Before the lecture Friday coach lays out his simple philosophy:
- Run a LOT
- Spar a LOT
- Train hard
- Then spar and run a lot more
He wants me to have 40-50 rounds of sparring minimum before this fight. I already have logged 11 and at the rate we’re going traveling to gyms for partners, I’ll make 40 no problem. If we schedule some extra trips I should be able to get 50+.
We’re doing organized sprint work Saturdays and he wants me to do steady runs all the other days but Thursday, where he says I should start building up for the organized hill runs.
I run three 8 minute miles right now, but he wants me to push towards 7 minute miles daily. He says a good boxer can do 6 min miles (personally I’m skeptical at how many could, but I’m all for being ambitious).
Also he wants to organize a few long hill runs before the fight and a 5 mile run. The 5 mile run is to build mental toughness he says. Coach says boxers get up at 5 AM (er well, 7 AM in my case) to run every morning because it builds the mental discipline to get up when you get knocked down in the ring. Sounds good to me.
