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Five live boxing.

Hello and welcome to this bonus edition of the Five Live Boxing

podcast with Costello on Bunts.

On Monday, we put up our podcast with George Groves focusing on the upcoming fights

for Billy Joe Saunders, Josh Taylor and Deontay Wilder.

And that's still available to download now.

But what you're about to hear is our in-depth conversation with George focusing on his career

from the defeats to Carl Frouch finally winning a world title at the fourth attempt and much more.

But we started off by talking about his approach to training and how much of a grind that had become

by the end of his career.

You have to, it's a real fine balance between what your body needs for a particular fight

and what your body's kind of capable of.

So sometimes you do, you are a little bit more switched on.

Physically, you don't train any harder for a particular fight than any other one because,

you know, that makes no sense.

Every fight is important.

You need to be prepared and overtrained in because it's a bigger fight can be detrimental to your performance.

But the energy it takes to be switched on mentally for a particular fight.

So for example, when I started working with Shane,

we sort of moved through the levels of opposition.

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