…bowling, basketball and snowboarding. It helps him stay in shape all year long, and trains his body to maintain balance and endurance in any environment—and that helps him be a better boxer.
“It’s a different form of muscle training,” says his trainer. “It gives him that muscle confusion and keeps him agile.” In other words, your regular gym routine will continue to work the same muscles that you’ve always worked—in the exact same way. That’s a bad thing. They need to be more versatile than that.
4. The Medicine Ball Workout
Mayweather doesn’t use free weights often; he prefers to build upper body strength in different ways. Other than hitting the mitts, which is Mayweather’s favorite way to work his arms, his go-to equipment is a medicine ball. Holding the medicine ball in both hands, he’ll throw the ball up, catch it, push it up, then bring it down again and repeat. And when he’s not using a medicine ball, he’s supplementing his workout with bodyweight exercises.
Mayweather’s net worth is approximately $340 million according to Forbes. He has earned about $800M during his career, including his recent fight against McGregor.
Mayweather topped the Forbes list of highest paid athletes in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and was ranked number 34 in a list of America’s richest entrepreneurs under 40 last year.
As well as boxing, Mayweather heads The Money Team – a business venture that invests in a range of areas including fashion, music, sport and entertainment.
“I’m going to continue to train and help fighters grow, work with fighters,” Mayweather said to the LA Times. “It’s all about giving back. … I am the face of combat sports. I don’t think there’s a fighter in MMA or boxing that didn’t say, ‘I want to do something like Floyd Mayweather … maybe not everything, but something like Floyd Mayweather.’ ”