Angel King road work is absolutely useless for boxing, you know what strengthens legs better that road work? Try strength training and actual boxing along with plyometrics and power training! You know what builds mental toughness??!!? Actual sparring and competing if your in the amateurs! You know what opens up your lungs?!?!? The sport of boxing! Road work may be good for fighters mentally but it is nothing more than a placebo effect which was traditionally passed from old school trainers!
MrYankeefan228 my friend that’s a ridiculous statement. You can’t just take PED’s and it works like magic lol. Whether a person uses PED’s or not the hard work has to be done. I’m no way am I condoning PED’s and yes if an athlete is using PED’s it is an unfair advantage but to say an athlete doesn’t have to work hard just because he’s using PED’s is ridiculous. It’s not how it works.
5 month training program, I run 4 times a week, 3 6 mile runs, 1 day of 400meter sprints , 5 months later playing full court basketball game with high school aau players, they quit after 2 hours I was still ready and no fatigue at 43 years old
He’s not saying you won’t fatigue. All he said is that it builds a lot of slow twitch muscle fiber. It’s not good for building explosiveness. Sprints will.
The great Angelo Dundee once said “I want a fighter not a runner - 3 miles is enough. You can run it , you can walk it but you have to do roadwork”. “A boxer needs to have a good base, they need their legs “.
My old wresting coach never had us run except for warming up in the wresting room. He always said if you want to be good at running you join track if you want to be good at wresting you wrestle. He developed all sorts of games to play to keep things interesting. We were all in wrestling shape are we all did good. We never lost due to conditioning.
Many boxing n MMA champions believe in road work. Lungs n muscles r trained by road work. Khabib n most Russian combat sports practice it. Learn from the Champions, not from the talkers.
If everyone does something one way then how would you know. This kind of statement just encourages uniformity even if there exists a better way. Science is pretty consistent. Humans consistently improve athletic performance because we know more scientifically. To say just listen to the old champs is nonsense, the new champs that are faster stronger and can jump higher have science on their side. Believe what you want but the facts show Conte is correct. HIIT is better for stamina than LISS. Boxing is interval training NOT classic cardio.
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The slow muscle fibers he’s talking about being built up by running, isn’t incorrect. He’s also right that sprint training is optimal. BUT long distance running is great for building mental strength and creating endurance reserves for down the stretch. A mix of long endurance training as well as explosive short interval training is the best thing I feel.
He's correct you don't need road work. If your making optimal program . Not due to increasing more slow twitch fiber types. Just because HIIT is best at lactic acid threshold which will increase endurance at a quicker rate and allow you to push hard when others gas out
Sprinting is complete SHIT compared to fast paced jogging. I have to run after sprinting to feel a real workout. What's optimal is doing fast pace jogging followed by slow paced jogging or walking, to simulate Boxing. The continuous cardio feeling you get from Boxing, CANNOT be duplicated with sprinting LMAO
What he’s saying about muscle fiber types is not bullshit. I’m in the PT field and you are born with a split of fast and slow twitch muscle fibers. There are more nuance to the types, but essentially some of them will adapt to what type of training you do. Such as explosive/strength training will develop fast twitch muscle fibers. Endurance will cause the fibers to become more slow twitch and better in anaerobic conditions.
How many boxing matches has Conte won? oh none thats right. road work builds stamina not only physically but the mental stamina a fighter needs to keep moving in the ring when he/she is tired.
The best boxers tend to make the worst trainers and the best trainers tend to have had little to no success as boxers. There are a few like Freddie Roach and Roger Mayweather who did OK as boxers, but nobody would consider them great as fighters. I tend to trust specialists who studied the academics of a topic more because it's literally all they do and all they work on.
@@tickyul The best conditioning is a combination of distance run, sprint intervals, regular sprints, hill sprints and stair climbs on differeing days thru the week. By doing both distance and sprints you get endurance and explosiveness.
@@handfloboxingreview1673 Many athletes mainly run to cut weight....they have poor discipline when it comes to diet. The biggest step-up would be for them to improve their diet. Andy Ruiz Jr comes to mind......many athletes are not much different.
Me as a boxer, running is the best when it comes to boxing. I know some of the other boxer in the gym that don’t run on a regular basis, we spar all the time and they can’t not perform as good as the ones that do the road work. So from my point of view and for experience, if you don’t run you will get tired faster. You can feel the difference when you run and when you don’t. Also experience will be a factor when it comes to stamina, it’s your brain and conditioning put together.
billy giles I did it for 18 years, I retired 3 years ago and now I’m coaching kids. Had a great experience, had the privilege to spar with Barrera, Mora, Pitalua etc, fought good fighters including 2 champs losing to both of them. Takes a lot to become a good fighter, some guys think they are bad and they find out how tough boxing is when they step in to the ring, some of them never come back. Good day!
Juan Carrillo that doesn’t make sense. You’re comparing yourself to people who don’t do anything. Fight someone that’s on a snac like routine and fight them. This is science, your individual take is meaningless
I think of boxing as placing similar demands on the body as middle-distance (800 meters-1500 meters/mile) running. Before Arthur Lydiard revolutionized the training of middle-distance runners in the 1960s, such runners were often exclusively interval trained, and did mostly work at paces very similar to those at which they would compete. Because this kind of training was very intense, the volume of training (miles per week) was quite limited. Roger Bannister, for example, became the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes in 1954 on a program of 25 miles per week--or less. Lydiard's contribution was to recognize that the cardiovascular system (heart, capillaries enzymes, the works) required a large volume of training over years to be fully developed, and that to sustain such a volume of training over a long period most of it needed to be of low to moderate intensity. After months or years of "a base" of such training, Lydiard's middle-distance runners would then perform the high-intensity training Conte discusses, and because of their aerobic background could perform a higher volume of more intense training than they would have been capable of had they stuck solely with high-intensity interval training. After this preparation, followed by a tapering period, they were capable of racing at an extremely high level. See, for example, Peter Snell, who ran 1000+ miles over 10 weeks in preparation for the 1964 Olympics, at which he won the 800 and 1500: ua-cam.com/video/RK0woLEtQQA/v-deo.html
Road work also relaxes you and you start thinking about alot of things. Gives you time to reflect especially when running in the quietness of an early morning
@@isaacwest4635 you shouldn’t listen to music while doing your roadwork. I know some fighters do, but I’m against it. Roadwork is the perfect time and place to get away, mentally and physically, from everything. It’s where you focus on the fight, not other worries. You build as much mental strength getting up real early and running without a bite to eat and you do physical endurance.
All I'm going to say is, a lot of the greatest boxers of all time say roadwork is important. I do agree with him that you need to be mixing up the tempo though. The problem I have is a bunch of newer fighters will see the click bait title, not actually watch the video, and then not run at even a little bit when they're incredibly out of shape. You still need base cardio to recover better between rounds, and a lot of newer fighters don't have the gas to go even 3 rounds. In that case, I'd say do pad work at 100%, hit the heavy bag equally hard and fast, and run a lot. Once you can spar at a decent pace for at least 6 rounds of 5 minutes a piece. Then I'd say you can look at other options besides running. There's also a reason great boxers jump a lot of rope too.
A lot of these newer guys aren’t even physically stronger. They are bigger, but lack the functional strength that these old-timers had. Joe Frazier wasn’t huge, yet he was as strong as a bull. Sonny Liston was big in his day, but wouldn’t be big today. He was possibly the strongest champion ever.
