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Have any fighters mentioned how much they work out before?

True. I know plenty of people who are 150-170lbs who can deadlift 405lbs with only a couple of months training.

Deadlifting is one of those lifts that is very easy to improve your lift week by week

Yeah, get that technique dialed in and progress comes quickly. The primary muscles for deads, back, hams, glutes get developed through tons of other exercises so you're developing them throughout the week, unless you're on a wretched lifting routine.

All that aside, JJ probably cares and focuses very little on his dl max. I've got plenty of time to dink around in the weightroom, he's like yah know, busy being a world class mixed martial artist.
 
No that photo is fake as fuck, look at his thumbs, they are cropped blatantly. I regularly DL around that much and you cannot hold that weight with a hook grip without fcking up tendons in the forearm

Seriously-photo is fake
 
True. I know plenty of people who are 150-170lbs who can deadlift 405lbs with only a couple of months training.

Deadlifting is one of those lifts that is very easy to improve your lift week by week

Couple of months is stretching it unless they are quite strong to begin with..

I'd say 5-6
 
I heard 1-3 for strength, 4-5 for hypertrophy, 6-7 for reflexes, 8-10 for agility, 10+ for stamina.

Yeah this is around what I heard as well, just changes for different lifts. Theres no definite number.
 
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ITT: More ignorance than I would have expected. Bodybuilding = powerlifting? 3-5 reps for MUSCLE gains?

Getting things exactly wrong is fun, I guess?

I think only one person said bodybuilding=powerlifting. And for different lifts 4-7 reps is for hypertrophy sometimes is 6-10. Where exactly is the ignorance?
 
They only do for reps to build endurance, stamina and strength. That 1-3 rep decreases range of motion (not proven in a study yet)

Not only is it not proven in a study, it is shown to be false in multiple studies, texts, and real world results.
 
Sherk did big numbers
Ditto with Tank

Don't remember how much

Of course hammer house...
 
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