5’10 195
OHP 175
Bench 280
Squat 385
Deadlift 430
Not super impressive but I’m old and beat up. Benched 335 for a double & squatted 405 for a triple when I was 32 and weighed 212
I’ve wrestled with 3 known juicers and all of them were for sure strong as fuck and only one of them looked like it. They also lifted weights (maybe the guys you rolled with didn’t) and were strong before the juice (2x bodyweight bench at minimum).
You have not trained with someone who is juiced up and said “oh they look more impressive than they feel,” unless you were 50+lbs bigger than them. Just bullshit if you act like steroids don’t make you strong as fuck.
Today I did a 30min tabata (20 on/40 off) on the airedyne after a wrestling practice. Vomited three times, ate my wife’s cooking without saying a word, and then fell asleep by 6:30pm. Horrible idea.
Wrestling
In HS, I had no life. I lived the lifestyle of a champion. I lifted and ran in the mornings and wrestled in the afternoons. I didn’t do anything but train year round. I won a lot of matches and beat some really good guys.
In college, I was on a college wrestling team with no...
My answer didn’t include that info as I thought it was obvious you need a solid training plan. These guys are professionals. People from great camps with a great conditioning plan still gas because they cannot function when tired. That’s a lack of mental toughness.
Yes efficiency of motion is...
It has to do with mental toughness. You are going to get tired, that’s the simple fact of things. It’s how you react that decides how the fight will go. Do you listen to the thought that says “alright let’s fucking go, he’s getting tired time to put in on him” or do you listen to the thought...
We use Swiss Bar for all benching/pressing exercises now that I got a couple. Not a fan of pin presses and like deadshot said, board presses are the best for working on your lockout.
My guide to becoming a better athlete using S&C
1. Do a dynamic warm up that focuses on mobility and getting your body warm (Limber 11 works great, I’d add in some band face pulls and pull aparts for upper back/shoulders)
2. Do an explosive movement (med ball slams/broad jumps/box jumps/power...
https://www.t-nation.com/training/531-and-athletes
I would add in box jumps and med ball throws. Nothing more, nothing less. They don’t tax your CNS like heavy cleans do and actually tend to get people motivated to be in the weight room.
Used a couple of these with my guys (HS wrestling coach and S&C coach for the school) and banana almond is the shit. I add some dark chocolate to it and it is unbelievable.
That was my split to a T (skipped a few leg days lol) but now I just go upper/lower/rest/repeat. Helped with the injuries and busted through some plateaus, finally got full ROM on squats after 20+ years
Having been to Russia (Ossetia to be exact) and visited/trained at 3 wrestling clubs that have produced Olympic gold medalists amongst others; he’s right on some things & wrong in others. We have the same volume as they do. We train 5/6 days a weeks just as they do. It’s not a lack of volume...
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