@@johnd.597 very true these boxers see how dudes in the gym train not realizing dudes in the gym training just for looks not functionality...the old era they could go 15 rounds because they did roadwork....
Come on man all the great boxers ran and ran, Ali, Leonard, Frazier, Mayweather, Hagler Etc, their stamina was unbelievable. Plus back in the days they could fight 15rds! Nowadays with all this "science based training" fighters be gassed by the 6th rd!
As ive gotten older ive gotten more skeptical when I hear new science. Because I've heard so much that turned out wrong. I use to drink orange juice all day because I was told its healthy.
@@kidofsteel0362 A lot of people can hop and jog around a ring for 15 rounds, even with minimal training. It's the intensity and the quick movements that get you. Running long distances does help, but it plays more of a role in your mind more than anything. You'll see boxers stop mid run and start shadowboxing to simulate what it's like during later rounds.
I went from 6 mile run 6 days a week to sprint interval training 4 times a week and the interval training improved my fight game but each to their own, stay strong everybody
@@acts9835 forget it i do 4 fimes a week 3 to 5 miles and i just sprint sometime and aometime dont. as long as youre running and busting your ass off in gym you should be ready. either .sprinting or running
@@acts9835 the gym work is what matters, bag work lots of it, sparring for reflexes and timing, intervals on bag, mitts, jump rope, core, neck. staying loose. ans fight your fight
Jog at 50% for 5 miles if thats the pace and duration that you want to be able to perform at. If you want to be able to go hard for three minutes at a time, repeatedly, then train for that.
A little off topic One important factor to endurance for boxing is efficiency. If you can learn to expend less energy to perform a movement then it can help maintain your stamina.
Young fighters: stay away from victor conte by any means necessary. Check his history if u don’t believe me. (BALCO) Only in America can someone get busted and convicted for selling drugs, come back and reinvent themselves and their career how anyone trusts this man is beyond me
raghu rajaram you need to chill fam! I was convicted of selling marijuana, does that mean I don’t deserve a chance to be an upstanding citizen?!?!?!?!?!?!? People deserve chances bro! Plus he actually knows about exercise science!
So this guy literally said if u wanna be weaker by all means go and jog 5 miles every morning so according to this guy mike Tyson who would wake up at 4am to run 6-7 miles was getting weaker and slower from running TF I’m a boxer Aswell and long runs help really fucking good in sparring and fights because u need that basic stamina to even do heavy sprinting in the first place
Hahaha ooookay!?!? Boxers have done long distance running everyday since the turn of the 20th century. All the greats (Marciano, Ali, Tyson, Louis, Robinson etc.) have done long distance running. Who is this guy??
I was against running . I watched this initially and agreed . But it just doesn't make sense anymore . How is a boxer going to build the slow twitch fibres in the legs ? Why is that the enemy ? To fight 12 rounds or even 3 rounds you need to be fluently moving , and do to that explosively within 1 round your fighter will be gassed . On paper it sounds ideal, the most explosive fighter wins , but in reality it's usually the one who does MORE . More feints , more jabs , more foot movement .
He did not say, "Road work is useless for boxers". He said that sprints are the best for boxers. And, sprints is road work. But, boxers did 15 rounds of boxing with their long distance jogs for greater wind for the lungs, and getting their second wind during intense fights. So, Victor Conte just has his ideas on fitness training that he promotes that attracts many fighters!
Mainly using roadwork to cut weight. Much better to clean-up your diet and skip the roadwork....do something that targets the actual requirements of a fight.
Low-intensity steady state cardio builds your aerobic conditioning without incurring the heavy recovery costs of moderate- to high-intensity interval training. It's just silly not to include it in some fashion.
personally road work has helped me survive in sparring. before roadwork i was gettin tired as fuck ahahah. the more running i do the more ive been able to box more.
@Narcissistic “Endotoxin (like intense physical activity) causes the estrogen concentration of the blood to rise.” “Cytochrome oxidase in the brain can also be increased by mental stimulation, learning, and moderate exercise, but excessive exercise or the wrong kind of exercise (“eccentric”) can lower it (Aguiar, et al., 2007, 2008), probably by increasing the stress hormones and free fatty acids. Sedentary living a high altitude has beneficial effects on mitochondria similar to moderate exercise at sea level (He, at al., 2012.”
It depends, one thing is clear all the guys that never do road work (heavily muscled) david haye, klitschko, joshua. Tend to gas out in hard fights ! Wilder was shot too against fury who looked fat
This guy is saying long distance running is useless because of how he trains and uses all this new technology stuff. Oxygen and non motor treadmill. That's why. Old school & new school
Hes been doing this for THIRTY SIX YEARS while you guys just watch t.v.He is not the only person to say this.FACT (but not well known)sprints is the best exercise on Earth.All that running will for a fact ,age you quicker and mess up your joints quicker.There is no need for long jogs for an explosive sport.
Okay for all of the slow bucks in the comments. He not saying not to run but not just slow steady pace. Instead of just running 5 miles for the hell of it break up the runs into intervals: 6 to 10 second bursts of sprints, fast and hard shadowboxing, jump squats, and clap pushups. Now utilize 30-45 secs of jogging to recover depending on conditioning. Say you are a 4 round fighter, use 6 seconds of an explosive activity followed 30 secs of low intensity effort such as jogging or walking for the duration of a 3 minute round. During the 1 minute breaks walk to recover, and repeat as many rounds as you fight. Using intervals like this, you not only become more explosive but are able to recover quicker between explosive combinations.
99% of the comments below were written before even watching this clip. 98% watched 1 minute gmfast forwarded and clicked on another video. HES NOT SAYING NOT TO RUN!! HES SAYING LONG DISTANCE CONSTANT TEMPO RUNNING ISNT THE MOST EFFECTIVE OR IDEAL FORM OF TRANING TO DEVELOP CARDIO VASCULAR AND MUSCULAR ENDURNACE. SHORT BURTS OF OF MOVEMENT DONT IN INTERVALS.
Willie Pep was a very firm believer in road work. He has 229 wins, 11 losses to 9 men. Henry Armstrong fought 27 times in 1937 using a good diet and roadwork. Both gentlemen were without a 'strength and conditioning coach' and more specifically a cheating S&C coach ! Mr. Pep recorded 30 back to back fights for the next two calendars one month out of a body cast [for a fractured vertebrae and a broken leg suffered in a plane crash]. In that two year window, he fought his high risk adversary twice in Sandy Saddler and the [un-filmed] rematch win over 15Rounds [ which is a better *read than watching Roy Jones' and Floyd Mayweather's careers combined because they demonstrated choosing lower risks opposition over a many many calendars]. Mr. Pep hath major historical accolades intertwined inside one comeback [ greater than George Foreman's return and more recently, Tyson Fury's ]. Errol Spence has 24 bouts in S I X Long years. Floyd has 50 bouts many of which are lower risks chosen to deceive the masses, while making more money. For all humans beginning with the Bernie Madoff types that deceive, they plant decay. For athletes and or pugilists, the decay is reaped after the money is mismanaged, stolen, gambled and or spent erroneously, their boxing record stays forever. Vinny Pazienza's comeback is second to Willie's because Willie's was in a time hospitals may have been with lesser resources (?) and the competition Willie went through were more frequent and undoubtedly higher grade than Mr. Pazienza's.
Road work is what got me a relentless pace to keep up pressure but has to be paid attention to if you're doing too much of it since our joints can only handle so much of it.
Sonya Dumas go read a exercise physiology book. I’m a student currently taking that course and it’s true. There’s been hundreds of not thousands of studies proving this.
