Alright. I fight really well when I put on the pressure, but I can't seem to hold it for more than 15-20 seconds.
I was thinking that this was my breathing, but I was talking to a buddy of mine who is an athletic trainer, and he spotted the following hole in my training......
..........wait for it.......
........ hill runs.
Stick with me on this.
He thinks that my legs are giving out on my hill run before my lungs can really get a good workout. So I can keep a decent pace in the ring but I can't flurry for very long.
So starting a few days ago, I quit the morning hill run (1.5 miles down a long hill, some stretching at the bottom, then running back up), and went instead to the community college track and started doing sprints inthe mornings. A quarter-mile at a nice slow pace, then some more stretching, then about 15 minutes of 100-meter and as of this morning, a few 200-meter sprints.
What's interesting is, when I started, I found I could sprint balls-out for almost EXACTLY as long as I can flurry: about 20 seconds. And at the end of it I feel EXACTLY the way I feel when I gas out at the end of a long pressure attack.
It's been four days and I'm now up to 34 seconds as my longest sprint. A full 200 meters. This is a definite improvement in a very short time.
I am going to do sprints for the next 4 weeks and see if, when I've gotten up to, say, a 60-second sprint, if I can do a 60-second flurry, as well.
If I could, theoretically, work up to a 3-minute sprint, I should be able to press the attack for the full round, which is what I'm going for in the long run.
Trainers and fighters ONLY, please, comment on this idea before I kill myself trying.
I was thinking that this was my breathing, but I was talking to a buddy of mine who is an athletic trainer, and he spotted the following hole in my training......
..........wait for it.......
........ hill runs.
Stick with me on this.
He thinks that my legs are giving out on my hill run before my lungs can really get a good workout. So I can keep a decent pace in the ring but I can't flurry for very long.
So starting a few days ago, I quit the morning hill run (1.5 miles down a long hill, some stretching at the bottom, then running back up), and went instead to the community college track and started doing sprints inthe mornings. A quarter-mile at a nice slow pace, then some more stretching, then about 15 minutes of 100-meter and as of this morning, a few 200-meter sprints.
What's interesting is, when I started, I found I could sprint balls-out for almost EXACTLY as long as I can flurry: about 20 seconds. And at the end of it I feel EXACTLY the way I feel when I gas out at the end of a long pressure attack.
It's been four days and I'm now up to 34 seconds as my longest sprint. A full 200 meters. This is a definite improvement in a very short time.
I am going to do sprints for the next 4 weeks and see if, when I've gotten up to, say, a 60-second sprint, if I can do a 60-second flurry, as well.
If I could, theoretically, work up to a 3-minute sprint, I should be able to press the attack for the full round, which is what I'm going for in the long run.
Trainers and fighters ONLY, please, comment on this idea before I kill myself trying.
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