VICTOR CONTE SAYS ROAD WORK IS USELESS FOR BOXERS

[shoto]

Road work opens up lungs, strengthens legs and mentally toughen your spirit.

[MrDelboy]

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 “.

[redddddd]

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

[bdpchamp]

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.

[victorsr]

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.

[handfloboxingreview]

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.

[CrazyOldWorld]

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

[realdeal]

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.

[kension]

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.

[warriorish]

Tell that to Sal Sanchez, Henry Armstrong, Manny Pacquiao, Etc; science can help but it shouldn’t replace what’s worked for so long.

[aky]

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.

[CarolNaylor]

Don't road work for gawd sake....get better at evading PED tests and take more PED's

[emmah]

Fuck yeah, just take that juice fuck that hard work bullshit

[clintonkinsey]

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??

[lowlowseesee]

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.

[Marshall-ql]

Running is not only for stamina! It Develops you in other ways also! For yall who know what im talking about!

[HomeOfTheBRAVE.]

They don't do road work because at snac they rather have time to have snacks

[tickyul]

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.

[snehalkrishnan]

“Oh yeh and don’t forget the steroids.”
~ Victor Conte

[ipsafacta]

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.