Sugar ray robinson training routine

[rockymarciano1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usqNdSTXeJE

at the end robinson talks about his training routine.
His gym workout

6mins shadow boxing
10mins speedbag
12mins double-end bag
6mins shadow boxing
10mins heavybag
15mins skipping
abs, med ball hits

He did roadwork in the mornings and tap-dancing in the evenings. He only did sparring to sharpen up in the week before a fight to get his timing.

From this site
http://forums.doghouseboxing.com/lof...hp/t33440.html

[Albaar]

59 minutes?

[Sugarj]

He kept himself fit by actually fighting. Check out his fighting schedule. Few opportunities to get ring rusty when he was at his most active.

[McNulty]

He kept himself fit by actually fighting. Check out his fighting schedule. Few opportunities to get ring rusty when he was at his most active.

For a while he was fighting 1x-3x/month.

[Sugarj]

I think he fought 20 odd times a year for a couple of his more active times.

[Mr.MojoRisin']

59 minutes?

You aren't counting rests between rounds.

[Ren28]

16k views... Gat damn, now i'm convinced majority of these views are from google users. lol

[OctoberRed]

16k views... Gat damn, now i'm convinced majority of these views are from google users. lol

15,598 were from me.

[ezcharles]

Robinson ran 5 miles just about everyday in training. He did exercises including strength training exercises like crunches and pushups. Then he did shadow boxing and floor work in the boxing gym on the bags. I am sure he would easily do 3 rounds shadow boxing, 6 rounds on the heavy bag then at least 3 on speed bag and 3 more rounds on double end bag then around 7 rounds jumping rope 5 or 6 days a week, at least. Then spar on various days six or more rounds. He was a 15 round fighter who excelled dramatically in the sport. Never lost in a welterweight bout, and he had about 100 fights at welterweight and was world welter champion for years. 131 - 1 -1 at a moment in his career after he won the middleweight world championship from Lamotta in their 6th bout by 13th round tko. His only loss was against Jake Lamotta in their 2nd of 6 bouts. At weigh in for that 2nd bout:
Lamotta 160 lbs
Robinson 144 lbs
Unheard of today to even allow such a big weight disparity. And Robinson beat the great Jake Lamotta in all of their 5 other bouts (Ray was always considerably outweighed by Jake). Robinson lost all his bouts to middleweights ad even heavier boxers. Again, before he lost to middleweight Randy Turpin he was 131 - 1 -1. Then he lost a decision to Turpin. Then knocked Turpin out in the rematch.

Robinson trained hard. And he trained in boxing by doing boxing; old school boxing training. Shadow boxing, bag work, sparring, rope jumping and exercises, running. He trained 20+ round shadow boxing, jumping rope, doing bag work in the gym. Dude was in great shape, never knocked out. He had 200 pro fights and 85 amateur bouts, too. Retired once after heat exhaustion in a bout against the world light heavyweight champion, Joey Maxim. And he was ahead in bout at the time of the stoppage in the last rounds of their 15 round bout beating Joey rather easily.

You can see Robinson on film hitting the heavy bag, speed bag and double end bag as part of his training routine, as well as seeing him on film shadow boxing, sparring, rope jumping, running and doing exercises.

Ali was also known for getting his body in fantastic shape, looking incredible for a heavyweight in the 1960s, especially, ...by training in boxing doing boxing. Punching the bags and shadow boxing and sparring, as well as jumping rope, doing exercises and running.

[bridgeman]

This dude is a real machine