Rocky Marciano: How to Train Like a Champion

Training regimes to become champion combat athletes differ from from fighter to fighter, but some take things to the extreme. Some like Rocky Marciano, the only heavyweight champion in history to retire undefeated.

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Proof that greatness comes from hard work, *talent only gets you so far.*

[tiny_tim]

He is literally the definition of, "built different".

[mikecesa]

Rocky was a modern gladiator. in Italy, near the south, I saw a few Italians built and similar to Rocky that were fisherman, cement/tile guys and farmers. 2 thousand years of that kind of hard work builds a Rocky Marciano.

[inhibited]

Rocky met his wife at a dance or a dance club. My aunt was a musician at various clubs. She saw Rocky Marciano at least once while she was playing. She said he was the only guy she saw drinking milk. All the other guys were drinking liquor.

[seniordavidmanderson]

Rocky Marciano's legacy is not that he was just undefeated, but how he was undefeated. He overcame cuts, knockdowns, trailing late in fights, and more. His will is unquestioned. When you look at the greatest heavyweights to ever reign over the most prestigious title in all of sports, the greats are near-mythical figures that would give everything to win, men that had an indomitable spirit to go along with skill. When you think of guys like that, you think of Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Holmes, Holyfield and yes, Rocky Marciano, who undoubtedly etched his name among them. So let the revisionist run their mouths about how he was too short, how he was just a brawler, how his competition was weak etc. In the end, no other heavyweight champion has ever retired undefeated and I doubt anyone else ever will.

The one-man that did it is always standing and his name is Rocky Marciano!

[drlobomalo]

It's unusual to retain muscle mass and strength with such an extreme training regimen. There's the aerobic vs. anaerobic tradeoff. And this was in the days before anabolic steroids. Rocky usually isn't given credit for being the amazing physical specimen he was.

[jonidelapaternal]

Squat, deadlift, shoulder press, jumrope, heavybag, pull ups, pushups, runnig and shadonboxing and meet diet and no beer no smoking no junkfood. This is the perfect training

[seniordavidmanderson]

Rocky was always so nice and humble. He never trash talked his opponents and always praised their fighting abilities before he broke them, he let his fist do the talking.

[bravobravoh]

His legs were all muscle. The power came from the ground up.

[slamdunktiger]

His record speaks for itself, simply the greatest. His character was his greatest asset.

[dannyburch]

And Still the Heavyweight Champion of the world Rocky Marciano 49n0 R.I.P Champ.

[joemoschetta]

the rock not just power and guts but all heart

[tjgallagher]

Any great heavyweight boxer can retire undefeated but only one could do it and knockout every opponent he ever faced at least once and then retire undefeated!
And that was the Rock and no one else!

[anthonylombardo]

I believe his training & focus was the key to his success.

[darrellowings]

Rocky is actually underrated. Generations don't realize how unique he was.

[seniordavidmanderson]

🐂 Marciano's monastic monk like year round daily runs and 3/5 month preparation per fight was unprecedented. Never seeking refuge in a clinch and couldn't be hurt he broke spirits. Rocky beat them up, rearranged their bone structure and knocked them out. It was a hellish experience fightin the Rock as he was so damned destructive 🏁

[potata]

The way to beat rocky is pretty simple. You just got to wait until round 100 when he starts to lose steam.

[ddwfw]

The day I found out he was my relative it was so strange, I was still a kid and I didn't know anything about boxing so I thought rocky balboa was my relative since I had just seen rocky movies 😂 a lot of men on the marchigiano (marciano) family were guys you don't wanna mess with
Love from Italy!

[Small_child_punter]

His an example of being great by training like a machine. He wasn't even a boxer but made a name for himself. That's badass.

[EvanThomson.mp]

My grandads brother was best friends with rocky while he was in the army 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