Long distance running is great when you are out of shape, in the beginning of camp. Sprint interval training is taxing though, depending on the athlete how you will have to program that.
The science is evolving rapidly in this area. His theory is correct that HIIT improves explosive endurance that is anaerobic, but studies have shown that steady state cardio builds heart rate recovery and zone maintenance better than HIIT. What that means is your heart rate drops faster in between rounds, which allows you to come back to a fight fresher than you would otherwise. It also allows you to operate at a higher heart rate zone for a longer period of time, which becomes more important late in the fight. Those are the rounds where explosiveness fades, but even doing basic slow twitch things like keeping your hands up and staying off the ropes is a challenge. Overcoming those obstacles is better addressed with steady state cardio. You need both, of course, but modern camps based on modern fitness principles will create a 15 week plan that begins with aerobic for at least the first 4-6 weeks and progressively shifts to anaerobic for cardio.
I agree and disagree some guys think by running 10 miles is gonna give them endless stamina and usually those are the ones who has out I run 2 miles twice a week Tuesday and Thursday including sprints and it’s all u need
Tell that to almost all the current champions including mma. Most of them all do road work, with sprint interval training. How many world champions are in this guys gym right now? None.
I'm not saying he's right or wrong. But I will say that roadwork encourages workout ethics. If you can push through miles of jogging then you can do just about anything in regards to physical fitness.
I think a mixture of the two intermittent, a balance is what he is saying.. you guys are so aggressive, splitting hairs.. instead of tapping the keyboard, get out and tap some ladies/ gentlemen, or just go out and fight some f..ker , test your endurance and speed ffs ... jus saying.. nicely quietly..
Sprinting is complete SHIT compared to fast paced jogging. I have to run after sprinting to feel a real workout. What's optimal is doing fast pace jogging followed by slow paced jogging or walking, to simulate Boxing. The continuous cardio feeling you get from Boxing, CANNOT be duplicated with sprinting LMAO
I do not believe it is possible to change the percentage of fast twitch or slow twitch muscle fibers you have no matter what type of running you do. What you are born with, you are born with. It is like trying to change your eye color.
I think Victor made some good points. But the benefits of roadwork are the strength it gives your legs and the mental and spiritual fortitude you develop from maintaining constant motion, especially when fatigued. I think every fighter has to see what works for them. Sometimes too much roadwork can be bad on the joints and it may sap too much energy and testosterone. I think roadwork is great, but each person should use trial and error to determine how many miles and how many days out of the week they should do it
Running long miles increases stamina and all round fitness. If you use it properly in the ring of course it’s useful. Victor conte is full of crap lol he believes in his athletes using steroids and been convicted of distributing it and money laundering, this guy gives bad advice 😂🤣
Sprint intervals dont make you faster. Proper sprint training on a track wearing spikes makes you considerably faster..this is true sprinting. If you are doing 20 to 40 second sprint intervals then you aren't really sprinting. Proper sprinting can only be sustained for a few seconds. Roadwork doesn't make you less explosive, it allows you to sustain your explosiveness for longer...meaning if you do roadwork on other days you should do proper sprint training not lazy sprint intervals
@@carlbismar203 i box and done t&f he’s is literally saying interval training doesn’t make you faster which is untrue plyometrics also helps improve explosiveness which will increase speed . If you studied sports science you will know this. He said sprint training but does not specify what method of sprint training interval training is a method of training sprinters and athletes use to improve speed another is pylometrics like I mentioned before. Long distance training does not improve explosiveness as it is done at a moderate intensity using slow twitch fibre which aren’t responsible for explosive movements ,where as in sprint intervals the body uses fast twitch muscle fibres which are used during explosive movements.
Road work is more for keeping the weight down. Hes right but its still needed 5-8miles a day...2/3 sprint drills a week high intensity and lots of sparring
@@jordanosborne4383 no, your knees and ankles wont handle pavement most likely if youre exxess weight. if you only have littlebit fat then you propably can run, i would try to find soft surface to run.
This guy has probably never boxed a day in his life. The hardest punching boxers in history all did roadwork except for deontay wilder. Boxing doesent only require speed but it requires endurance and stamina, meaning it would be stupid to try and box without doing roadwork. It makes your legs more durable so you wont get tired from prolonged use of your leg muscles in the ring when using explosive footwork
Most modern day professional boxers barley do long distance, like Gervonta Davis, naoya inoue, and deontay wilder. They are the fastest and hit the hardest in there weight divisions and they barley do long distance, they do sprints. If the OG boxers like mike tyson and Ali did sprint training, they would be even faster and hit even harder and still have good stamina.
Theres plenty of other ways to increase stamina and work more of the muscles used in boxing than long distance running Battle ropes, rowing, sprints, boxing, skipping Why do you think long distance runner are all super skinny but weak as hell
Tell that to Pacquiao or Tyson who does serious roadwork on how it slowed them down. Roadwork is for building stamina. Developing twitch muscle is whole different part of training. Is that why this guy is famous for being in prison for cheating?
@@joystickcasa5309 There's no such thing as natural dumb ass. How can they be natural if you say they're juiced? You're a dickhead with no knowledge of sport. Every sporting event is an invention, meaning a learned skill. Otherwise, if you're natural, why even train, just show up.
@@moistsquirt1592 Prove it considering there were no positive test nor violation unlike Mayweather. If you can't, have a coke and a smile and STFU. Manny is being tested by VADA. www.businessinsider.com/floyd-mayweather-illegal-iv-manny-pacquiao-fight-2015-9
@@rspcoach619 I don't need evidence to know a cheat when I see one. Usain bolt runs 9.58, and Ben''Juiced to the Gills"Johnson runs 9.79. Doesn't take a genius to see that Bolt is doping, but you're gonna ask e for evidence. Pacman moved up 8 weight divisions, and still was competitive. You are now gonna tell me he is a spectacular once in a lifetime fighter rofl. MAyweathers also a cheat. When did I say he wasnt. He obviously has been taking EPO his entire career, but I have no evidence to prove how he comes on strong in the later rounds. It's all speculation by me, but I don't think either are clean. Andre WArd and Mikey Garcia can be added to that list because they work with Victo Conte rofl. No evidence right. Common sense more like.
Here’s what is a mystery you have Fighters today taking PEDs going to Conte Ariza Herida or others and many barley make it 12 rounds Old School Fighters did road work and train in the gym did no weights and were able to fight 15 round wars without passing out . Salvador Sanchez fought the 15th round like it was the first round so who knows the answer ?
mackinass916 I used to box and had better cardio than your average Joe. I did both long distance and sprints but I was told when running my long distance to run it as fast as possible every time usually 6 mile runs. But sprints wear you down much quicker so I would do them a little less often to recover better. Shit worked.
@@moistsquirt1592 roadwork is all endurance unless you're also full on sprinting. High intensity interval training is more stamina and less endurance. Muscle stamina/endurance is different from cardiovascular stamina/endurance. Roadwork forces you to endure and persevere.
I only do 5k 3 times a week first thing in morning, I find it loosens me up then when I do explosive bag work later on that evening feel good and ready
Ask Deontay Wilder if road work is useless. He does none, and his legs are like stilts. He has terrible endurance and would beneift from miles of running. Roadwork isn't useless for fighters. Victor knows alot, but he's wrong on that one.
