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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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Yeah I'm definitely not complaining about that short notice switch. Ideally you want to see a proper fight after a full camp on both sides, but it's still symmetrical in that chimaev hasn't been training for usman either.
I've always kinda wondered how much fighters prepare for theoretical future opponents VS only preparing for the next specific scheduled opponent. Maybe they've been studying eachother passively this whole time. To some extent all fighters probably do.
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Ya, I bet to some extent they already do. But my concern was cardio, to what level are these fighters training when not preparing for a fight?
I could say for myself well I train 2 hours on my work days, 3-4 hours on my off days always, and so I have certain level of baseline performance. But when I had a race coming up, I started doing much more frequent and faster “balls to the walls” runs in an effort to improve vo2max. And I saw a noticeable improvement in just a short time doing that
But it’s not something that I would enjoy doing, or find myself doing, when not preparing for a race. The only fighters I’ve heard who train crazy hard and stay in “ready for a fight” cardio shape always were Colby Covington and Khabib. I never really heard this about many others, so it’s assumed that most take it a little bit easier when not in a fight camp
So the question is, if so, how much can they truly improve their cardio in just 10 days?
10-19-2023, 03:18 PM
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