Pacquiao picks up on roadwork
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 13 Oct 2011
World Boxing Organization welterweight kingpin Manny Pacquiao began to pick up what he started in the Philippines by plunging in serious training both inside the gym and on the road.
After two days at the Wild Card Gym owned by trainer Freddie Roach consisting of sparring Monday and stamina-building conditioning regimen, Pacquiao, who is readying himself to defend his 147-pound belt against Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez next month, visited the mountainous Griffith Park Wednesday where he will do his daily road grind to make up for what typhoons denied him in Baguio City. Supervising the early morning run was strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza with assistant trainers Buboy Fernandez and Nonoy Neri assisting.
Also joining the 20-minute early morning run was younger brother and former fighter himself Bobby Pacquiao, who met the pound-for-pound king and his favorite pet Pacman atop the hill.
?It was a good run. Manny showed no sign of rustiness despite four days of inactivity on the road starting when we left Manila last Saturday,? Ariza said in an overseas interview with this writer. ?He?s in high spirits. I really don?t see any problem putting him in a very fighting shape comes November 12,? the 26-year-old former baseball player in his hometown Bogota Colombia, said. ?he?s always ahead of everybody even in scaling the hills.?
?As Freddie and I have been saying, the purpose of this L.A. phase of preparations is to pickup on strength training we were not able to achieve in Baguio, but as I see Manny responds to what we?ve lined up for him to do, we?ll have no problem,? Ariza, who claimed he used to box an amateur but didn?t excel in it, asserted.
?You know what? I think he will be ready to fight this coming Saturday,? Ariza, a degree holder in nutritional science,? assured. ?I?m not kidding, with the way I see him focused on training, he?ll be ready anytime climb the ring anytime this week.?
?Manny is getting stronger and stronger everyday. He?s getting faster and faster. His condition is getting better and better, ?Ariza observed. ?We have not and will not encounter any hitches, in fact, in all aspect of his preparedness program.?
Ariza said though that with still four weeks in L.A. and another week in Las Vegas, his only worry is for Pacquiao to get burnt out. ?But we have already addressed that problem even before we started in our preparations. Getting burnt out is out of the question. Getting bored because of length of the camp? No problem, too,? he said. ?At this stage of our program, I believe we have covered all the bases. We?ve revved up the motor so to speak. All we have to do is keep the car running,? he said.
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