Eubank Sr on Training
Posted: 06 Jun 2012, 11:43
"When I was Champion, beach running, hill running and cycling for 45 minutes was preferred to an hour of roadwork, to save my knees for 1) and for 2) to get more blood flowing through my quadricep muscles, like there would be towards the end of a 12-round fight. This was at 6AM, followed by 12 sets of rope-climbing for upper body strength. This was seven days a week.
"I would then train in the PM from either 12 til 2.30 or 2 til 4.30, depending on how I felt. That would consist of my 30-minute stretching program, including backbends and splits for increased range and flex, my 30-minute shadow boxing routine, using my feet and body as well as fists to make me more agile.
"Then 20 rounds of full-contact sparring and/or single-punch padwork and/or heavy bag work and/or speed ball work. Then 20 minutes of rope-jumping, 60 incline sit-ups, 20 medicine ball hits to the mid-section and a further 60 incline sit-ups to finish. This was five days a week.
"Later in the evening for three days a week, I would do step aerobics to burn off my evening meal and keep my bodyweight at 182 lbs. Three days out from a fight, I stopped eating and drinking and continued my general routine. I always sparred the day prior to the fight itself, and always got back into the general routine on the Monday after the Saturday fight night!
"It was amazing really. About every six to eight weeks for about six and a half years I performed in front of the vast majority of the nation in a life-and-death situation before getting into my Range Rover after the fight and driving my way home down to Brighton along the motorways, and never stopping training as outlined above."
"I would then train in the PM from either 12 til 2.30 or 2 til 4.30, depending on how I felt. That would consist of my 30-minute stretching program, including backbends and splits for increased range and flex, my 30-minute shadow boxing routine, using my feet and body as well as fists to make me more agile.
"Then 20 rounds of full-contact sparring and/or single-punch padwork and/or heavy bag work and/or speed ball work. Then 20 minutes of rope-jumping, 60 incline sit-ups, 20 medicine ball hits to the mid-section and a further 60 incline sit-ups to finish. This was five days a week.
"Later in the evening for three days a week, I would do step aerobics to burn off my evening meal and keep my bodyweight at 182 lbs. Three days out from a fight, I stopped eating and drinking and continued my general routine. I always sparred the day prior to the fight itself, and always got back into the general routine on the Monday after the Saturday fight night!
"It was amazing really. About every six to eight weeks for about six and a half years I performed in front of the vast majority of the nation in a life-and-death situation before getting into my Range Rover after the fight and driving my way home down to Brighton along the motorways, and never stopping training as outlined above."
