1) Sparring
I love sparring. That's what I go to the gym for. I usually spar about three or four times a week, working on different things every day-some days defense, some days offense. When you're getting ready for a big fight, you find a guy whose style is similar to your opponent's. You want to get used to that style of fighter. With de la Hoya, I need a guy who's real, real stiff, like a tin man.

2) Jump Rope
This comes from the old school. I do it to maintain movement on my toes throughout a fight. There's not a certain time I have to be at the gym-I might show up at three in the afternoon, work a couple hours, go home and relax, then come back at one in the morning and train until five. But I finish every day with at least 10 minutes of jumping rope.

3) Hit the Heavy Bag
This helps prepare you all around the board. Speed bag is good, but I do the heavy bag more. We do different punch drills, uppercuts, left hooks, right hooks, combos. I just walk up to the heavy bag and throw 3,000 punches, nonstop.

4) Running
This is the most important part of training, period. It gets the blood flowing. In boxing you need that conditioning to go 12 rounds. This ain't like football or basketball where, if you're tired, you get to go sit on a bench-you still gotta fight or you get your ass knocked out. Depending on the training cycle, I run five to eight miles a day, six days a week.

5) Sit-ups
I do 200 a day. They're the second most important part. You gotta take body shots. When fighters take body shots and go down, they wasn't doing their sit-ups.

Fix Your Face!

Arturo Gatti's cutman Joe Souza shares techniques to treat three common boxing injuries.

BLOODY NOSE
"Don't blow. It's going to swell like hell and it will close up your eyes. Instead, clean out the blood with a cotton swab."











CUTS
"Use an icy cold towel and clean the blood off right away. Apply a little pressure. Years ago Vaseline was put on the body to help the gloves slide off, but you can also put it on a cut to slow down the bleeding."









SWOLLEN EYE
"When you have swelling, push directly back. Moving it around only pushes the blood to another spot. Use an enswell. It's a piece of stainless steel that gets very cold in ice. It's 16 ounces, and it's a miracle worker for me."
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