Willie Pep was a very firm believer in road work. He has 229 wins, 11 losses to 9 men. Henry Armstrong fought 27 times in 1937 using a good diet and roadwork. Both gentlemen were without a 'strength and conditioning coach' and more specifically a cheating S&C coach ! Mr. Pep recorded 30 back to back fights for the next two calendars one month out of a body cast [for a fractured vertebrae and a broken leg suffered in a plane crash]. In that two year window, he fought his high risk adversary twice in Sandy Saddler and the [un-filmed] rematch win over 15Rounds [ which is a better *read than watching Roy Jones' and Floyd Mayweather's careers combined because they demonstrated choosing lower risks opposition over a many many calendars]. Mr. Pep hath major historical accolades intertwined inside one comeback [ greater than George Foreman's return and more recently, Tyson Fury's ]. Errol Spence has 24 bouts in S I X Long years. Floyd has 50 bouts many of which are lower risks chosen to deceive the masses, while making more money. For all humans beginning with the Bernie Madoff types that deceive, they plant decay. For athletes and or pugilists, the decay is reaped after the money is mismanaged, stolen, gambled and or spent erroneously, their boxing record stays forever. Vinny Pazienza's comeback is second to Willie's because Willie's was in a time hospitals may have been with lesser resources (?) and the competition Willie went through were more frequent and undoubtedly higher grade than Mr. Pazienza's.
And this comes from a guy who did time for steroid distribution. Listening to this fool talk about roadwork is like getting real estate advice from a homeless person
Road work has been done since wayy back and it has been done by many greatest boxers of all time like Ali and Mayweather etc. But also high altitude training like sprinting is good for you for condition so both are really good for you. Ones to be explosive and the other to last longer. So it's a win win situation
Sometimes it's just about running long distances to build up mental toughness and fortitude to finish. This guy looks like he needs the roadwork by the way.
Don't forget that your foundation was built up by long running. You would not get out as much of sprint training if you not have long running behind you.
All the greats did road work that’s been in boxing for decades. Today fighters be all stiff niggas be gassed out by 6 7 rounds especially the heavyweights
Lol well this is coming from someone who's probably never ran a mile or done a pull up in his life soo... also all the guy he trains are already elite athletes
Are you stupid in boxing it is about endurance. Road work gives you the endurance to take punches and push through when you do road work interval training and sprints is part of it.
In boxing you don't just train your body to give punishment. You have to train it to take punishment. The reason why elite athletes train at high altitudes is for low oxygen you idiot. And do it the whole camp. If your fighter is training on high oxygen towards the end of the camp. The guy that is training at higher altitudes is going to be more aerobically fit. Especially if they fight at higher altitudes.
@@roberthollis1962 If you wanna last 12 rounds, then do road work for a UD win. I you want 1 punch ko power, then do sprints and fade in later rounds. If you want both, then do boh
I do both to increase stamina I do the pace everyday, elíptical and stair master. But the pacer is by far the hardest at the pace I run and the amount of time I do It. My endurance has increased a lot.
I mean it sounds good but 2 fighters debunk these talks in floyd and pacman. Floyd trained whenever he wanted and he ran. Pacman always runs and look what he did. So all I will say is scientifically I wont disagree but performance wise cant say that its 100% either. Remember before all this information in all sports shit was done old school and we have great modern day athletes that competed at a very high level. But then again you have guys like Lebron james that uses all this technology and look what it has done for his career. So maybe you can do both old school and new school.
Pete Crespo just because they ran it doesn’t mean it worked. If they replaced sprints with running who know maybe they’d be better. Most of their work came from sparing many rounds and what they did in the gym.
Road work opens up lungs, strengthens legs and mentally toughen your spirit.
he said excessive clown.i get what he means. running long distance makes you lose power if you do it to often
Yeah that has nothing to do with science.
Angel King road work is absolutely useless for boxing, you know what strengthens legs better that road work? Try strength training and actual boxing along with plyometrics and power training! You know what builds mental toughness??!!? Actual sparring and competing if your in the amateurs! You know what opens up your lungs?!?!? The sport of boxing! Road work may be good for fighters mentally but it is nothing more than a placebo effect which was traditionally passed from old school trainers!
MrSmurf459 how you know...? You don’t box. Running is part of boxing workout for years.... the fighters know that road work have great benefits.
Angel King sprints are way way better.
This guy doesn't believe in hard work!! He believes in PED's and giving his athletes an unfair advantage!! Facts!!!
Perfectly put 💯
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You need to take a biology class
MrYankeefan228 my friend that’s a ridiculous statement. You can’t just take PED’s and it works like magic lol. Whether a person uses PED’s or not the hard work has to be done. I’m no way am I condoning PED’s and yes if an athlete is using PED’s it is an unfair advantage but to say an athlete doesn’t have to work hard just because he’s using PED’s is ridiculous. It’s not how it works.
MrYankeefan228 show me a video of u doing a sprinting routine, hills ect. And tell me that’s not hard work u dunce lol
5 month training program, I run 4 times a week, 3 6 mile runs, 1 day of 400meter sprints , 5 months later playing full court basketball game with high school aau players, they quit after 2 hours I was still ready and no fatigue at 43 years old
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Nice dude.
What do you for your knees?
@@JesusChrist2000BC he gobbles cck
He’s not saying you won’t fatigue. All he said is that it builds a lot of slow twitch muscle fiber. It’s not good for building explosiveness. Sprints will.
The great Angelo Dundee once said “I want a fighter not a runner - 3 miles is enough. You can run it , you can walk it but you have to do roadwork”. “A boxer needs to have a good base, they need their legs “.
My old wresting coach never had us run except for warming up in the wresting room. He always said if you want to be good at running you join track if you want to be good at wresting you wrestle. He developed all sorts of games to play to keep things interesting. We were all in wrestling shape are we all did good. We never lost due to conditioning.
Smart man
Many boxing n MMA champions believe in road work. Lungs n muscles r trained by road work. Khabib n most Russian combat sports practice it. Learn from the Champions, not from the talkers.
If everyone does something one way then how would you know. This kind of statement just encourages uniformity even if there exists a better way. Science is pretty consistent. Humans consistently improve athletic performance because we know more scientifically. To say just listen to the old champs is nonsense, the new champs that are faster stronger and can jump higher have science on their side. Believe what you want but the facts show Conte is correct. HIIT is better for stamina than LISS. Boxing is interval training NOT classic cardio.
@@MegaPoliyo Evolved? Today's boxers are gassing fast as hell. Boxers from back in the day fought 15 rounds and still had energy to go more rounds.
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@@Ihavetocorrectyou Do you think boxers today aren't doing roadwork?
@@tomberwick1044 There not as hungry.
The slow muscle fibers he’s talking about being built up by running, isn’t incorrect. He’s also right that sprint training is optimal. BUT long distance running is great for building mental strength and creating endurance reserves for down the stretch. A mix of long endurance training as well as explosive short interval training is the best thing I feel.
bdpchamp this is why Floyd does long distance running at a high pace. He mixes both
balance.
He's correct you don't need road work. If your making optimal program . Not due to increasing more slow twitch fiber types. Just because HIIT is best at lactic acid threshold which will increase endurance at a quicker rate and allow you to push hard when others gas out
Sprinting is complete SHIT compared to fast paced jogging. I have to run after sprinting to feel a real workout. What's optimal is doing fast pace jogging followed by slow paced jogging or walking, to simulate Boxing. The continuous cardio feeling you get from Boxing, CANNOT be duplicated with sprinting LMAO
What he’s saying about muscle fiber types is not bullshit. I’m in the PT field and you are born with a split of fast and slow twitch muscle fibers. There are more nuance to the types, but essentially some of them will adapt to what type of training you do. Such as explosive/strength training will develop fast twitch muscle fibers. Endurance will cause the fibers to become more slow twitch and better in anaerobic conditions.
