Secret to Pacquiao’s power comes from PNCs, not PEDS

I AM not supposed to divulge this secret but I really believe that in order to prove to the world that Manny Pacquiao is greatest boxer of this generation, the playing field must be leveled and everybody must know what it is that makes him so fast and so strong.

Perhaps, Floyd Mayweather could learn from this so that he will stop using the PEDs excuse to cover up for his unwillingness to fight Manny Pacquiao.

Manny Pacquiao’s secret to his speed and power is not the PEDs, or lengthily Performance Enhancing Drugs.

Genetics? Maybe, to a certain extent, yes. But that is not what made Manny Pacquiao what he is. Otherwise, Manny’s siblings, specifically Bobby, would just have been as good as Manny or Rodel, the barangay chairman, would just as be as fast and as quick as the Pacman.

Also, if Manny is simply a product of an outstanding genetic mix, then we would not have a problem producing another Manny Pacquiao because all that we need to do is to convince Aling Dionisia to reconcile with her husband and produce more Mannys.

There are two factors that contribute to what Manny Pacquiao is as an athlete: 1) A mind so tough that brings about the strong-will to ensure hardships in training and the determination to succeed; and 2) a diet that helps develop the strength and fast muscle fibers.

Here is something that would make the Philippine hog raisers sad but gladden the rural farmers who raise native chicken, variably called Manok Tagalog in Luzon, Manok Bisaya in the Visayas and Parawakan in the Southern Philippines. In Malaysia and Indonesia, they are called Kampong chicken.

“I don’t eat pork but I love pure native chicken (PNC),” Manny Pacquiao told me last week during lunch in his hotel room in Baguio City as he feasted on huge cuts of native chicken meat swimming in a plateful of soup which submerged the white rice and green leafy vegetables.

Just like his views on family planning where he supports the natural method, Manny Pacquiao’s food preference is more of the natural. How it contributes to a body packed with power and speed has a scientific basis. Pure Native Chicken are raised in the backyard ranges and survive without any antibiotics or meat-growth enhancing additives.

Pure native chicken feeds on everything that nature offers to be able to survive. It’s just freshly harvested yellow corn, green grass, worms and bugs that they eat before they are harvested by the farmers and sold to the market in rattan crates.

The meat is firmer than the broiler chicken and the pure native chicken barbecue is one of the best delicacies that you would find in the markets in Davao City and Kidapawan City in North Cotabato.

For fruits, Manny loves the Philippine pomelo widely grown in sunny Southern Mindanao, mangosteen largely known for its anti-oxidizing benefits, Philippine mango and a little of the exotic Durian and the imported Ponkan and grapes.

How much contribution does the food intake has on the physical capabilities of an athlete?

Well, I am not an expert on human diet but I can tell you based on my experience in breeding and raising gamefowls, or the fighting roosters, that the food intake of my chickens from Day One up to the time they are ready for the battle would greatly determine their performance inside the pit.

Of course, genetics plays a big role too because even if you feed a Rhode Island Red with the best quality fighting food, it will get whipped by an average Hatch rooster because the Rhode Island Red breed is for meat and eggs.

But a healthy chick fed with high protein food and bred out of outstanding lineage will definitely perform exceptionally on fight day.

So there you go, Manny Pacquiao’s secret is not PEDs but PNCs, pure native chicken, and perhaps Floyd Mayweather will stop the nonsense about the Pacman using drugs.

If Floyd is interested, I can ask the farmers in North Cotabato to raise some healthy native chicken for him so that there would be a leveling of the playing field. He gets to eat what Manny Pacquiao eats.

But I have a suggestion. If Floyd likes to take the PNCs, he should get the Parawakan breed produced in the Southern Philippines.

You see, the Parawakan is actually a double-purpose chicken. They are brave and are also used for naked heel fighting by the tribes in the Southern Philippines and could go on fighting for hours until the other runs away or drops dead. Their other relatives would be the Japs, the Asils and the Shamos.

We call them the Chicken with the Heart.

Floyd could greatly benefit from the Parawakan genes because I think it is the heart that he lacks and needs most.

Source: manilatimes.net