Professional boxer runs 14:26 for 5k

I heard that one of the workouts the Klitschko brothers would do was 12x 800m in sub 3min with 1min rest. And they were in the heavyweight class.

Here is an article where they refer to it as " running 12 x 800m sprints, under three minutes, with a minute’s rest in between" lol, I wouldn't call it a "sprint" but I think that is still impressive for such big dudes

http://billycboxing.com/johnstonbrown/joshua-vs-klitschko-predictions/

Benson Masya is laughing at this guy’s 5km time.

Sorry you’re slow wrote:

all soccer players can run 4:30 wrote:

Sure. It should be easy to provide that proof. Boxing is not running.

You must be quite the “runner” if you think breaking 17 or 18 is some great athletic achievement worthy of suspicion. Anyone with a lick of talent who is doing a lot of endurance training and is not overweight can run that. I basically stopped running cold turkey and got intro strength training, put on 25 pounds and 10 months later still ran low 17s on a whim (had been in the 14s before).

I agree, 17 min 5k for a world class lightweight boxer is basically a minimum requirement in my mind. Those dudes have body types pretty close to distance runners and they have to train for 12 round fights because they often lack the knockout power required to get a KO. So they are training to fight for 36 minutes each time, they have to have insane aerobic conditioning for that.

This dude with the 14:26 though, that's super impressive.

WWE mann wrote:

pugi list wrote:

Nope. Ever see boxers do road work? Most of them never do more than the hunched shadow box shuffle with their hood up. That's not enough to break 20 for most.

Sorry but every boxer I know who takes the sport seriously (not necessarily high level but passionate amateurs) have no trouble breaking 18, the majority break 17. A “boxer” who can’t break 20 isn’t taking his training seriously, at least not cardio.

I have a vague recollection from reading a race recap in the early 1980s (probably in the "Running Times") that former heavyweight champ Larry Holmes ran a 5 mile race in Easton, Pennsylvania in the low-30:00s.

Tito Ortiz in training would sub 20 @ 200lb . When I was heavier this is what would inspire me to start running.

That is MMA which slower, for boxing arm cadence carries over to running. Mexican guys I train with are boxers doing ,15-16 min ,,5k in their prime

Is this the same thing as Rip Hamilton saying he runs 2 miles every day at 4:30 pace with his dog. Then when they put him on a track in spikes he ran 4:52. I think that's impressive for an NBA player but other sports athletes often exaggerate their running ability.

What makes the feat impressive is the fact that he's got both poles of the fight-or-flight antinomy covered.

Primo Numero Uno wrote:

Is this the same thing as Rip Hamilton saying he runs 2 miles every day at 4:30 pace with his dog. Then when they put him on a track in spikes he ran 4:52. I think that's impressive for an NBA player but other sports athletes often exaggerate their running ability.

Reminds me on tennis player Murray claiming to be able to run a 52s 400m, lol. Even better was his coach, who claimed that he could run a 400m time of around 50s, as well as do 30 pull ups and leg press over 200kg.

Sure, the leg-press any tennis pro can do except maybe extremely fragile ones, the pull-ups he can do cos of strong arms from tennis and being lighter than other pros, but a 400 in 50-52s? That's only 5s off the Olympic qualifying standard...

Sorry you’re slow wrote:

all soccer players can run 4:30 wrote:

Sure. It should be easy to provide that proof. Boxing is not running.

You must be quite the “runner” if you think breaking 17 or 18 is some great athletic achievement worthy of suspicion. Anyone with a lick of talent who is doing a lot of endurance training and is not overweight can run that. I basically stopped running cold turkey and got intro strength training, put on 25 pounds and 10 months later still ran low 17s on a whim (had been in the 14s before).

Huh? My daughter runs CC for a high school in a state with a population of about 13 million where the boys and girls teams not long ago both won the state team championships in the largest schools division and the boys team has only a handful of runners regularly under 18 minutes with a couple stars who can just dip under 16 minutes.

There are 100 kids on the girls team and 100 on the boys team.

This is one of the premiere running programs in the region with frequent scholarship winners, often to DI.

Do you reside in a state identified by the abbreviation PED?

This seems like a contradiction. How are all of these 16-18 min runners earning D1 scholarships?

*stipe wrote:

newredsun wrote:

Huh? My daughter runs CC for a high school in a state with a population of about 13 million where the boys and girls teams not long ago both won the state team championships in the largest schools division and the boys team has only a handful of runners regularly under 18 minutes with a couple stars who can just dip under 16 minutes.

There are 100 kids on the girls team and 100 on the boys team.

This is one of the premiere running programs in the region with frequent scholarship winners, often to DI.

Do you reside in a state identified by the abbreviation PED?

This seems like a contradiction. How are all of these 16-18 min runners earning D1 scholarships?

Comprehension is tested on your SAT. Study accordingly. A couple stars on both the boys and girls teams most every year x years equals a boatload of recruits over the years, dozens over a decade.

this is pretty awesome, but wouldn't it be a little more beneficial that all boxers or mma athletes train as 800m runners? that'll give them enough strength to punch and kick while also having the endurance to go half an hour

newredsun wrote:

*stipe wrote:

This seems like a contradiction. How are all of these 16-18 min runners earning D1 scholarships?

Comprehension is tested on your SAT. Study accordingly. A couple stars on both the boys and girls teams most every year x years equals a boatload of recruits over the years, dozens over a decade.

"Boatloads"

Um, you guys know he didn't actually run this, right?

Huh? My daughter runs CC for a high school in a state with a population of about 13 million where the boys and girls teams not long ago both won the state team championships in the largest schools division and the boys team has only a handful of runners regularly under 18 minutes with a couple stars who can just dip under 16 minutes.

There are 100 kids on the girls team and 100 on the boys team.

This is one of the premiere running programs in the region with frequent scholarship winners, often to DI.

You are confused:

Nobody wins a boys large school state title in a state with 13M with "only a handful of runners under 18".

Girls, not boys teams win state titles with runners under 18:00.

Not sure where 16min guys are getting D1 scholarships. I graduated high school 13 years ago and American running has greatly improved since then at all levels.

No one was getting a D1 scholarship at 16min. May at 15:30 but a very small one and at any school contending for NCAA's you'd be a walk on.

I don't know what you define as premier. But on a fast course, most "premier" teams have numerous guys who can run under 16. My team was a top team in California my senior year. We had at least 25 guys who could go sub 18. The top 5 on our JV team could all go sub 17 and several of the frosh-soph team who weren't good enough for varsity as well. We were a good team for sure and had several guys go D1 but there were better programs even in our region.

newredsun wrote:

Sorry you’re slow wrote:

You must be quite the “runner” if you think breaking 17 or 18 is some great athletic achievement worthy of suspicion. Anyone with a lick of talent who is doing a lot of endurance training and is not overweight can run that. I basically stopped running cold turkey and got intro strength training, put on 25 pounds and 10 months later still ran low 17s on a whim (had been in the 14s before).

Huh? My daughter runs CC for a high school in a state with a population of about 13 million where the boys and girls teams not long ago both won the state team championships in the largest schools division and the boys team has only a handful of runners regularly under 18 minutes with a couple stars who can just dip under 16 minutes.

Try reading that sentence out loud without taking a breath.

What sort of times do female boxers run?

I ran in college and boxed as an amateur in New York. I had 1 fight at light heavyweight (