Greatest Ever Boxing Workouts - including Mike Tyson, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, Roberto Duran Kindle Edition

I have been an enthusiastic fan (both as a spectator and an active participant) of numerous combat sports (Boxing, Kickboxing, Mixed Martial Arts, and Wrestling) and martial arts (Judo, Jujitsu, Karate-Do, Kenjutsu, and Tanto-Jutsu) for more than 55 years. I am always interested in different fitness routines and I loved the first book (Workouts from Boxing’s greatest Champs by Gary Todd) and I am happy to see he also wrote this follow up (Greatest ever boxing workouts by Gary Todd) volume.This 184 page soft cover book follows the same format as the first volume. I have to admit that I was not familiar with many of the boxers because some of them fought mostly in other countries; nevertheless, I found this book interesting and informative. The book gives a short bio of the author which also includes the country he is from, date of birth, how many wins and losses and titles he won. It than has a short question and answer section along with the actual workout routine of the boxer. I found it interesting that many boxers had other hobbies they liked such as Golf and swimming etc.Some of the boxers in this volume includes: Anthony “The Man” Mundine, Antonio “Magic Man” Tarver, Danny “The Green Machine” Green, Curtis Cokes, “Gentleman” Jim Watt, “Irish” John Duddy, “Iron” Mike Tyson, Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns, “Irish” Micky Ward, Roberto “Hands of stone” Duran, Manny “The Pacman” Pacquiao, “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather, JNR and many other boxers.Rating: 4 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Tactical Principles of the most effective combative systems)

This will be a quick review as the book is simple and straightforward in its approach. The author interviewed 30+ boxers, and each chapter corresponds to a boxer. A few of these boxers are household names, e.g. Tyson, Duran, Pacquiao, and Mayweather, but others may or may not be known to those who aren’t fight fanatics.Each chapter consists of three sections. The first and longest of each is an overview of that boxer’s career, but it’s the other two sections that are most relevant to the book’s title and theme. One of these sections is an interview that asks a series of 14 questions about how the respective boxer organized his training day, and the other is a description of the boxer’s workouts (typically there was more than one workout—i.e. sparring v non-sparring days.)If you’re a big boxing fan, this book will be interesting to you particularly for some of the insights about the boxers. The author is clearly knowledgeable in that regard. If you are mostly interested in the book from a fitness perspective, and seek to learn about working out for combative sports, it’s of decidedly less value. It still has some fascinating information, but you’ll probably find it tedious and of limited usefulness. The question and answer section elicits answers from one word to a couple sentences and the workouts are a page each. What is fascinating is how similar the day in the life of a boxer is, and, specifically, how standardized workouts are. What I mostly found intriguing was when someone stuck out as having a different mode of operating. For example, most started their days very early (often going back to sleep after roadwork) but a few were clearly night owls. One can also see a little of how approaches have shifted between the earliest fighters and the ones active until recently.There are plenty of photographs in the book, but they are the only graphics. There isn’t much else by way of ancillary matter. (i.e. there is a section of pictures of the author with various boxers, but that—of course—is primarily of interest to the author.)In one sense the book is quite limited and tedious, but it’s also interesting to see how thirty different fighters answered the exact same pallet of questions. There is some insight into nutrition, sleep schedules, optimal time for workouts, etc. However, the book doesn’t drill deep.If you’re a fight fan, fascinated by boxers and their careers, I’d recommend this book. For those who are buying it thinking they’ll get some insight into how to prepare as a boxer, I’d say said insight will be extremely limited. That said, the book isn’t much of a time investment, and so if you can get it cheap you may find it of some benefit.

This book has some good insights into fighters. It has slightly different workout information than what I've read on the internet as well. For example in this book it says Tyson did 400 push ups and 400 squats throughout his training but I've never read that online before. And for example, Mayweather jr. says he slept 11 hours a day haha.

This is an awesome book! I though that it would have the work outs of the boxers but it is much more. It detail the fighters, tells about a typical day and then goes into their workouts. It's really cool to see their stories.

As a boxing fan, this is an interesting book. You get to learn about fighters and fights that you've never seen. You also get to reminisce about fighters and fights that you have seen. Seeing training rituals is a good addition.

I rated this book based on detail, very few men get the opportunity to capture these finer details in a boxers life.

Fun to read to see what the pros do while in the gym, but this certainly won't teach you a boxing workout.....if you're looking for that, go to a gym. Other than that, good boxing book.

Great Book helps you understand the hard work that all these athletes had to go through to get to where they are. A very good blueprint to follow for every ameteur boxer who has aspirations to get to the top of boxing.

This is the second book i have read from this author. Although the first seemed more in depth i have found this book to be equally as interesting as the first.Great insights into championship boxers to how they eat and live with some interesting information to the fighters themselves as people.I highly recommend any boxing fans or fitness enthusiasts to get and read this book for some inspiration or just out of curiosity.

Whilst the written information is good, the quality of the pages is disappointing and only the cover has any colour

Its a decent little book but very brief, it has many boxers in it but not enough content on their training regime.. I would prefer less boxers and a more in depth look at their prep for fights.. You couldn't use this book as a serious way to gain info to prepare yourself, its more of a casual fun read and shouldnt be taken seriously.

Compared to the first book this is quite poor and this is due to the very small size of the book and also the print which is much poorer in quality. If the book size and print were the same as the first book then this would have been 5 stars.

Excellent