Have any fighters mentioned how much they work out before?

[Roflcer Lawlz]

3-5 is for bulk

I though 1-3/4 was for strength and 3-5/6 was for bulking/hypertrophy?

 

[Zezima]

I mean like in the gym lifting weights? I would be curious as to how much fighters throughout different weight classes can lift etc.

Has anyone ever read about that before from fighters?

The only thing I can remember that was close was Guillard saying the only fighter that he felt was as strong as him was Tibau and that Edgar can bench 155 24 times or something like that.

inb4 275

Theres a video on the internets of Phill Baroni telling you his training program and all the tablets he takes etc.

 

[Diet Otsuka]

EDIT: Could possibly be 475lbs, it looks like there might be some 35lb plates on the end

Either way its not that impressive.

 

[SoccerMom]

I though 1-3/4 was for strength and 3-5/6 was for bulking/hypertrophy?

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

 

[wowspare]

BS. Doing strengthening exercises in low rep ranges (3-5) would be great, and leave you with plenty in the tank for doing actual real cardio.

You don't lift weights for endurance, you do endurance work for endurance.

You need plenty of "muscle endurance" in MMA..... Especially all those fighters with grinding styles like Fitch

 

[Metheus]

I remember Tank benching something like 600lbs on a UFC PPV back in the day...

 

[WanderLogun]

A lot of fighters do that, and it does help you to not be KO'd.

Please explain how you know it hasn't helped him.

It was probably more of an assumption after the Bigfoot KO

However, it definitely hasn't helped his cardio

 

[big_hungry_joe]

It's funny because Jones was so proud he deadlifted that he put a photo of it on Twitter

405lbs deadlift is pretty weak for a guy who's 230lbs

EDIT: Could possibly be 475lbs, it looks like there might be some 35lb plates on the end

The photo looks fake to me. Look at his hands. They are open. I doubt his fingers are strong enough so that he can hold a 405lb bar on his fingertips alone.

 

[WanderLogun]

The photo looks fake to me. Look at his hands. They are open. I doubt his fingers are strong enough so that he can hold a 405lb bar on his fingertips alone.

Grip strength yo

 

[Sigoff2]

As I mentioned earlier, weightlifting is not the most important thing in martial arts. If you don't know how to strike you are dead regardles of how strong you are. I agree Jones deadlift is not that impressive. But it won't matter as long as he has insane reach and excellent striking. If only Chael could learn how strike efficiently as well his wrestling he would be champion.

 

[Damian Bartlett]

Oddly enough, plenty of very ripped fighters claim to lift little if at all, including Herschel Walker and Hector Lombard.

True but then they admit to 250+ push ups, crunches etc a day. Non-bodybuilders seem to be completely unaware that Push Ups alone do a massive amount of work for the upperbody and core.

 

[AminoMan]

I though 1-3/4 was for strength and 3-5/6 was for bulking/hypertrophy?

Generally the guidelines are 3-5 for strength, and 6-10/12 is hyptertrophy, obviously you will still gain some strength with higher reps and vice versa with the low reps.

And as said before, you do endurance work for endurance, you dont go bench press with 20lbs 100 times or whatever people want to believe

 

[ayiio]

but seriously. i dont know, they probably do a lot in their training camps.

That pic is brilliantly funny

 

[Palooka]

True but then they admit to 250+ push ups, crunches etc a day. Non-bodybuilders seem to be completely unaware that Push Ups alone do a massive amount of work for the upperbody and core.

I know you're proving a point, but 250 push-ups or crunches a day ain't shit. Try like 1000 plus.

 

[Vagitarian]

Aint this the truth. Not bashing or anything, but Okami looked like a big brother toying with his younger sibling.

U saying okami was bigger than Belcher? Bcher was huge the whole time it looked like he was a weightclass s bigger thn okami. But okami still came out on top.

 

[Jeffplsgo]

The photo looks fake to me. Look at his hands. They are open. I doubt his fingers are strong enough so that he can hold a 405lb bar on his fingertips alone.

It's called a hook grip, brah. Thumb under fingers gives much improved grip strength

 

[markg171]

Either way its not that impressive.

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

 

[camL17]

not sure if this was posted but I read once that GSP only lifts weights to improve physique and that it isn't part of his regular training

 

[...El Ray]

ITT: More ignorance than I would have expected. Bodybuilding = powerlifting? 3-5 reps for MUSCLE gains?

Getting things exactly wrong is fun, I guess?

 

[MMun]

I know you're proving a point, but 250 push-ups or crunches a day ain't shit. Try like 1000 plus.

Now why would you want to do that instead of proper strength training?

Pushups are fine, but doing a thousand in a day would be a bloody waste of time.