P3 Boxing Oy Currently Visiting TKO GYM

Currently visiting TKO GYM are P3 Boxing from Finland, conditioning some of their top fighters.

You can find more information about them from their website www.p3boxing.com

This is what they had to

 say about TKO and its High Altitude Camp

"P3 Boxing Oy is a managerial & promotional professional boxing company located in Finland. In Finland we stage around 6 evens per year.

 During the years we have been prepared our fighters in TKO Gym "Jim's place". Every time we have worked here, we have got extremely good results in coditioning before the sparring period wich we are doing home in Finland.

 I can warmly recommend TKO Gym for all the professional boxers for the basic conditioning period.

These P3 Boxing fighters have trained in TKO Gym:

 EX-European Champion, Amin Asikainen 25-2(17KO)

 

Juho Tolppola, European Title Challenger, Light 

Welterweight 22-5-1(9KO)

 

And our prospects: Edis Tatli 7-0, Niko Jokinen 3-0 among others"

Nicky Cook Prepares at TKO GYM

Come On Nicky!!

No new comer to TKO GYM is world champion Nicky Cook and Trainer Paul Cook. Presently preparing for his next fight Nicky will spend the next three weeks training at high altitude. After filming Nicky running a gruelling 10 miles 2200 meters above sea level, its not hard to realize why he is world class. His pace didn't drop as he ran around the Mount Tedie at just below freezing temperatures. Boxing is truly a sport of stamina fitness and technique, combining these three necessities is what makes a world champion perform like Nicky.
The high altitude runs begin just below Tedie, and the athletes pace themselves as they hit some magnificent landscapes, and hard gruelling hills. The run takes them around the Tedie and through the well know canyon, home to the popular tourist attraction Devils Rock. As they hit the green belly, the temperatures drop, and hit the athlete hard. The air is extremley thin, with a lower oxygen count, attacking the boxers lungs and normal fitness levels. The trainers at TKO continue to push the athletes and once on the ground there´s no turning back.
This is just one of the extreme training techniques you will endure at TKO GYM Tenerife, you can also find more information about the TKO gym and Nicky Cook on the Team Cook Website.
The gym accommodates athletes with 5 star luxury, a private pool, Jacuzzi, private grounds, and first class hospitality. If you are looking for a new level to take your training, contact TKO for information on High Altitude training and Camps.
www.tkogymtenerife.com

Thaer Al Shayei - High Altitude Tenerife

Thaer Al Shayei has recently been training at high altitude

with Team TKO. Brought up in Cardiff, South Wales Thaer entered the ameture boxing circuit aged 

eighteen. After a tough upbringing on the streets of Cardiff he was inspired by Prince Nazeems thirst for the sport. He began training and entered the ring aged twenty, winning his first bout on points. After experiencing the intensity of the sport he began fighting through the ranks of the Welsh amateurs. Tragedy struck just four years later when a serious car accident left him with a damaged knee. Doctors advised him against the sport but he refused to step away. Thaer managed to strengthen his knee and with determination trained through the probelm. Close friends Craig Kennedy and Louis Patterson encouraged Thaer, and helped him reach his fitness level, ready to fight again. Thaer has since fought another 5 times but unfortunately missed the ABA last year due to personal issues. He is now ready for his next fight in March and has completed his 2 week high altitude camp training with Team TKO in Tenerife. His fitness level has improved dramatically and we can see him again chasing the ABA title, maybe even entering the professional ranks. Team TKO would like to wish him the very best for his fight in March, and hope to see him again training at TKO GYM Tenerife.

Thaer Al Shayei - 

"I really enjoyed the TKO camp, it has been both physically and mentally challenging. It has given me understanding of high altitude training, and how it hugely improves your fitness and stamina. I now feel more ready than ever, and am entering the ring at my highest level of confidence. A big thankyou to Team TKO, and the support and understanding they have given me"

Times Amateur Boxing Club and TKO GYM Tenerife

Founded in 1927, the Times Amateur Boxing Club has been at the centre of the local Kings Cross community and wider Islington and Camden folklore since establishing itself in the area in 1958, with a membership in excess of 300 people (ages 8 - adult). Throughout this period the club has earned a strong reputation for helping young people in the area achieve personal and public success, including a number of noted champions. The main focus of the club remains to support young people of all backgrounds and sporting standards to gain fitness, confidence and self-discipline through sport and to help them achieve their full potential.

