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Boxing: Strength, Speed, Endurance (Russian video)
Below is a video that was posted to this blog once before (in October 2011). Unfortunately, the original video was removed from Youtube.
For those who missed the first entry, the video was filmed in 1981 (yes, over 30 years ago). Within the footage, you will see several Russian boxers training with many exercises that have been popularized again in recent years. You’ll see bag drills, barbell exercises, medicine ball throws, bodyweight movements, and more.
Once again, successful training strategies for competitive fighters have been around for a long time. Those who believe otherwise are those who have failed to look at the past.
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Don’t reinvent the wheel, just realign it. – Anthony J. D’Angelo
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Our coach used to have us do similar drills, except it wasn’t the same exercises. one station would be lateral jumps over a cone, another would be punch-out drills on the heavy bag, another on the double-end, etc.
However I like the exercises at the station. Real good mixture. Thanks for sharing Ross
Thank you for sharing, Ross. This leaves one fundamental question, though. If all that is new is actually old, then is there any room left for innovation (in training) ? If training is fundamentally universal, then does that only leave genetics and desire as variables?
Keith – Just because something has been around for a long time does not mean that everyone knows or applies it. It is more a matter of origin, as opposed to widespread application.
The top clip at 3 minutes looks like a crossfit gym just in black and white LOL, guess is not much new under the sun ….great vids
Interestingly it’s not only the exercises, it’s also how they do those exercises…at 6:51 of part 2… the time they train at each station is 20 sec with 10 seconds break between the stations ( Tabata intervals
??? ) for 3 minutes, totaling 9 stations (9 squares of the scheme), then 1 minute rest (square 10), then repeating the whole cycle twice to model a 3-round boxing match(remember, they didn’t have professional 12 or 15-round matches back then… only 3-round)
these days i watched some boxing video from cuba. and was also very intersting.
this for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhulvfrlPEQ&feature=related
the guy in the top clip speaking russian is Greg glassman, he is explaining everything in the video.
thank you very much Ross, this is awesome, actually without knowing I was training correctly focusing on exploisivity.
Very very nice vid, for lovers
Clearly the Soviets had a more varied training system than their American counterparts as far as boxing in the early ’80′s. I can’t recall seeing many other fighters training by leaping over a pommel horse or even lifting light weights in sports related exercises in the early ’80′s. Weight training is still not accepted in many boxing circles and many trainers and fighters believe they are better off not lifting weights at all. I’ve heard former contender Earnie Shavers did some weight training and I’ve seen clips of Victor Galindez lifting light weights but for the most part in that era and before the weight room was off-limits to fighters, even light weight training. Clearly the Soviets and other Eastern European countries were on to something with their unique training methods given the recent domination by Eastern Europeans in boxing’s heavier weight classes and most notably by the very underrated Klitscho brothers. I do recall Frazier and Foreman beat Soviet fighters in the Olympics either in the finals or semi-finals, but I still have to wonder if many of these Eastern Europeans and Cubans had been allowed to turn professional if they would have flourished in the Seventies and Eighties. Many thought the Cuban Teofilo Stevenson would have given Ali a good match and a lot thought he would have beaten Frazier. Of course the class of 1976 with Sugar Ray Leonard, the Spinks brothers, and I believe Howard Davis Jr., and Willie Randolph all beat Eastern bloc or Cuban fighters but these were the cream of the crop American fighters and arguably the best Olympic team ever assembled.
Whoops, that’s Leo Randolph and not “Willie Randolph.” Sorry but it’s baseball season and I was thinking of the wrong Randolph.
No wonder that nowadays the best boxers in the world are from the former Soviet Union!
Ross, this is why I love your blog. You continue to show simple and diverse ways of training. I love it. Thanks for the post mate.
These guys just revolutionized my Tae Kwon Do “basics” training! Notice how in almost all their drills they are in motion as opposed to standing somewhere and lifting a heavy weight? They are always moving, developing explosive power and coordination. I dare say that old Chinese masters would approve of this as well. I’m stealing it all! Thanks, Ross. I just became a fan.
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