Just how good is army trainin for boxing??

[alza1988]

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[Naz-Fan]

Nigel Benn and Rock Marciano both learned how to box in the army so it must be pretty good.

[Alexis Vastine]

Army training is for military purposes. Boxing training is for the purpose of boxing. i doubt carrying a big fat burgen at 1mph for 10 miles will do you much good in the ring. Might be handy when terrorising people out of their crude oil though.

Squaddies fitness is overrated too. Apart from the fitness freaks (who do it by choice just like civvies), alot of them are bums. The PT sessions are a joke compared to a decent amateur boxing club.

[Oriachim]

The royal navy/royal marines and army both have very good boxing gyms and teams. The navy has like 10 people ranked top 10 in UK, army even better. The gyms prefer to teach people speed rather than raw power in a civii gym, ignore people who say army is for military only, as it takes sport very seriously. the army will get you fit to start boxing training, but obviously the stamina for punching etc will come from boxing training itself.

[Hagler★]

not very
my friend knocked out an army boxer last night in 10 secs last night

[Ryn0]

I imagine it's pretty good, I did some marines training while I was living in England. Nigel Benn came from the Army training.

[Am Star]

It all depends how you make it mate, during training there wasn't much selection of foods but once you get in your regiment, the food is generally decent, good choices, and you can take the healthy option, or the fried breakfast's every morning, it's down to you, but there's always that temptation.

The fitness all depends on your PTI(physical training instructor), sometimes you get enthusiastic lad's who like to 'beast' you and some aren't really bothered, again though, it's generally down to you, how you like to push yourself. Plus you can always do your own phys in your own time(when you're in regiment).

Finally, if your good enough you get to train with the army boxing team full time, walk around in tracksuits, no bull****, good life.

Hope that helps a bit mate.

[Oriachim]

not very
my friend knocked out an army boxer last night in 10 secs last night

Just like civvies, not all army boxers are decent. I imagine your friend could knock out civvies in 10 seconds.

[Hagler★]

but when ur an army boxer i was told ur focus was boxing training etc to lose in 10 secs to someone who has been boxing for a year and a half is pretty bad

[alza1988]