How many boxing matches has Conte won? oh none thats right. road work builds stamina not only physically but the mental stamina a fighter needs to keep moving in the ring when he/she is tired.
The best boxers tend to make the worst trainers and the best trainers tend to have had little to no success as boxers. There are a few like Freddie Roach and Roger Mayweather who did OK as boxers, but nobody would consider them great as fighters.
I tend to trust specialists who studied the academics of a topic more because it's literally all they do and all they work on.
Sprinting would be better conditioning for boxing.
@@tickyul The best conditioning is a combination of distance run, sprint intervals, regular sprints, hill sprints and stair climbs on differeing days thru the week. By doing both distance and sprints you get endurance and explosiveness.
@@handfloboxingreview1673 Many athletes mainly run to cut weight....they have poor discipline when it comes to diet. The biggest step-up would be for them to improve their diet. Andy Ruiz Jr comes to mind......many athletes are not much different.
Me as a boxer, running is the best when it comes to boxing. I know some of the other boxer in the gym that don’t run on a regular basis, we spar all the time and they can’t not perform as good as the ones that do the road work. So from my point of view and for experience, if you don’t run you will get tired faster. You can feel the difference when you run and when you don’t. Also experience will be a factor when it comes to stamina, it’s your brain and conditioning put together.
Real Deal Right on. This drug pusher believes in pharmaceuticals.
And how long you been in the business of sport science?
billy giles I did it for 18 years, I retired 3 years ago and now I’m coaching kids. Had a great experience, had the privilege to spar with Barrera, Mora, Pitalua etc, fought good fighters including 2 champs losing to both of them. Takes a lot to become a good fighter, some guys think they are bad and they find out how tough boxing is when they step in to the ring, some of them never come back. Good day!
Juan Carrillo He becomes a Millionaire off his products like a King Ping does with Cocaine
Juan Carrillo that doesn’t make sense. You’re comparing yourself to people who don’t do anything. Fight someone that’s on a snac like routine and fight them. This is science, your individual take is meaningless
I think of boxing as placing similar demands on the body as middle-distance (800 meters-1500 meters/mile) running. Before Arthur Lydiard revolutionized the training of middle-distance runners in the 1960s, such runners were often exclusively interval trained, and did mostly work at paces very similar to those at which they would compete. Because this kind of training was very intense, the volume of training (miles per week) was quite limited. Roger Bannister, for example, became the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes in 1954 on a program of 25 miles per week--or less. Lydiard's contribution was to recognize that the cardiovascular system (heart, capillaries enzymes, the works) required a large volume of training over years to be fully developed, and that to sustain such a volume of training over a long period most of it needed to be of low to moderate intensity. After months or years of "a base" of such training, Lydiard's middle-distance runners would then perform the high-intensity training Conte discusses, and because of their aerobic background could perform a higher volume of more intense training than they would have been capable of had they stuck solely with high-intensity interval training. After this preparation, followed by a tapering period, they were capable of racing at an extremely high level. See, for example, Peter Snell, who ran 1000+ miles over 10 weeks in preparation for the 1964 Olympics, at which he won the 800 and 1500: ua-cam.com/video/RK0woLEtQQA/v-deo.html
Road work also relaxes you and you start thinking about alot of things. Gives you time to reflect especially when running in the quietness of an early morning
Do you not listen to music?
Absolutely. It's something special and unique running and listenting your breathe and your body while letting to free your mind from negativity.
@@isaacwest4635 you shouldn’t listen to music while doing your roadwork. I know some fighters do, but I’m against it. Roadwork is the perfect time and place to get away, mentally and physically, from everything. It’s where you focus on the fight, not other worries. You build as much mental strength getting up real early and running without a bite to eat and you do physical endurance.
All I'm going to say is, a lot of the greatest boxers of all time say roadwork is important. I do agree with him that you need to be mixing up the tempo though. The problem I have is a bunch of newer fighters will see the click bait title, not actually watch the video, and then not run at even a little bit when they're incredibly out of shape. You still need base cardio to recover better between rounds, and a lot of newer fighters don't have the gas to go even 3 rounds. In that case, I'd say do pad work at 100%, hit the heavy bag equally hard and fast, and run a lot. Once you can spar at a decent pace for at least 6 rounds of 5 minutes a piece. Then I'd say you can look at other options besides running. There's also a reason great boxers jump a lot of rope too.
Then why do fighters seem more tired and slow today than other eras ?....very robotic now,even if physically stronger.
A lot of these newer guys aren’t even physically stronger. They are bigger, but lack the functional strength that these old-timers had. Joe Frazier wasn’t huge, yet he was as strong as a bull. Sonny Liston was big in his day, but wouldn’t be big today. He was possibly the strongest champion ever.
@@micahcharles4277 Wilder never fought Andy Ruiz
@@johnd.597 very true these boxers see how dudes in the gym train not realizing dudes in the gym training just for looks not functionality...the old era they could go 15 rounds because they did roadwork....
What are you even talking about? Do you even watch boxing
Don't road work for gawd sake....get better at evading PED tests and take more PED's woooooohooooooo
Come on man all the great boxers ran and ran, Ali, Leonard, Frazier, Mayweather, Hagler Etc, their stamina was unbelievable. Plus back in the days they could fight 15rds! Nowadays with all this "science based training" fighters be gassed by the 6th rd!
Lmao Right?? Those dudes used to go 15 rounds and still had gas left in the tank.
As ive gotten older ive gotten more skeptical when I hear new science. Because I've heard so much that turned out wrong. I use to drink orange juice all day because I was told its healthy.
@@kidofsteel0362 A lot of people can hop and jog around a ring for 15 rounds, even with minimal training. It's the intensity and the quick movements that get you. Running long distances does help, but it plays more of a role in your mind more than anything. You'll see boxers stop mid run and start shadowboxing to simulate what it's like during later rounds.
and they fought 5+ times a year
@@GuyFromTheSouth orange juice made from oranges only is good. not that chemichal shake you get from plastic cans.
Tell Floyd Mayweather that...He never had any I
Issues especially with endurance
Organic OGFarmzZ Floyd Mayweather also works out 4 times a day, not something everyone does
Facts
I went from 6 mile run 6 days a week to sprint interval training 4 times a week and the interval training improved my fight game but each to their own, stay strong everybody
what time do you use for your interval sprinting for fighting?
@@radek2252 what time do you use for hill sprints?
@@acts9835 forget it i do 4 fimes a week 3 to 5 miles and i just sprint sometime and aometime dont. as long as youre running and busting your ass off in gym you should be ready. either .sprinting or running
@@acts9835 the gym work is what matters, bag work lots of it, sparring for reflexes and timing, intervals on bag, mitts, jump rope, core, neck. staying loose. ans fight your fight
Jog at 50% for 5 miles if thats the pace and duration that you want to be able to perform at. If you want to be able to go hard for three minutes at a time, repeatedly, then train for that.
Tryna lose body fat will road runs help?
Rocky did roadwork and beat the Russian guy! He even ran up a mountain ⛰
😂
Tell that to Sal Sanchez, Henry Armstrong, Manny Pacquiao, Etc; science can help but it shouldn’t replace what’s worked for so long.
warrior84ish Marvin Hagler
you sir know your boxing. salvador sanches use to win his fight in 13,14,15 round. now canelo gets tired in 5 rounds.
