The Official Training and Diet Programs of Professional Boxers Thread

[Orange Sneakers]

[Orange Sneakers]

Interestingly, Chris Eubanks has differ opinion to Roy Jones when it comes to training your stomach for bodyshots.

"Although I cannot deny sit-ups are very important for the abdomen - compulsory infact - I would only do 50 or 60 repititions, twice a day. My experience taught me that there was nothing more effective than taking actual body shots.

"Just as I learned in New York, you would leave your body exposed and tell your sparring partner to work on it with full-blooded punches to really harden your stomach. It was not about having hard abdominals, it was about immunity.

"You could do 1000 sit-ups a day, but if a fighter hits you correctly, you'd crumple. The only way to gain immunity was by taking hundreds of shots to the body. This was where sparring came in," Chris has been quoted as saying.

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[Orange Sneakers]

Also got this

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Roy did no upper body weights (until training for Ruiz) and says his physique was developed through hitting the heavy bag, push ups and pull ups. He did leg weights (after running) because he had bad knees but always low weight for high reps.

He says if he didn't play basketball he wouldn't be able to stay at the top in boxing, because he wasn't the best at basketball and needed that hungry attitude to carry over into boxing training.

And yes, I agree, Roy trained like a machine.

[Orange Sneakers]

Starting the Monday morning after a championship fight

At 6am I would do 50 sit-ups followed by either a 7.8 mile run, a 7.8 mile cycle, or beach running which was mixed in with sprinting up steep steps on the cliff tops. I would usually do 2 or 3 days of each.

Then at mid-afternoon the regime was as follows:
15 minutes of stretching,
15 minutes of shadow boxing - but not just using my fists; using my feet and body to develop agility,
3 to 6 rounds (of 3 minutes each) on the heavy bag - moving around it; playing with it,
3 rounds (of 4 minutes each) of either sharpening up my jab on my special small punchbag, sharpening up my reflexes on my swungball device, or pad work - I would direct Ronnie where I wanted him to place the pads as I had certain shots in mind I needed to perfect,
6 rounds of skipping (jump rope) - but with no breaks; I would skip straight through the 4-minute clock on the wall,
Then 50 sit-ups followed by 20 hits in the stomach with a medicine ball.

6 weeks out (from a fight), the morning conditioning remained the same but the gym regime changed to thus:
15 minutes of stretching,
30 minutes of shadow boxing,
3 to 12 rounds of full contact, hard-as-possible sparring,
Then skipping, speedball and sit-ups.

Finish 2 or 3 days out, but finish sparring 1 day out. If I trained 1 day more than you, I had a right to win.

- Chris Eubank

Two years before championship fights I would train first thing, around 5.30am for two hours. I needed no motivation. I would do stretching, shadow boxing, beach running, more stretching, push ups, sit ups and skipping.

Then start gym work at 2pm or 4pm depending on how I felt. It was no chore for me to train in this time, especially my first year and a half boxing in Britain. One was hungry and needed no alarm clock. One would find himself running to the gymnasium.

The routine in this time was 15 minutes of stretching, 15 minutes of shadow boxing, 8-10 rounds of sparring and 15 minutes of speedball. This would be at King Alfred Leisure Centre, Jack Pook gym or the Matchroom gym.

I would hit the speedball in the way I hit it in New York, I had my own way. If I had no sparring partners, I'd hit the heavy bag and take medicine ball hits. Sometimes Ronnie would take me on the pads and we worked on moves together, each offering ideas. But we clashed so I limited it.

That was seven days a week. I never took a day off training, not even if I was ill or injured, because that was being too much of a temperamental fighter whereas I was dedicated to being consistent. Never cancelled a fight. I'd sometimes be training hard at 5 or 6 in the evening despite having a professional fight the following evening.

Chris

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sweet thread

[DA1CATAS]

HE USED to Spar an estimated 200 rounds?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!

What the hell am I doing...How can i proclaim to be "THE BOXER" of the last era when I haven't even done close to 200 in one week.. not even 100...

Is anyone doing more than 50?

Way to make me feel like ****. .. now I have to increase my sparring rounds.

[ForemanCrossArm]

sparring is what makes champs. more than anything. the only time you get to practice the craft fully.