over trained

[Britkid]

Bomber Bruno was definitely guilty of this in his big fights in the 80s. I suspect nerves played a part.

[ross]

You can deffinitly fuck the timing of your training up!

Just think of doing a basic excercise like bicep curls. If you do them as hard as you can one day and the next your biceps are sore, you will not be able to do the same amount of effort. Unless you leave them 2 or 3 days, depending on how fit they are already.

They need to have a good rest period before the fight and between weight training and sparring etc.

This is why short notice opponents are shit. Unless they have been active as in a few fights in the year before hand and their last fight not too many weeks ago and have been in the gym ticking over, they will be shit. If they had a weeks notice there will be nothing other than some sparring and pad work to sharpen themselves up that they can do. They will not get any fitness or stamina benefit in any less than two weeks.