PACQUIAO IS A FRAUD
warrior84ish road work is dogma fam!
Read. Pls just read.
A little off topic
One important factor to endurance for boxing is efficiency. If you can learn to expend less energy to perform a movement then it can help maintain your stamina.
Running is not only for stamina! It Develops you in other ways also! For yall who know what im talking about!
BL00D for PRIDE yup! that's one of them!
Young fighters: stay away from victor conte by any means necessary. Check his history if u don’t believe me. (BALCO) Only in America can someone get busted and convicted for selling drugs, come back and reinvent themselves and their career how anyone trusts this man is beyond me
Doesn’t he just look like a god damn sleaze ball to y’all??? Lol
People deserve second chances bud
He is now working with Mike Garcia, i bet that is why they say Mike Garcia has high boxing IQ, Conte is the reason if you know what i mean.
raghu rajaram you need to chill fam! I was convicted of selling marijuana, does that mean I don’t deserve a chance to be an upstanding citizen?!?!?!?!?!?!? People deserve chances bro! Plus he actually knows about exercise science!
Too late lmao I bought SNAC expedite (raspberry/lemonade) 😂🤣
You must do both endurance and speed runs. Both critical
speed runs not true
So this guy literally said if u wanna be weaker by all means go and jog 5 miles every morning so according to this guy mike Tyson who would wake up at 4am to run 6-7 miles was getting weaker and slower from running TF I’m a boxer Aswell and long runs help really fucking good in sparring and fights because u need that basic stamina to even do heavy sprinting in the first place
Hahaha ooookay!?!? Boxers have done long distance running everyday since the turn of the 20th century. All the greats (Marciano, Ali, Tyson, Louis, Robinson etc.) have done long distance running. Who is this guy??
They don't do road work because at snac they rather have time to have snacks
😂🤣😂🤣
and steroids
I was against running . I watched this initially and agreed . But it just doesn't make sense anymore .
How is a boxer going to build the slow twitch fibres in the legs ? Why is that the enemy ?
To fight 12 rounds or even 3 rounds you need to be fluently moving , and do to that explosively within 1 round your fighter will be gassed .
On paper it sounds ideal, the most explosive fighter wins , but in reality it's usually the one who does MORE . More feints , more jabs , more foot movement .
Floyed mayweather runs 8 miles.
Victor Conte vs. Angel Heredia. Who wins?
He did not say, "Road work is useless for boxers". He said that sprints are the best for boxers. And, sprints is road work. But, boxers did 15 rounds of boxing with their long distance jogs for greater wind for the lungs, and getting their second wind during intense fights. So, Victor Conte just has his ideas on fitness training that he promotes that attracts many fighters!
Mainly using roadwork to cut weight. Much better to clean-up your diet and skip
the roadwork....do something that targets the actual requirements of a fight.
Low-intensity steady state cardio builds your aerobic conditioning without incurring the heavy recovery costs of moderate- to high-intensity interval training. It's just silly not to include it in some fashion.
personally road work has helped me survive in sparring. before roadwork i was gettin tired as fuck ahahah. the more running i do the more ive been able to box more.
Its not so good long term it messes up your thyroid that’s why runners are on PEDs
@@916bigAl how does it mess up your thyroid ?
@@916bigAl running and thyroid problems don’t equate
@Narcissistic look up Ray Peats articles on endurance athletes thyroid
@Narcissistic
“Endotoxin (like intense physical activity) causes the estrogen concentration of the blood to rise.”
“Cytochrome oxidase in the brain can also be increased by mental stimulation, learning, and moderate exercise, but excessive exercise or the wrong kind of exercise (“eccentric”) can lower it (Aguiar, et al., 2007, 2008), probably by increasing the stress hormones and free fatty acids. Sedentary living a high altitude has beneficial effects on mitochondria similar to moderate exercise at sea level (He, at al., 2012.”
It depends, one thing is clear all the guys that never do road work (heavily muscled) david haye, klitschko, joshua. Tend to gas out in hard fights !
Wilder was shot too against fury who looked fat
This guy is saying long distance running is useless because of how he trains and uses all this new technology stuff. Oxygen and non motor treadmill. That's why.
Old school & new school
What about Floyd,he prolly runs or ran more than most fighters and was faster than all
Hes been doing this for THIRTY SIX YEARS while you guys just watch t.v.He is not the only person to say this.FACT (but not well known)sprints is the best exercise on Earth.All that running will for a fact ,age you quicker and mess up your joints quicker.There is no need for long jogs for an explosive sport.
Okay for all of the slow bucks in the comments. He not saying not to run but not just slow steady pace. Instead of just running 5 miles for the hell of it break up the runs into intervals: 6 to 10 second bursts of sprints, fast and hard shadowboxing, jump squats, and clap pushups. Now utilize 30-45 secs of jogging to recover depending on conditioning. Say you are a 4 round fighter, use 6 seconds of an explosive activity followed 30 secs of low intensity effort such as jogging or walking for the duration of a 3 minute round. During the 1 minute breaks walk to recover, and repeat as many rounds as you fight. Using intervals like this, you not only become more explosive but are able to recover quicker between explosive combinations.
How come every great boxer in history has done roadwork?
99% of the comments below were written before even watching this clip. 98% watched 1 minute gmfast forwarded and clicked on another video. HES NOT SAYING NOT TO RUN!! HES SAYING LONG DISTANCE CONSTANT TEMPO RUNNING ISNT THE MOST EFFECTIVE OR IDEAL FORM OF TRANING TO DEVELOP CARDIO VASCULAR AND MUSCULAR ENDURNACE. SHORT BURTS OF OF MOVEMENT DONT IN INTERVALS.
Willie Pep was a very firm believer in road work. He has 229 wins, 11 losses to 9 men. Henry Armstrong fought 27 times in 1937 using a good diet and roadwork. Both gentlemen were without a 'strength and conditioning coach' and more specifically a cheating S&C coach ! Mr. Pep recorded 30 back to back fights for the next two calendars one month out of a body cast [for a fractured vertebrae and a broken leg suffered in a plane crash]. In that two year window, he fought his high risk adversary twice in Sandy Saddler and the [un-filmed] rematch win over 15Rounds [ which is a better *read than watching Roy Jones' and Floyd Mayweather's careers combined because they demonstrated choosing lower risks opposition over a many many calendars]. Mr. Pep hath major historical accolades intertwined inside one comeback [ greater than George Foreman's return and more recently, Tyson Fury's ]. Errol Spence has 24 bouts in S I X Long years. Floyd has 50 bouts many of which are lower risks chosen to deceive the masses, while making more money. For all humans beginning with the Bernie Madoff types that deceive, they plant decay. For athletes and or pugilists, the decay is reaped after the money is mismanaged, stolen, gambled and or spent erroneously, their boxing record stays forever. Vinny Pazienza's comeback is second to Willie's because Willie's was in a time hospitals may have been with lesser resources (?) and the competition Willie went through were more frequent and undoubtedly higher grade than Mr. Pazienza's.
Road work is what got me a relentless pace to keep up pressure but has to be paid attention to if you're doing too much of it since our joints can only handle so much of it.
, what proof do you have dude running is been before time and now you want to come along and tell the fighters not to run unbelievable
Sonya Dumas go read a exercise physiology book. I’m a student currently taking that course and it’s true. There’s been hundreds of not thousands of studies proving this.
@@randyc3579 sprinting mixed with jogging is the best
Long distance running is great when you are out of shape, in the beginning of camp. Sprint interval training is taxing though, depending on the athlete how you will have to program that.
