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One SHOULD NOT! train every day. Period. Even a Pro during his prefight training camp do have 1 day off. Otherwise their condition will degrade severely. While training hard one must avoid overtraining - ever heard of this? Problem is that we want everything NOW! Another problem is when overtraining will occur it will take much longer time off so our goals are even further away. Body and central nervous systems need time for RECOVERY. Funny thing is that your body is smurt enough to get its time for rest anyway. If sufficient recovery is not given than injuries will come into play - again you'll loose more time by the end of the road.
If you're starting than 3 - 4 times of boxing (full blown 90 - 120 min of intencity) and 3 or 4 road sessions per week will be good enough till your conditioning will allow for 5 times full boxing sessions per week. Also don't forget 1 or 2 interval training sessions HIIT (you don't want more) and 1 - 2 strength sessions (careful with this one as it may do more bad than good if you don't think what you're doing). Don't forget to eat properly for 6 - 8 times a day to refuel your body (quality supplements will help saving some time) and sleep for 8 hrs a day - minimum.
If one is going to school or has a full day job to attend than this regime will not let for any social life (work/study and hard training will eat all of your time).
Now those of you that are young and strong enough to disagree - are you really sure that overtraining is not about you? Than let's try this - I'll need only 30 min of your everyday time (including stretch/warm up and stretch/cool down time) - do four 3 minute rounds with 1 min rest in between. Each round will consist of 30 seconds barpees (for those who don't know - is there anybody?- stetch your legs to upper pushup position and bring them back knees to your chest, now jump as high as possible - your hands over your head reaching as high as you can) and 30 rounds of shadow boxing. You need to make at list 15 barpees and honest shadow boxing - throwing hard combinations - at list 30 power punches while moving, weaving and ducking. So 45 burpees and 90 punches per round.
Now do it every day for two weeks. Let me know how it feels by day 10-11th. You can pick desired number of rounds that will suit your current conditioning - beginner might want as little as 4 2minute rounds with 1 min rest. Those that clame working out everyday - if you do than you should be able to do 6 3minute rounds with 30 sec. rest in between. If you can not than rethink your training attitude - you seem to spend lots of time but gain little.
For those that are smart and understand how their body works and how much time it needs to recover - I don't recommend doing this HIIT sessions for more than 2 (3 max) times per week. Still it will do wonders to your conditioning (assuming that you're doing your 3 or better 5 boxing sessions per week) and your opponents will fear you
Cheers
Ted
If you're starting than 3 - 4 times of boxing (full blown 90 - 120 min of intencity) and 3 or 4 road sessions per week will be good enough till your conditioning will allow for 5 times full boxing sessions per week. Also don't forget 1 or 2 interval training sessions HIIT (you don't want more) and 1 - 2 strength sessions (careful with this one as it may do more bad than good if you don't think what you're doing). Don't forget to eat properly for 6 - 8 times a day to refuel your body (quality supplements will help saving some time) and sleep for 8 hrs a day - minimum.
If one is going to school or has a full day job to attend than this regime will not let for any social life (work/study and hard training will eat all of your time).
Now those of you that are young and strong enough to disagree - are you really sure that overtraining is not about you? Than let's try this - I'll need only 30 min of your everyday time (including stretch/warm up and stretch/cool down time) - do four 3 minute rounds with 1 min rest in between. Each round will consist of 30 seconds barpees (for those who don't know - is there anybody?- stetch your legs to upper pushup position and bring them back knees to your chest, now jump as high as possible - your hands over your head reaching as high as you can) and 30 rounds of shadow boxing. You need to make at list 15 barpees and honest shadow boxing - throwing hard combinations - at list 30 power punches while moving, weaving and ducking. So 45 burpees and 90 punches per round.
Now do it every day for two weeks. Let me know how it feels by day 10-11th. You can pick desired number of rounds that will suit your current conditioning - beginner might want as little as 4 2minute rounds with 1 min rest. Those that clame working out everyday - if you do than you should be able to do 6 3minute rounds with 30 sec. rest in between. If you can not than rethink your training attitude - you seem to spend lots of time but gain little.
For those that are smart and understand how their body works and how much time it needs to recover - I don't recommend doing this HIIT sessions for more than 2 (3 max) times per week. Still it will do wonders to your conditioning (assuming that you're doing your 3 or better 5 boxing sessions per week) and your opponents will fear you
Cheers
Ted
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