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Originally Posted by billywest1924
when i origionally posted this thread back in march of 2003 i was trying to gather info for a possible book, not a "training manuel" but a look at what fighters do on a day to day basis. i have since been beaten to the punch and someone else who had the same idea and got their book published before i was even finished, so the idea has since been scrapped. however i found your post to be quite amazing in that since i have been around professional fighters since i was 14, i have trained in thailand, have fought professionally myself, and doing the research for my proposed but now scrapped book i have never seen a training regimen so intense and demanding! which had me come to the conclusion that your either superman, severely overtraining, or your full of shit. if your not superman which to my knowlege at least is a comic book legend, however if you are really training that much your going to have a very, very, short career, and if you are exagerateing your training regimen its unfortunate because you will have would be fighters trying to perform the above regimen which is NOT senseible.
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no shit. I haven't fought since my first fight, but that's how they trained me...Khru Sakasem Kwathawong (formerly Sakasem Fairtex, The Punisher, one of the coolest guys you'll EVER meet) and my personal trainer....Muhammed the Motherfucker.(see my post in Karate weapons-hooligans for reference)
Most of the time, I'm in the 3 classes a week...but when I fight, this is how it goes for at least a month out, and I wouldn't try it any other way. It's okay to be beaten by somebody with more skill, but because your conditioning's not on par?? your cheating yourself. 6 hours a day, 6 days a week, skipping perhaps one extra day a week every now and then, for a month and a half. It's not as bad as it sounds...especially when you like to train...I enjoy it.
But...yeah...you're right, after 3 weeks of this, I was pretty damn sick of it. I guess part of it explains why I haven't fought since...I spent the last year and a half being burned out on muay thai...picked up smoking...have a girlfriend, and am going to college...I don't know if I want to fight again...(I REALLY want to...but there's just too much on my plate right now to even consider it rationally.)
Muay Thai 2-a-days...I did 'em...it almost fucking killed me...but I did them.
My trainers really wanted me to win. One of them worked at my parent's restraunt, and one's wife and daughter works there, so I guess they wanted to push me to make sure I won...or convince me to give up...