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Yea that's all I needed to know.
You most definitely do not know as much about this as I do.
Thank you for your time.
Regimen Could being really strong for your weight division justify not cutting water weight
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You most definitely do not know as much about this as I do.
Thank you for your time.
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Damn I was doing it wrong since 1998 ? damn . My opponents here in 2009 must be mad as hell I won and didn’t know how to use technique in this championship.Lol
And again there is no greatest variable in combat sports you might want there to be but to many actual variables don’t make having strength the greatest one to have and that’s just common sense l
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Come on man. What have you got to lose. Look at your logs, your best period of training is post linear progression before you started doing your own stuff.
Go pull a 1 RM for a bit of fun at the start of the week and take the rest of the week to recover. You won't die.
Best case you bust out a 550lb+ deadlift and shut us up. Worst case, you have an actual max and can work out a plan from there.
Win/win for everyone.
Personally I would chase a squat over the deadlift to get 500lbs to shut us up. Looking at your log, you are working in similar weight areas though and too low to actually get that also. By too low I mean, you just aren't lifting hard enough for your supposed estimated maxes.
455 is 100lbs less than your alleged max. That shouldn't be a recent RPE 8 work set. To be hitting 550lbs you would want to be around 480+.
3-5 sets sure, but that's just a single set of 6 with a rep or two in the tank. It's still meant to be hard, just with good technique.
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Did I ever say that you were a shitty athlete? You said that you weren't a world champion and im telling you with 100% certainty that it is not because you are just too strong or having too much money.
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So in your opinion you only need to do just a bit of skills training to complement raw strength?
How much skills training is required? You scoffed at doing a decade of BJJ or something similar to get a black belt or masters level so what is a sensible time period or amount for skills work?
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we are talking about about two different things I think.
If you are talking about martial arts my point was that fighting is one thing not any particular style but I think you definitely understand that.
Here is the statement once again. Strength is the greatest variable in a fight.
This isn't saying to not do skill practice. This isn't saying that the stronger human will automatically win a competition just because they are stronger on relevant metrics. All this is saying is that this is the greatest variable in a fight. This is not suppose to be a license to bulk up to 400 pounds and train with Sheiko and you will be the UFC champion in 4 years.
What I do not understand is why most of you seem to take this offensively.
Without strength I have got nothing as an athlete. Not even the ability to run a marathon.
You guys are free to take that as you will. It isn't a license once again to only strength train and think you will produce the next world champion in combat sports.
Another thing I do not understand is why it is taken offensively that saying sports are all physical as that is some type of terrible thing that sports are not an actual chess match.
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I think I pulled 545-555 in that log while doing conjugate maybe a year ago. It was a good program to do at the time but it is most definitely not optimal for nearly any goal.
You keep ignoring the fact that I told you I was injured badly twice so I had to build my lifts back up. If you haven't noticed I am living proof that strength gains are anything but linear and especially on top of another sport.
An athlete that is right in the middle of tournaments and a seasonal games has no business pulling 1rms on any lift. Even if you go over to the westside group they would tell you the same thing. I am as you a know a westside certified coach and I can post the badge right here. 1rms are highly neurally fatiguing and on top of sprints/plyos/conditioning and sport practice doesn't make any sense. The westside guys would tell you you should only do Dynamic effort lifts in season and reserve a modified max effort method during the off or pre season for most sports.
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That's not what you said. You are rolling your position back again.
Your claim has always been:
Strength is the single greatest variable in a fight and is the single greatest variable for athleticism. If I dont have to work as hard for 3x bodyweight deadlift I have a distinct advantage because I can spent more training economy on skills.
You are now saying greatest variable when previously you said single greatest variable. Those are two completely different positions.
No one takes offence at you saying sports are all physical. Clearly the act of doing the sport is physical. It's the claim that the mental side of sports performance doesn't exist, that's what you have repeatedly said. The greatest athletes within sports are rarely the most physically capable. In general the best athletes stand out because they have either a greater mental capacity to process decisions or deal better with the mental side of sports under pressure.
Some of the greatest players within sports like NFL etc have tested poorly in the combine, been low draft picks and gone on to be the greatest players in the sport. You say that across multiple sports and it's even more apparent in MMA and other combat sports.
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That's not what you said. You are rolling your position back again.
Your claim has always been:
Strength is the single greatest variable in a fight and is the single greatest variable for athleticism. If I dont have to work as hard for 3x bodyweight deadlift I have a distinct advantage because I can spent more training economy on skills.
You are now saying greatest variable when previously you said single greatest variable. Those are two completely different positions.
