditioning, Cotto has done a large bulk of his conditioning on the spinning cycle.

Yeah, Ray Arcel is probably spinning in his grave right about now.

That said, according to MacMillan – who has trained a multitude of world-class athletes – this is a much more efficient way of conditioning an athlete. More importantly, it saves them the wear and tear that running long distances brings to a body that is already being taxed from cutting weight and training in the gym on a daily basis.

"They’re going to be fresher, stronger, quicker,” explained MacMillan a couple of weeks ago at the Wild Card Boxing Club, while Cotto was conducting his media day. “Running at any age is something that beats up your legs. You can use it when you’re younger, try to develop your cardiovascular base and you’ll recover from it fairly well. But as you get older, the pounding of the pavement and stuff, it just causes too many problems with the back and legs and everything."

“Now if they were doing short sprints and that’s what they were focusing on, then there would be a benefit to it. But long distance runs – especially in an eight-week camp – you couldn’t even have time to develop a cardiovascular base from that anyways. So what we do is more uptempo things on the bike where we change the intervals. We change the distance and we really push his anaerobic threshold because that’s what fighting is. That, combined with a lot of footwork drills in short space, gets him ready.”

[elfag]

It was better than I thought it would be but yes he did start gassing in the 8th, canelo put a beating on him that round, then the last few rounds he got back to moving again and I noticed canelo getting tired those rounds, which doesnt look good for canelo because he should still be fresh considering he dont bounce around at all.

[TRTboy]

Because canelo never imposed his size and strength and didn't put any pressure. Canelo needs new trainers who can tell him to not throw everything in each shot or canelo just doesn't have a high fight IQ.

[radioraheem]

It's because of Gavin MacMillan, his strength and conditioning coach. He says that roadwork is absolutely ineffective because it'll hurt your legs so he has his clients just do the spinning cycle.

http://ucnlive.com/miguel-cotto-spins-away/

"In fact, for the last three camps with trainer Freddie Roach and Gavin MacMillan, who is in charge of his strength and conditioning, Cotto has done a large bulk of his conditioning on the spinning cycle.

Yeah, Ray Arcel is probably spinning in his grave right about now.

That said, according to MacMillan – who has trained a multitude of world-class athletes – this is a much more efficient way of conditioning an athlete. More importantly, it saves them the wear and tear that running long distances brings to a body that is already being taxed from cutting weight and training in the gym on a daily basis.

"They’re going to be fresher, stronger, quicker,” explained MacMillan a couple of weeks ago at the Wild Card Boxing Club, while Cotto was conducting his media day. “Running at any age is something that beats up your legs. You can use it when you’re younger, try to develop your cardiovascular base and you’ll recover from it fairly well. But as you get older, the pounding of the pavement and stuff, it just causes too many problems with the back and legs and everything."

“Now if they were doing short sprints and that’s what they were focusing on, then there would be a benefit to it. But long distance runs – especially in an eight-week camp – you couldn’t even have time to develop a cardiovascular base from that anyways. So what we do is more uptempo things on the bike where we change the intervals. We change the distance and we really push his anaerobic threshold because that’s what fighting is. That, combined with a lot of footwork drills in short space, gets him ready.”

Very interesting, thanks for the post. Never heard much of that stuff.

[lopetego]

It's because of Gavin MacMillan, his strength and conditioning coach. He says that roadwork is absolutely ineffective because it'll hurt your legs so he has his clients just do the spinning cycle.

http://ucnlive.com/miguel-cotto-spins-away/

"In fact, for the last three camps with trainer Freddie Roach and Gavin MacMillan, who is in charge of his strength and conditioning, Cotto has done a large bulk of his conditioning on the spinning cycle.

Yeah, Ray Arcel is probably spinning in his grave right about now.

That said, according to MacMillan – who has trained a multitude of world-class athletes – this is a much more efficient way of conditioning an athlete. More importantly, it saves them the wear and tear that running long distances brings to a body that is already being taxed from cutting weight and training in the gym on a daily basis.

"They’re going to be fresher, stronger, quicker,” explained MacMillan a couple of weeks ago at the Wild Card Boxing Club, while Cotto was conducting his media day. “Running at any age is something that beats up your legs. You can use it when you’re younger, try to develop your cardiovascular base and you’ll recover from it fairly well. But as you get older, the pounding of the pavement and stuff, it just causes too many problems with the back and legs and everything."

“Now if they were doing short sprints and that’s what they were focusing on, then there would be a benefit to it. But long distance runs – especially in an eight-week camp – you couldn’t even have time to develop a cardiovascular base from that anyways. So what we do is more uptempo things on the bike where we change the intervals. We change the distance and we really push his anaerobic threshold because that’s what fighting is. That, combined with a lot of footwork drills in short space, gets him ready.”

I wish there were more trainers like McMillan. I've always ****ing hated roadwork, yet most trainers think that ****'s neccesary and unavoidable

[AddiX]

Cotto does usually gas, but Canelo is lazy ass fighter in the ring, who is scared to gas, so never steps on the pedal.

Its why, IMO, none of Canelos best wins are dominating performances.

[lazy]

They both got tired in the late rounds but not as bad as both of them used to.