Nerdcore Boxing

My current’ gym’s trainers leave conditioning up to the boxer. They’ll give you a general outline of what they want, but it’s all on you to do it. I’m quite happy with this because I’m a hard worker when it comes to conditioning. My past issues were frustrating since I did everything my trainers asked, but they appeared to be flabbergasted as to my endurance issues. The issue was either not training smart or overtraining. In any case I’m confident I can do a better job of it myself.

My focus is to build strength, maintaining punch power through fatigue and build hand speed. For speed I’m doing plyometrics and lots of double end bag work. In addition to my normal roadwork I’m doing upper body conditioning intervals. My previous trainers heavily focused on lower body and I felt like my upper body didn’t hold up through fatigue as well. Rope climbs, sledgehammer, band training, burpees, and such are all part of my current regiment.

I’m coming off an 8 year layoff from weight lifting. I was a hardcore gym rat for over a decade before getting serious with kickboxing and boxing, then I became disillusioned with the bodybuilding style workouts. I think quitting weight lifting worked for me because I brought in such a good base of strength from my lifting days. I think I’ve lost too much of that strength. So now I’m doing Olympic lifts twice/week, it’s the lowest priority in my training but I do want to build back some strength.