: Kristian Prenga lashes out at Simon Jordan over Anthony Joshua conspiracy theory<\/a><\/p>\nBlacklock was keen to focus on the fact that Fury lost around 10 stone after he ballooned in weight between his 2015 victory over Wladimir Klitschko and his 2018 return against Sefer Seferi.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’ve got to remember the guy put 10 stone of fat on over about a two-and-a-bit-year period from the Klitschko fight,\u201d Blacklock told SPORTbible.<\/p>\n
The coach also described Fury as the most professional fighter he has ever worked with, adding that fighters in lower weight divisions struggle to keep up with the 37-year-old on long-distance runs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe guy’s an endurance athlete,\u201d Blacklock added.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can outrun any of these guys. The guys who come on training camps with Tyson don’t realise how hard it is to keep up with him in training. None of the heavyweights ever keep up with him on the running, nowhere near him. There’s a gulf between him and the next heavyweight. The middleweights struggle to keep up with him. We had a couple of undercard fighters, and they had to absolutely kill themselves to keep up with him on the run. I’m a good runner, and I’ve got to be absolutely killing myself to keep up with him for three miles. When he wants to do a big one of five or six miles, I can’t keep up with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘It wouldn’t really be beneficial for his boxing’<\/p>\n
Blacklock continued, describing how it would not be beneficial for Fury\u2019s boxing career for him to become ripped and further reduce his body fat percentage, despite trimming down ahead of his most recent bout.<\/p>\n
He explained: \u201cHe actually leaned up a little bit for this fight. He got in better shape and was a good four or five pounds lighter than he was for the last fight because it’s a back-to-back training camp and he’s just continuing the process. For him to be ripped up would be a different kind of process that wouldn’t really be beneficial for his boxing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you want him to get lean and lose as much fat as possible, you\u2019d have him in a calorie deficit, but he wouldn\u2019t perform as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fitness expert insisted that Fury lifts the same weights as more aesthetically built heavyweights, such as his training partner Mark \u201cThe Warchief\u201d Ahondjo.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s not that he physically isn’t capable of doing anything that the guys who look more athletic can do. He still is quite athletic, so it’s almost like an illusion really.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘He swears it helps him’<\/p>\n
It was also revealed that Fury did not employ a nutritionist for his most recent camp, with Blacklock advising him on supplementation and recovery.<\/p>\n
The fitness coach detailed how Fury\u2019s diet was made up mostly of clean, simple foods such as fruit bowls, toast and eggs, and good protein and carbohydrate sources, as well as magnesium and zinc to maximise his body\u2019s output.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn’t have a specific diet for the Wach fight, but he didn’t overindulge,\u201d Blacklock added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese heavyweights consume huge calories.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of these guys will be on 5,000 calories a day, and they’re losing weight, so Tyson will weigh himself quite regularly. That way, he knows which way he’s trending and, obviously, if weight starts coming off too fast, that’s an indication that you’re not eating enough. We had a rough goal weight of what we wanted him to be for this fight, and he was pretty much slap bang where he wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blacklock continued, explaining how Fury even jokes that an added layer of fat around his midriff helps soften the blow when body punches land on his stomach.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s got that little bit of loose flesh around his stomach and he swears it helps him. It’s like a little cushion when he gets punched. He swears he doesn’t get hurt to the body. I’ve watched him do body sparring and he lets people tee off on him, literally tee off on him. He doesn’t get hurt to the body, he just laughs at them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fury is expected to face Joshua later this year, with Blacklock set to be part of his team for what is arguably the biggest fight in British boxing history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury\u2019s long-time strength and conditioning coach has explained why the \u2018Gypsy King\u2019 isn\u2019t ripped like his heavyweight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6565,2560,101,8865,6901,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-721977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-spotlight","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}