HOLLYWOOD, USA ? Having achieved optimum form, Manny Pacquiao is now guarding himself from another boxer?s pitfall ? overtraining.
Fact is, Pacquiao heeded his training team’s request for him not to run uphill at Griffith Park Friday morning, January 11 (Saturday, January 12, Manila time).
?Inistop nila. Baka daw ako ma-overtrain, masunog (They stopped it. They said I might overtrain or get burned out),? said Pacquiao after a two-hour afternoon training session at Wild Card Boxing Club here.
Though he felt recovered from a rigorous workout and sparring session on Thursday, Pacquiao doesn’t want to push his body to its limit with his first defense of the World Boxing Association welterweight crown against Adrien Broner just 8 days away on January 19 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
?I just need to maintain my present condition,? Pacquiao added.
Pacquiao said he will spar for the last time on Saturday, giving head trainer Buboy Fernandez, consultant Freddie Roach, and strength aconditioning coach Justin Fortune the leeway to decide whether it’s going to be for 6 or 4 rounds.
