How Vital do you feel roadwork/running is in boxing?

[Oriachim]

juan diaz dosent run!

no he uses a stepper which is still technically some form of running

[sukhenkoy]

no he uses a stepper which is still technically some form of running

Juan Diaz swims.

[HughJass]

do your your road work its vital.i go on a 5 mile run but i do it in 100 m sprints,it tires you much more .

[Phenomkidd]

do your your road work its vital.i go on a 5 mile run but i do it in 100 m sprints,it tires you much more .

You do 20 100m sprints? How long of a rest do you take in between?

[keepthemhandsup]

juan diaz dosent run!

and you see his punches don't got any pop to em becazuse he don't run alot. your punching power come from the legs.

[fraidycat]

You will face fighters who are technically more skilled than you.

You will face fighters who hit harder than you.

You will face fighters who are smarter than you.

You will face fighters who have more experienced coaches and better cornermen.

Eventually, you will meet a fighter who is all of the above. And when this happens, you had better be able to outwork the motherf---er.

Running is everything. Windsprints, long runs, stairs, hills. Stairmaster or elliptical if you're old like me. (Every few months I switch to the elliptical trainer.)

If you get outworked in a match, you have no one to blame but yourself. That's your own laziness that just cost you the fight.

[F l i c k e r]

Why run when you can go to a class full of this...

[zeitgeist]

**** man I never do any roadwork. I do lots of skipping, though. I can't jog in the area around my gym, the air is polluted with lots tuk-tuks and old motorbikes and old diesel cars on the streets. I ****ing hate it. I don't have a treadmill at home or at the gym (it's very old school with no modern machines) so I almost never jog. My cardio mainly consists of indoor soccer (futsal), skipping, lots of padwork and shadow boxing. That's it.

There's a local amateur tourney coming up in a couple of months time, too.

[HughJass]

i dont have rest in between the sprints i do a light jog,this gives me a little time to recover.if you do this it will really benefit your stamina.

[Del Coqui]

Sme people say to me dont run as it ****s you back and knee's up. but i feel like ya need to do ya roadwork! its just a old school method that has worked for years. and i hate running machines.

just wanted to get your thoughts on roadwork?

Not as important if you an amateur, you should do some kind of cardio work out and sprints.