“Times boxing club was the first amateur club to stay at the TKO gym in Tenerife. The first visit was back in Sept 2005 where twenty two boxers and three coaches were given the chance to sample the five star facilities what would usually only be on offer to professional boxers. On the day of arrival we were met at the airport by the owner Jimmie Yellop, we were picked up and driven to the accommodation, first impression was unbelievable some of the kids said they felt like royalty, each morning we were woken at 7.00am by our host Jimmie either singing at the top of his voice or banging a saucepan with a wooden spoon. once ready off on our morning run, every day the runs are different from steep hills to beach runs with added breathtaking scenery. and not forgetting mount Teide, each run would normally take 1 hour then back to the gym, time to relax round the swimming pool or in the 8 berth Jacuzzi, mid afternoon we would have sparing and around 6pm another session this time skipping, pads, sit ups and general circuit training. what we found with this trip was how the boxers bonded with each other, and the friendship increased by 100% .every one enjoyed it so much we are on our fifth trip there this September 2008.   Times amateur boxing club would like to say a big thank you to Jimmie Yellop for giving us the opportunity to train at his gym .”

Train at the TKO Gym in Tenerife

Fed up with training on these long winter evenings in Britain? Then why not take a look at the promotional video of TKO's gym in Arona, Tenerife.

Boxers, Managers and Trainers know the importance of decent training facilities, but finding facilities abroad is hard to come by. Managers and trainers who nurture future Champions need to have the very best, with warm weather and a high altitude environment to prepare their fighters and have every opportunity to achieve their Title and financial goals.

Top British boxing trainer, Johnny Eames of the T.K.O. gym now has the solution, with his very own training camp in Arona, Tenerife which provides the very best in all round training facilities. A state of the art boxing gym and high-tec facilities set in the beautiful all year warmth and high altitude of Tenerife.

What is High Altitude Training?

Altitude training traditionally referred to as altitude camp, is the practice by some endurance athletes of training for several weeks at high altitude, preferably over 2,500 m (8,000 ft) above sea level, though more commonly at a lower altitude due to the lack of availability of a suitable location. At this altitude the air still contains approximately 20.9% oxygen, but the barometric pressure and thus the partial pressure of oxygen is reduced.[1][2]. More common nowadays is the use of an altitude simulation tent, altitude simulation room, or mask-based hypoxicator system where the barometric pressure is kept the same, but the oxygen content is reduced which also reduces the partial pressure of oxygen. Such devices have enabled different altitude training techniques including Live High, Train Low, or the practice of merely performing occasional exercise sessions at altitude.


Depending very much on the protocols used, the body may adapt to the relative lack of oxygen hypoxia in one or more of a number ways such as increasing the mass of red blood cells and hemoglobin[3], and non-hematolological responses [4]. Proponents claim that when such athletes travel to competitions at lower altitudes they will still have a higher concentration of red blood cells for 10-14 days, and this gives them a competitive advantage. Some athletes live permanently at high altitude, only returning to sea level to compete, but their training may suffer due to less available oxygen for workouts.

Mechanism

An increase in red blood cell mass allows more oxygen to be supplied to the muscles allowing higher performance. Increases in red blood cell mass are stimulated by an increase in erythropoietin (EPO). The body naturally produces EPO to regulate red blood cell mass. Synthetic EPO also exists. Injections of synthetic EPO and blood doping are illegal in athletic competition because they cause an increase in red blood cells beyond the individual athlete's natural limits. This increase, unlike the increase caused by altitude training, can be dangerous to an athlete's health as the blood may become too thick and cause heart failure (see polycythemia). The natural secretion of EPO by the human kidneys can be increased by altitude training, but the body has limits on the amount of natural EPO that it will secrete, thus avoiding the harmful side effects of the illegal doping procedures.

Scientific studies[citation needed] have shown that altitude training can produce increases in speed, strength, endurance, and recovery. Opponents of altitude training argue that an athlete's red blood cell concentration returns to normal levels within days of returning to sea level and that it is impossible to train at the same intensity that one could at sea level, reducing the training effect and wasting training time due to altitude sickness. Altitude simulation systems have enabled protocols that do not suffer from such compromises, and can be utilized closer to competition if necessary. Some devices would be considered portable.

A 2005 study[5] showed that although the boosted VO2 max had returned to normal 15 days after the conclusion of an 18-day Live High Train Low protocol, the submaximal performance at ventilatory threshold was enhanced upon initial return to sea-level, and was even greater 15 days later.

Numerous other responses to altitude training have also been identified, including angiogenesis, glucose transport, glycolysis, and pH regulation, each of which may partially explain improved endurance performance independent of a larger number of red blood cells.[4]. Furthermore, exercising at altitude has been shown to cause muscular adjustments of selected gene transcripts[6]., and improvement of mitochondrial properties in skeletal muscle[7].

In Finland, a scientist named Heikki Rusko has designed a "high-altitude house." The air inside the house, which is situated at sea level, is at normal pressure but modified to a low concentration of oxygen, about 15.3% (below the 20.9% at sea level), the same concentration as that at the altitudes often used for altitude training. Athletes live and sleep inside the house but perform their training outside (at normal oxygen concentrations at 20.9%). Rusko's results show improvements of EPO and red-cell levels. His technology has been commercialized and is being used by thousands of competitive athletes in cycling, triathlon, olympic endurance sports, professional football, basketball, hockey, soccer, and many other sports that can take advantage of the improvements in strength, speed, endurance, and recovery.