No one takes offence at you saying sports are all physical. Clearly the act of doing the sport is physical. It's the claim that the mental side of sports performance doesn't exist, that's what you have repeatedly said. The greatest athletes within sports are rarely the most physically capable. In general the best athletes stand out because they have either a greater mental capacity to process decisions or deal better with the mental side of sports under pressure.
Some of the greatest players within sports like NFL etc have tested poorly in the combine, been low draft picks and gone on to be the greatest players in the sport. You say that across multiple sports and it's even more apparent in MMA and other combat sports.
Do you even realize how stupid you sound? Are you trying to tell me that Lebron James is not the most physically dominant athlete in his sport? Are you telling me that Jon Jones is not the most physically dominant athlete in his sport? You name the sport. Are you telling me that Mike Trout or Acuna are not the most physically dominate athletes in their sport? Here's some news for you. They are not winning with their mind. Sports are simple. So simple that an 8 year old can understand them and compete in them.
All the combine tells you is who is jumping the highest. The best vertical jump in the combine in history didnt even make a team FWII. All the vertical jump and combine tells you is who will and who wont be a football player in the NFL. Tom Brady had less than a 26 inch vertical. Peyton Manning same. FWII my neighbor is the head coach of the high school with Arch manning who plays for Texas now and I sat front row with the elder Archie manning to watch him play 2 years ago in Louisiana. I played 2 years of high school football as a cornerback amongst 6 other sports....karate and TKD was my base for everything I did and still do What is laughable is that you guys think what im saying is just all theoreticall and that I have no skin in the game lol.
What im trying to tell you pressure is a narrative you create in your head. If you do what you are suppose to do then you will succeed. You can choose to fail or you can choose to succeed and failure is the most readily available option at all times.
It's only mental because you make it into some mental chess match in your head to complicate it and to try to create narratives to sell people psychology books and complicate the business for money. The reality is sports are simple. Fighting is simple.
Its like a guy that trash talks you on the court or trash talks in a press conference to take you off your game mentally when if you realized the guy across from you can make up a new language and say whatever they want when you walk into the cage it is completely irrelevant at that point and the only thing that matters is execution.
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I think... You either did or you didn't.
I specifically asked injuries now, Are you currently injured?
How long has it been since you were injured?
I lost use of my arm for 6 months and nearly had to look at disability with work. Injuries happen, who cares. I am as strong or stronger now, train around it.
I trained my arse off to get back.
You can still train hard though. You are lifting so light in comparison to your supposed max you aren't going to improve. It doesn't have adequate volume or intensity. It's an RPE 8 because you aren't used to doing hard work. You have been constantly saying you were in season for years now. Your lifts are going down instead of up.
You play weekends? Play your games, take a day or two off and pull a 1RM. You may still be fatigued, who cares. Then just chill until the next weeks games. Stay active, but don't push that week. You will see a dip for a game at best. Take another lighter week if you need it.
Then you can actually plan a progression to 600lbs if that's the goal.
Put it in perspective, you are playing rec baseball. It's not the NBL. You can take a slight hit performance wise to push your strength up if that's the goal. Didn't you just finish the finals a few weeks ago?
You asked for a plan to hit 600lbs. Nobody can get you there if we don't know what you can do now. You might already be able to hit it or you might be 100lbs off. I think you have trained so far from 1RMs for so long your RPE scale is off. I don't think you are doing RPE 8s.
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100% Jon Jones is not the most physically dominant athlete in his sport. The guy was getting tagged by a post retirement Stipe who still was able to match him in speed, survive his offence until he landed a spinning back kick to the liver to shut him down. Lebron no clue, I think basketball is boring and rarely watch it outside of highlights.
Jones had multiple periods in his career where he was beaten physically before he won by being the better technical fighter and adjusting to his opponent.
He dropped rounds in nearly all of his fights and was outclassed physically in his second run through LHW by guys like Reyes and Santos. The second people were his size he stopped having as much success. They weren't as technical as him and he took the fight to places he was better than them in to win, he wasn't running over them like the initial period where it was people fighting more regularly coming across from Pride.
So if these guys aren't the most physically gifted why are they successful? they aren't the fastest or strongest, but are some of the best ever. What could it possibly be that makes them great?
Post above is perf3ect example of the mental side of training. look at all your excuses why you can't train hard.
In season, Westside says so, injuries etc. That's you building excuses why you should keep fluffing away with easier sets to not feel fatigued in training and why you can't hit the numbers claimed.