He didnt say not to run. What he did say was scientific facts. Go look it up to see if what he said in this video is true.
ramoniskool1 True that’s what I use to do when is was an amateur boxer . I ran long distance for endurance and sprints to emulate a slugfest
The science is evolving rapidly in this area. His theory is correct that HIIT improves explosive endurance that is anaerobic, but studies have shown that steady state cardio builds heart rate recovery and zone maintenance better than HIIT. What that means is your heart rate drops faster in between rounds, which allows you to come back to a fight fresher than you would otherwise. It also allows you to operate at a higher heart rate zone for a longer period of time, which becomes more important late in the fight. Those are the rounds where explosiveness fades, but even doing basic slow twitch things like keeping your hands up and staying off the ropes is a challenge.
Overcoming those obstacles is better addressed with steady state cardio. You need both, of course, but modern camps based on modern fitness principles will create a 15 week plan that begins with aerobic for at least the first 4-6 weeks and progressively shifts to anaerobic for cardio.
I agree and disagree some guys think by running 10 miles is gonna give them endless stamina and usually those are the ones who has out I run 2 miles twice a week Tuesday and Thursday including sprints and it’s all u need
He has a point you don’t jog in boxing
Mayweather
There is one thing running sure does. Running helps mentally. Long distance running is a great exercise for the mind. That’s what I think.
Sure kid put those little dishevelled soy bot marathon guys into a boxing ring snd see how the mental toughness helps them
Any boxer who doesn do road work will always struggle against somebody who does. You cannot build a top tier gas tank without roadwork.
Floyd Mayweather does road work.
When I saw "road work" in the title, I thought it meant road construction work!! lol 😅😂😂
you ass hahaahhahah
I wont take advice from someone i dont want to look like. If im taking fitness advice you better be shredded
You need to run long distance as a boxer no doubt this guy is wrong
Tell that to almost all the current champions including mma. Most of them all do road work, with sprint interval training. How many world champions are in this guys gym right now? None.
Ok buddy say that to all the top boxers in the world
Check heart rate of interval sprints versus jogging at a tempo
Mayweather ran and had very good stamina as well as Pacman, Fury, Ali, Usyk etc.
I'm not saying he's right or wrong. But I will say that roadwork encourages workout ethics. If you can push through miles of jogging then you can do just about anything in regards to physical fitness.
I don’t know what everybody is doing and trying to preach. Just go watch some mayweather. Only advice you need
I think a mixture of the two intermittent, a balance is what he is saying.. you guys are so aggressive, splitting hairs.. instead of tapping the keyboard, get out and tap some ladies/ gentlemen, or just go out and fight some f..ker , test your endurance and speed ffs ... jus saying.. nicely quietly..
Sprinting is complete SHIT compared to fast paced jogging. I have to run after sprinting to feel a real workout. What's optimal is doing fast pace jogging followed by slow paced jogging or walking, to simulate Boxing. The continuous cardio feeling you get from Boxing, CANNOT be duplicated with sprinting LMAO
100% science all facts can’t argue
I do not believe it is possible to change the percentage of fast twitch or slow twitch muscle fibers you have no matter what type of running you do. What you are born with, you are born with. It is like trying to change your eye color.
End up with people who can only fight in spurts with only HIIT.
The best of the best always do the roadwork 🚧.
Makes you slower?? Yes but that’s why you also train explosive/sport specific exercises.
I think Victor made some good points. But the benefits of roadwork are the strength it gives your legs and the mental and spiritual fortitude you develop from maintaining constant motion, especially when fatigued.
I think every fighter has to see what works for them. Sometimes too much roadwork can be bad on the joints and it may sap too much energy and testosterone. I think roadwork is great, but each person should use trial and error to determine how many miles and how many days out of the week they should do it
The only people agreeing with this are the ones too lazy to go run.
Running long miles increases stamina and all round fitness. If you use it properly in the ring of course it’s useful. Victor conte is full of crap lol he believes in his athletes using steroids and been convicted of distributing it and money laundering, this guy gives bad advice 😂🤣
Sprint intervals dont make you faster. Proper sprint training on a track wearing spikes makes you considerably faster..this is true sprinting. If you are doing 20 to 40 second sprint intervals then you aren't really sprinting. Proper sprinting can only be sustained for a few seconds. Roadwork doesn't make you less explosive, it allows you to sustain your explosiveness for longer...meaning if you do roadwork on other days you should do proper sprint training not lazy sprint intervals
your wrong on that
@@animeproductions5866 no he’s not, you don’t even box
@@carlbismar203 i box and done t&f he’s is literally saying interval training doesn’t make you faster which is untrue plyometrics also helps improve explosiveness which will increase speed . If you studied sports science you will know this. He said sprint training but does not specify what method of sprint training interval training is a method of training sprinters and athletes use to improve speed another is pylometrics like I mentioned before. Long distance training does not improve explosiveness as it is done at a moderate intensity using slow twitch fibre which aren’t responsible for explosive movements ,where as in sprint intervals the body uses fast twitch muscle fibres which are used during explosive movements.
I only ran once a week when I was fighting professional and it was me gunning it 3-4 miles at a 5-6 minute pace
Should I go on runs to lose body fat?
The fighters who know what there doing don’t run marathons we run hills!
i cant do road anyway. But i hit the incline of 6 on the treadmill for an hour
I like sprinting up hills. Its easier on your knees than a flat surface
Ali would have laughed at this.
Road work is more for keeping the weight down. Hes right but its still needed 5-8miles a day...2/3 sprint drills a week high intensity and lots of sparring
Tryna lose some body fat should I go on road runs?
@@jordanosborne4383 no, your knees and ankles wont handle pavement most likely if youre exxess weight. if you only have littlebit fat then you propably can run, i would try to find soft surface to run.
@@demonslayer9979 how bout grass like football field ?
@@jordanosborne4383 yes much safer
This guy has probably never boxed a day in his life. The hardest punching boxers in history all did roadwork except for deontay wilder. Boxing doesent only require speed but it requires endurance and stamina, meaning it would be stupid to try and box without doing roadwork. It makes your legs more durable so you wont get tired from prolonged use of your leg muscles in the ring when using explosive footwork
Most modern day professional boxers barley do long distance, like Gervonta Davis, naoya inoue, and deontay wilder. They are the fastest and hit the hardest in there weight divisions and they barley do long distance, they do sprints. If the OG boxers like mike tyson and Ali did sprint training, they would be even faster and hit even harder and still have good stamina.
Theres plenty of other ways to increase stamina and work more of the muscles used in boxing than long distance running
Battle ropes, rowing, sprints, boxing, skipping
Why do you think long distance runner are all super skinny but weak as hell
Tell that to Pacquiao or Tyson who does serious roadwork on how it slowed them down. Roadwork is for building stamina. Developing twitch muscle is whole different part of training. Is that why this guy is famous for being in prison for cheating?
Tyson and pac are natural fast twitch fighters. When they were on the juice they were nearly unbeatable
@@joystickcasa5309 There's no such thing as natural dumb ass. How can they be natural if you say they're juiced? You're a dickhead with no knowledge of sport. Every sporting event is an invention, meaning a learned skill. Otherwise, if you're natural, why even train, just show up.
@@rspcoach619 Pac definitely juiced rofl. 108-154 rofl. Tyson was natural till 1997.
