Tweet
Try going several hours without eating. Then try going half the day. The hunger pangs will set in. Then try an entire day. The floor begins to feel shaky and you feel unsteady on your feet. Then try two days or three days. Hallucinations begin to infiltrate your mind and it’s a struggle just to rise from a sitting position. Only then can you begin to imagine the pain of what Erik Morales has gone through while he strained to make his cadaverous body fit into a 130-pound suit that was bursting at the seams.
HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant once said of Erik Morales when he was fighting as a stick thin 122-pound super bantamweight that, "He has the bodyfat of a nail." Morales is still stick thin and he is again paring himself down in his preparations to face Manny Pacquiao in their rubber match this Saturday night in Las Vegas.
This time Morales says it will be easier because he has gone from the old school to the new school with his training regimen.
In an effort to get his escalating weight under control, Morales turned to Velocity Sports Performance in Los Angeles, which is owned by training guru Chuck Debus, who has placed more athletes on Olympic and World Championship Teams than any coach in history. "You are what you train", says Debus. "If you wanna’ be fast, you gotta’ train fast. If you wanna’ be quick you gotta’ train quick."
It’s Debus that Morales, at age 30, has come to in the twilight of his career for the scientifically designed training programs, state-of-the art training facilities and highly educated coaches. It’s a far cry from the downstairs gym in the Tijuana, Mexico family home where Morales cut his fistic teeth. [details]
HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant once said of Erik Morales when he was fighting as a stick thin 122-pound super bantamweight that, "He has the bodyfat of a nail." Morales is still stick thin and he is again paring himself down in his preparations to face Manny Pacquiao in their rubber match this Saturday night in Las Vegas.
This time Morales says it will be easier because he has gone from the old school to the new school with his training regimen.
In an effort to get his escalating weight under control, Morales turned to Velocity Sports Performance in Los Angeles, which is owned by training guru Chuck Debus, who has placed more athletes on Olympic and World Championship Teams than any coach in history. "You are what you train", says Debus. "If you wanna’ be fast, you gotta’ train fast. If you wanna’ be quick you gotta’ train quick."
It’s Debus that Morales, at age 30, has come to in the twilight of his career for the scientifically designed training programs, state-of-the art training facilities and highly educated coaches. It’s a far cry from the downstairs gym in the Tijuana, Mexico family home where Morales cut his fistic teeth. [details]
Comment