Deontay Wilder: Daily Routine

Wilder skips the old-school grind in favour of functional training and a mindset that doesn’t take days off.

Like we wrote in Gennady Golovkin’s daily training routine, punching power in boxing is a funny thing. There’s almost a superstitious aura around it — experts, analysts, and boxers alike are divided as to whether you can cultivate punching power, or you’re simply lucky enough to be born with it.

There’s one thing we know for sure though, power has nothing to do with a boxer’s physique. We just have to look at legendary punchers like Mike Tyson, George Foreman and Deontay Wilder to form that conclusion.

Tyson’s dense, muscular body made him look more like a bodybuilder than a boxer at times, while Foreman, especially the 45-year old version, rocked the ultimate dad bod. Then we have Wilder, who sports a leaner figure and lankier frame than most heavyweight boxers.

And yet, like Tyson and Foreman before him, Wilder is regarded as the hardest hitter in the sport today with a 98% knockout-to-win percentage; he has knocked out 41 opponents in the 42 bouts he has won, with 20 of those knockouts coming in the first round.