Tyson's training ~ 1987

[Tom Yum]

I Found this from several different sources. Note Tyson's discipline during the years he was under Cus, early to bed and early to rise.


5am: get up and go for a 3 mile jog
6am: come back home shower and go back to bed
10am wake up: eat oatmeal
12pm: do ring work (10 rounds of sparring)
2pm: have another meal (steak and pasta with fruit juice drink)
4pm: more ring work and 60 mins on the exercise bike (again working those legs for endurance and power)
5pm: floor exercises: 2000 sit ups; 500-800 'dips'; 500 press ups and 500 shrugs with a 30kg barbell and 10 mins of neck exercises. Additional excercises working the biceps, triceps, chest, abs and shoulders.
7pm: steak and pasta meal again with fruit juice (orange i think it was).
8pm: another 30 minutes on the exercise bike
9:30 watch TV and then go to bed.

[bodhisattva]

my training log, circa 1996

3 am. wake up. convince self you won't smoke pot and fall back asleep.
3:02 am smoke pot. Listening to Tool
3:08 am fall back asleep.
10am wake up.
10:01am already convincing self you won't smoke more pot.
10:10am brushing teeth. watching movie.
10:11am packing bong.
12:noon still sleeping, again.
6pm get up, bandpractice at 7pm.
7pm at band practice, smoking pot.
10pm smoking pot after band practice
midnight back home. hitting heavy bag in weird delirium, listening to Tool.
2am, smoking pot. fall asleep. Listening to tool.
3 am, wake up. convince self you won't smoke pot..start listening to Tool...

etc.

it was a good time. it had to end, but it was good at the time. ESPECIALLY the BAND PRACTICE part.

[Tom Yum]

I think Tyson was able to maintain his training schedule because of his relationship with Cus. From what I read, Cus was Tyson's adopted father and spent day in day out training him.

When Cus passed away, Tyson was upset for a long time and he went back to his old ways on the street. It was a parallel to Rocky 3, except in real life Tyson is just now starting to recover.

If Tyson could get ahold of himself, get passionate about boxing (he used to watch black and white films with Cus to learn boxing strategy and style), and live a clean life he could be champ in any fighting venue.

It would make a helluva come back story!

[bbbb]

Hear, Hear...

I think Tyson was able to maintain his training schedule because of his relationship with Cus. From what I read, Cus was Tyson's adopted father and spent day in day out training him.

When Cus passed away, Tyson was upset for a long time and he went back to his old ways on the street. It was a parallel to Rocky 3, except in real life Tyson is just now starting to recover.

If Tyson could get ahold of himself, get passionate about boxing (he used to watch black and white films with Cus to learn boxing strategy and style), and live a clean life he could be champ in any fighting venue.

It would make a helluva come back story!

Goodo. I second that motion. He's a killer!!

[Tom Yum]

Looking at his regiment at the time, looks like he was doing about 4 hrs worth of work related to general fitness & skills training (jogging, excercise bike, sparring, rope skipping, focus mitts) and 2 hours worth of body weight excercises with some weight lifting here and there.

2/3 of his time is spent on boxing related conditioning or skills.
1/3 of his time is spent on resistance training.

If half of his resistance training is with weights, then 1/6 of his total training time involves weight training.

This is Tyson's routine though...depending on one's own abilities and needs, they may need more time weight training or less.

[stang]

Does Tyson still have an appetite for ears?

[Tom Yum]

Let's hope not.

[EmptyneSs]

i wish i could have steak and pasta for lunch and dinner everyday.

[Tom Yum]

What's stopping you?

You can buy inexpensive cuts of steak for $5 per lb. You can line your grill and steak with margarine or low fat butter, cover the steak with a squeeze of lemon and season it with salt, black pepper, beer or BBQ sauce.

Pasta is cheap and easy to cook. Just toss it into a pot of boiling water for 10-15 minutes. Pass it through a strainer and wash it under cool water.

[Tant01]

I Found this from several different sources. Note Tyson's discipline during the years he was under Cus, early to bed and early to rise.
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I recall reading about him a couple years before that. (Right after he became the youngest heavy weight champ) And thinking about how I would break him down and choke him out. Outside his pro fight record I think he's a chump but he picked the right career.

[Tom Yum]

I recall reading about him a couple years before that. (Right after he became the youngest heavy weight champ) And thinking about how I would break him down and choke him out. Outside his pro fight record I think he's a chump but he picked the right career.

I'm going to try and find that Judo book you recommended earlier; looks like a good read!

Tyson spun out of control without guidance. With Cus gone and no one to look after him, his street instincts came back and it etched away at everything he worked for.

[EmptyneSs]

I recall reading about him a couple years before that. (Right after he became the youngest heavy weight champ) And thinking about how I would break him down and choke him out. Outside his pro fight record I think he's a chump but he picked the right career.

tyson may have emotional problems, but he is a monster. if u read up on him u will see that he has been in so many fights outside the ring. these are all well documented, considering he went to court for every single one cause people entice and push him all the time cause they wanna see him go ape shit. he has gone to court so many times for beating up people in the street. in many of the instances, he beat the crap out of more than one person, he would beat the crap out of multiple people at the same time. this dude was a beast. most of the people tyson put down in the streets had sever injuries like broken eye sockets and facial bones. i was reading about this one time he beat up 2 bikers at the side of the road like it was nothing. it was noted that he used kicks to the groin, head butts, and stomps in addition to his boxing. when tyson went to jail nobody fucked with him. tupac went to jail and got assraped, but everyone was afraid of tyson.

tyson has alotta problems, but that has alot to do with the shitty ass childhood he had. plus he aint that bright, there were people scamming him, taking his money, and fucking with him all the time. he didnt know better to keep it cool cause he was emotional, so he would go ape shit when people would press him. supposedly before his last fight, he had gone back to living on the streets, staying in homeless shelters and was taking handouts from whoever would give him anything. mabye that knocked some sense back into him. now he is in some small house in arizona training or something. its quite sad. i hope he can get his shit together.

[AznWarrior]

lmao nobody assraped tupac, tupac(though not as bad as tyson) was a bad mothafu#$% and people liked him.

[Lizard]

Oh man, I watched a clip of mike tyson highlights once... one thing that amazed me was his dodging, in one fight he dodged 6 punches in a row like it was nothing.

And tom, I think you might be cooking your pasta a bit too long... 10 to 11 minutes is nice pasta... but 15!? ... or maybe you just eat denser pasta than me...

[Tant01]

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tyson has alotta problems, but that has alot to do with the shitty ass childhood he had. plus he aint that bright, there were people scamming him, taking his money, and fucking with him all the time. he didnt know better to keep it cool cause he was emotional, so he would go ape shit when people would press him.....
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Yeah, quite honestly he seemed like a nice enough kid. Like he deserved a break as much as anyone else. He does have a mean streak though. We only need to look at a few of his first round KO's to see that he has some ability in the ring too... His pro fight record is among the best.