2 weeks - How much gas can you add?

deluxeMT · 07-12-2008, 02:07 AM

So I have a fight in 2 weeks. This is not one of those "hay guys, i have a fite in a week and i need some good ways to get real fit!1111" threads. I'm reasonably happy with my conditioning at the moment. However, my question is this, in the two weeks before my fight, am I going to really get any benefit from nailing myself with hard-ass cardio trying to extract as many gas-tank benefits as I can, or am I better taking my foot off the extreme-cardio gas now and being sure I'm 100% recovered for my fight?

Joe Funaro · 07-12-2008, 02:11 AM

2 weeks is more then enough time to rest. Give yourself 5 days of rest (light cardio and drilling) before the fight.

Spend the next 9 days and do 3-4 sets of insane cardio. I'd ***** to fight specific cardio like bag work or better yet sparring/rolling. You wont get too much from it but it will help you know your limits which might help you pace yourself leading to you not being gassed. It wil help mentally more then physically.

Ian Coe · 07-12-2008, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Joe Funaro

2 weeks is more then enough time to rest. Give yourself 5 days of rest (light cardio and drilling) before the fight.

Spend the next 9 days and do 3-4 sets of insane cardio. I'd ***** to fight specific cardio like bag work or better yet sparring/rolling. You wont get too much from it but it will help you know your limits which might help you pace yourself leading to you not being gassed. It wil help mentally more then physically.

Agreed

We train hard up to 5 days out, then light stuff for 2 days and then as long as your weight is ok mong out the last 2 and eat what you want and the last day before the fight, eat lots of green stuff and pasta (again dependant on weight)

deluxeMT · 07-13-2008, 03:37 AM

Yeah I'm fighting someone 5kg heavier than my normal walk-around weight so weight really isn't a big deal. I've been eating really clean lately and it's been leaving me feeling much better, and with more energy (despite generally being a slightly lower carb diet), so I'm just going to stick with that till close toward the fight, then carb up before it.

loafyofbread · 07-13-2008, 11:26 AM

if you are 2 weeks from your fight...you wont gain alot more gas than you already have...

XTrainer · 07-13-2008, 02:19 PM

I tend to alternate (more by necessity than design) between phases of more Ross Enamait/GPP-style workouts and more pure strength/power workouts. I've found it is very easy to recover a little lost GPP in a very short time span with a few intense workouts. Recovering lost strength is more difficult.

If you never had the GPP or strength to begin with, however, I'm not sure how much progress you could make in a couple weeks.

krellik · 07-13-2008, 02:53 PM

You can make a difference. Not a huge difference but still a difference, perhaps that little difference is enough to win you a close fight, push yourself hard as fuck until you have to taper down

deluxeMT · 07-14-2008, 01:07 AM

I'm just going to keep nailing out burpees and other such fun exercises until 5 days out, for some strange reason I seem to recover more quickly from intensely anaerobic exercise like this than from aerobic cardio like running, so I'll stick with that and just nail it.

Ifight4Beer · 07-14-2008, 07:15 PM

Man I seen wrestling coaches burn people out before the state finals. don't go to buck wild the week before your fight. the week before that "If yer all ready in good shape" go hard to get opptimal performance. and don't be seditave the week before just don't kill yerself

Reza Nasri · 08-02-2008, 05:48 AM

of course 2 weeks can make a huge difference. Fitness and gas is like a bird, it flies away easily. You can go from being fit to unfit in a week or two by eating badly not training so of course you can increase gas a lot in 2 weeks! i really wonder about the responses u got here.