@@moistsquirt1592 Prove it considering there were no positive test nor violation unlike Mayweather. If you can't, have a coke and a smile and STFU. Manny is being tested by VADA. www.businessinsider.com/floyd-mayweather-illegal-iv-manny-pacquiao-fight-2015-9
@@rspcoach619 I don't need evidence to know a cheat when I see one. Usain bolt runs 9.58, and Ben''Juiced to the Gills"Johnson runs 9.79. Doesn't take a genius to see that Bolt is doping, but you're gonna ask e for evidence. Pacman moved up 8 weight divisions, and still was competitive. You are now gonna tell me he is a spectacular once in a lifetime fighter rofl. MAyweathers also a cheat. When did I say he wasnt. He obviously has been taking EPO his entire career, but I have no evidence to prove how he comes on strong in the later rounds. It's all speculation by me, but I don't think either are clean. Andre WArd and Mikey Garcia can be added to that list because they work with Victo Conte rofl. No evidence right. Common sense more like.
That’s why your not a samurai Mr conte the run helps clear the mind !!!
Yeah, just try Victor Conte's secret sauce 😂
Here’s what is a mystery you have Fighters today taking PEDs going to Conte Ariza Herida or others and many barley make it 12 rounds Old School Fighters did road work and train in the gym did no weights and were able to fight 15 round wars without passing out . Salvador Sanchez fought the 15th round like it was the first round so who knows the answer ?
Manny PEDquiao used to work with Alex Ariza. Now works with Justin Fortune another PED Coach
I agree. Sprint intervals is a high intensity workout that'll increase stamina better than jogging 5 miles
bulshit. I run 50sec 400m, and my 1mile is trash. There is a balance for power and stamina. You wanna be explosive, but have decent stamina aswell.
mackinass916 I used to box and had better cardio than your average Joe. I did both long distance and sprints but I was told when running my long distance to run it as fast as possible every time usually 6 mile runs. But sprints wear you down much quicker so I would do them a little less often to recover better. Shit worked.
@@moistsquirt1592 try 100 meters instead
@@moistsquirt1592 roadwork is all endurance unless you're also full on sprinting.
High intensity interval training is more stamina and less endurance.
Muscle stamina/endurance is different from cardiovascular stamina/endurance.
Roadwork forces you to endure and persevere.
I only do 5k 3 times a week first thing in morning, I find it loosens me up then when I do explosive bag work later on that evening feel good and ready
Lol smh all legends do road work period... take any of the fighters he train and put him in the ring wit lomachinko and watch them get they ass beat
This guy knows what he's talking about did you guys listen to his speech before you left comments
Ask Deontay Wilder if road work is useless. He does none, and his legs are like stilts. He has terrible endurance and would beneift from miles of running. Roadwork isn't useless for fighters. Victor knows alot, but he's wrong on that one.
Willie Pep was a very firm believer in road work. He has 229 wins, 11 losses to 9 men. Henry Armstrong fought 27 times in 1937 using a good diet and roadwork. Both gentlemen were without a 'strength and conditioning coach' and more specifically a cheating S&C coach ! Mr. Pep recorded 30 back to back fights for the next two calendars one month out of a body cast [for a fractured vertebrae and a broken leg suffered in a plane crash]. In that two year window, he fought his high risk adversary twice in Sandy Saddler and the [un-filmed] rematch win over 15Rounds [ which is a better *read than watching Roy Jones' and Floyd Mayweather's careers combined because they demonstrated choosing lower risks opposition over a many many calendars]. Mr. Pep hath major historical accolades intertwined inside one comeback [ greater than George Foreman's return and more recently, Tyson Fury's ]. Errol Spence has 24 bouts in S I X Long years. Floyd has 50 bouts many of which are lower risks chosen to deceive the masses, while making more money. For all humans beginning with the Bernie Madoff types that deceive, they plant decay. For athletes and or pugilists, the decay is reaped after the money is mismanaged, stolen, gambled and or spent erroneously, their boxing record stays forever. Vinny Pazienza's comeback is second to Willie's because Willie's was in a time hospitals may have been with lesser resources (?) and the competition Willie went through were more frequent and undoubtedly higher grade than Mr. Pazienza's.
And this comes from a guy who did time for steroid distribution. Listening to this fool talk about roadwork is like getting real estate advice from a homeless person
I run 5 miles I jog then have random sprints
Do your distance run and throw in sprints or stairs, but I think running trails is best and really push when you hit hills.
Pretty sure most athletes DO NOT agree with this guy. So take this video a grain of salt.
Dude looks like Ron Jeremy
Road work has been done since wayy back and it has been done by many greatest boxers of all time like Ali and Mayweather etc. But also high altitude training like sprinting is good for you for condition so both are really good for you. Ones to be explosive and the other to last longer. So it's a win win situation
sprinting isnt a high altitude training.
high altitude training is training in places that are in high altitudes like mountains
Sometimes it's just about running long distances to build up mental toughness and fortitude to finish. This guy looks like he needs the roadwork by the way.
I’m tryna lose some body fat will road runs help?
I love running. But I also loved listening to these brilliant insights as well!
This was true for me . Running long distance never helped my stamina but it did help other things sprints was the best for my stamina
Don't forget that your foundation was built up by long running. You would not get out as much of sprint training if you not have long running behind you.
All the greats did road work that’s been in boxing for decades. Today fighters be all stiff niggas be gassed out by 6 7 rounds especially the heavyweights
Yes, sprint interval is for explosive power...Slow runs don't ramp up power
Lol well this is coming from someone who's probably never ran a mile or done a pull up in his life soo... also all the guy he trains are already elite athletes
I use roadwork mainly for weight loss
Long runs really help me make weight
Short interval sprints push my fitness
Are Burpees a good way to build boxing 🥊 cardio?? Like 2 mins on 1 min rest for 7-8 rounds
GOOD POINTS!!!
SAME IN TENNIS & SOCCOR!!!
SPRINTS ARE 100 % THE TRUTH! ITS ANNOYING TO HEAR IN THE GYM ON A TREADMILL BUT SPRINTS ARE A TRUE WORKOUT.
THIS SCUMBAG IS A FORMER PED DEALER... GO GOOGLE VICTOR CONTE BALCO SCANDAL....
Are you stupid in boxing it is about endurance. Road work gives you the endurance to take punches and push through when you do road work interval training and sprints is part of it.
In boxing you don't just train your body to give punishment. You have to train it to take punishment. The reason why elite athletes train at high altitudes is for low oxygen you idiot. And do it the whole camp. If your fighter is training on high oxygen towards the end of the camp. The guy that is training at higher altitudes is going to be more aerobically fit. Especially if they fight at higher altitudes.
@@roberthollis1962 If you wanna last 12 rounds, then do road work for a UD win. I you want 1 punch ko power, then do sprints and fade in later rounds. If you want both, then do boh
I do both to increase stamina I do the pace everyday, elíptical and stair master. But the pacer is by far the hardest at the pace I run and the amount of time I do It. My endurance has increased a lot.
start using a sled machine and u will see a improvement
I mean it sounds good but 2 fighters debunk these talks in floyd and pacman. Floyd trained whenever he wanted and he ran. Pacman always runs and look what he did. So all I will say is scientifically I wont disagree but performance wise cant say that its 100% either. Remember before all this information in all sports shit was done old school and we have great modern day athletes that competed at a very high level. But then again you have guys like Lebron james that uses all this technology and look what it has done for his career. So maybe you can do both old school and new school.
Pete Crespo just because they ran it doesn’t mean it worked. If they replaced sprints with running who know maybe they’d be better. Most of their work came from sparing many rounds and what they did in the gym.