Tim Tszyu’s crazy boxing training drills revealed
He’s been labelled the fittest athlete in Australia, and Tim Tszyu has revealed his rare gift for enduring physical punishment. EXCLUSIVE PICTURES
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The first time he sprinted up the stairs at Como, Tim Tszyu managed the climb four times before his body gave way and he was dry heaving.
In preparation for his fight against Jeff Horn, Tszyu pushed his body to the limit and managed to get through six sprints in one go.
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“I used to do six of these hill sprints, now I’m doing 10,” Tszyu said.
It is yet another method of torture he has found to inflict upon himself as he chases a world title.
“It’s one of the stairs that just keeps going up and up, in Como, and six is quite difficult,’ he said.
“And then I went straight to 10, and I sort of was able to push myself and not have a problem with it.
“Before the Jeff Horn fight, I said during the COVID times I became obsessed, obsessed about becoming better and doing things different.
“And that obsessive mindset has remained with me, it’s at the forefront, just wanting to become better and better and having a challenge to wake up to and getting up to every morning.
“The first time I ever did those hills, I did it four times. And literally your legs are just shaking non-stop.
“I put my partner through it. I put a few of my mates through it, a few of the boys in the gym. And it’s tough.
“Gradually over time, it doesn’t actually become easier, it’s always hard, but you’re just able to go through it. You’re just able to break through those demons in your mind.
“It’s about 300 steps, maybe a bit more, and it’s a sprint uphill. It’s quite intensive.
“The first few times I did it, you get to a stage where your heart rate is that over the moon that you are feeling like you need to vomit.
“You can walk it up there, but if you’re doing it at the pace that I’m doing it, it’s not easy that’s for sure.”
Tszyu’s promoter Matt Rose believes the boxer is the fittest athlete in Australia.
Watching him work through a gruelling session in his Rockdale gymnasium certainly adds weight to the claim.
It’s not that Tszyu will push himself to the point of breaking during the session, but how quickly he recovers to then start again.
From smashing a tyre with a sledge hammer to squat jumping with a steel drum to pushing his resisting trainer Igor Goloubev up and down the gym, Tszyu routinely reaches the point of utter exhaustion, before he somehow recovers his breathing by the time the 40-second timer goes off and he’s on to the next task.
“We’ve been actually juggling these medicine balls, three kilograms, three of them at once, that’s something new,” Tszyu said.
“During training he has been putting weights on my face, on my head, and I’ve been doing defence work.
“My coach is quite old school, he brings some engineering into boxing.
“This is probably the hardest part of the program because it‘s just long, long days, hot sessions, putting your body through hell.
“But once you get closer and closer to the day, you start going a little bit less hard.
“This is where the hard yards are, this is where you’re getting the fun.”
Tszyu is preparing for his second stadium fight of the year, on December 16 against Bowyn Morgan at Parramatta’s Bankwest Stadium.
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Having disposed of Horn in a clinical eight-round operation, Tszyu plans to do a similar job on Morgan (21-1, 11KO) before challenging super-welterweight world champions Jermell Charlo and Patrick Teixeira.
And there is no physical challenge Tszyu (16-0, 12KO) will decline in his quest to top the mountain.
“There’s no limit, there’s no limitations, but you’ve got to do it in a in an appropriate and smart manner,” he said.
“I’m smarter now. I’m learning more about my body and the way I can react to my body and what I can do better.
“Each fight, the bigger the fight is, the more you learn. And right now I feel like since I’ve just won, the improvement that I’ve had and confidence, is sky high.
“I just I feel like I’m a completely different fighter just in terms of my composure, my calmness, my ability to see, my ability to read and my ability to understand my body and understand boxing is again, as I said, it has skyrocketed.”
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