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This is quite the contrary I do not think you read the log right. I broke my pinky and my ankle in two separate tournaments stealing bags. it took a few months to be able to walk on it and took quite a while to get surgery on my finger and back to being able to lift with that hand.
My lifts are going up. You do not need to lift maximally to get stronger. I practice during the week because teams literally text me all week to play and I always want to be ready to play so I practice during the week as well as lift. RPE 9-10 sets are awful for athletes to do straight up awful.
Here's the part where you will not listen to. I was my strongest in 2017 by only doing SBDP and using HLM and bulking to over 200 pounds. I was strong on the barbell but in all other metrics relevant to my main sport I was not strong. It was ok at the time because my plan actually was to do a powerlifting meet at the end of that year.
Im doing a lot more than just SBD now and more of a general program much like conjugate. I do SSB, trap bar, olympic lifts, different pressing movements and enough volume to progress slowly while leaving energy for my other training and general life.
My lifts are absolutely going up and if they weren't I would change what im doing. You do not have to lift 1rms to get stronger you can lift submaximally and get stronger.
If I were to take a few months off of baseball then I would switch to more volume on the power lifts. the meet im planning on is in December in Houston and I will be done with baseball for the year at the end of October im going to run a short peaking cycle to try to hit 500 and 600 by that meet date or at least new years day is the goal.
getting strong takes time and especially when you are not dead set on doing nothing but powerlifting and that's it.
I already have this all planned out years in advance of what im going to do with my training. I dont just theoretically think it will work I know that it will provided I dont have severe injury or death.
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Have you seen Jon Jones max lifts? He most definitely is not described as weak and with his taller than most other competitors makes his relative strength for fighting off the charts. Yes he controls range and manages range better than anybody else and that is why he is undefeated. I was there front row sitting next to Halle berry against Reyes. Reyes BTW was a former baseball player and even he didnt do enough to put Jon away even though he Gave him trouble. There is nobody out there than can compete with Jon Jones and there never will be he is the most complete fighter out there and I cannot stand the guy outside of the cage and I can admit that. If he isn't physical then im not sure what you are watching man.
You think that I dont train hard?
You need to educate yourself more seriously if you take this stuff seriously. You are absolutely not correct in your thinking.
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All hail Eric! First of his name, King of Texas, Beaumont’s chosen son, royal messenger, and first champion of the beer leagues. But on a serious note I didn’t realize you were half Cajun…
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Nobody drinks beer in those leagues or they will kick you out.
The name does actually mean kingly
Yes I am a Cajun
Larousse is French
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I don’t know Eric, I read the bio and it seems pretty bold to claim your ancestors were responsible for establishing Texas. That area was somewhat of a hub for trade and had its boom at one point. But from what I read it was not instrumental in the formation of Texas. Maybe I’m wrong?
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Yea you are dead wrong and if you come here to the city today I can show you the engraved statue of Noah tevis.
This city was the hub of the oil boom in the country. Research spindletop and you will understand why.
Nancy actually had to sell her land and was basically hustled out of it.
The town was called tevis bluff that is what noah named it. They used the ferry to transport goods during the war.
Became Beaumont shortly after that.
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I don't take any offense to it. I disagree sure but not a big deal. I think you'd have to be very precise in your language to make any claim and you keep adjusting it because you understand that a black and white statement like that is tough to defend.
Of course. Without health you can't do anything.
I think part of the issue is that you admit you can't train optimally for maximum strength as an inseason athlete as that is detrimental even though it would be better yet repeatedly say that strength is the most important athletic variable. If that was true you'd keep disprortionately prioritizing/working on your strength levels because clearly you have a sufficient skill level in your sport. Why keep training your sport for decades?
You hold an edge position so people will push back on it. I obviously disagree because I think mental side of things is important and part of the reason sports have coaches to help guide the players. But I fully embrace you having this opinion it doesn't bother me one bit.
I personally think in season athletes have no business training to failure or using low rep ranges. In my opinion athletes have a primary duty to their sport, staying healthy and keeping most of their off season strength and conditioning gains. The reason why you're also getting flak here is because it seemingly flies in the face of your own claims with regards to strength being the single most important variable.
Like I said if baseball is your passion then it makes no sense to kill yourself for strength gains in season but I'd also love to see you hit some PRs and end these endless back and forths.
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this explains everything
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Imagine being so shitty at articulating your argument that you try to appeal to authority by showing high school stats from 20+ years ago, embellish your time in rec league sports, and then showing how important your ancestors were. A novel idea would be to actual support your argument by experience training/coaching people, actually doing something worthwhile athletically recently, or simply making logical points.
