Kurt Angle's Pre-Olympic Workout

[luckyshot]

I was thumbing through an old magazine at the gym today (October 2009). It claimed that some of Kurt Angle's pre-Olympic sessions consisted of such feats as:

*Lateral jumps over a bench for a minute straight while holding 40 lb. dumbbells
*Sets of 60 jumping squats while holding a pair of 100 lb dumbbells.
*Sprinting up a 200 yard hill 20x with a partner on his back, then 10 more alone.
*A single squat workout including: 120 reps at 135, 70 @ 225, 40 @ 315, and 25 @405.

In American wrestling, superhuman workloads are spoken about in hushed, reverential tones. If the above is true, it may be the most impressive regime I have ever heard of, even more so than Dan Gable's. Kurt Angle may have been the baddest of them all.

 

[KILL KILL]

I was thumbing through an old magazine at the gym today (October 2009). It claimed that some of Kurt Angle's pre-Olympic sessions consisted of such feats as:

*Lateral jumps over a bench for a minute straight while holding 40 lb. dumbbells
*Sets of 60 jumping squats while holding a pair of 100 lb dumbbells.
*Sprinting up a 200 yard hill 20x with a partner on his back, then 10 more alone.
*A single squat workout including: 120 reps at 135, 70 @ 225, 40 @ 315, and 25 @405.

In American wrestling, superhuman workloads are spoken about in hushed, reverential tones. If the above is true, it may be the most impressive regime I have ever heard of, even more so than Dan Gable's. Kurt Angle may have been the baddest of them all.

Meh, I've seen countless interviews with Angle talking about his olympic training and each one, the training becomes seemingly more inhuman. I remember him speaking about squatting 225 for like 100 and then doing hill sprints for 8 hours or some bullshit. I don't believe a word of it.

 

[luckyshot]

I agree that it does seem superhuman. But who knows? He did win an Olympic gold medal; why would he lie about his training?

 

[Deleted member 382931]

I agree that it does seem superhuman. But who knows? He did win an Olympic gold medal; why would he lie about his training?

To build the legend of his "inhuman regimen"?
To see how many people believe it?

Similiar to the Michael Phelps 12.000 kcal-a-day story.

 

[Sno]

Olympic Gold Medalists vs. Sherdog Users,
I have goose bumps.

 

[KILL KILL]

I agree that it does seem superhuman. But who knows? He did win an Olympic gold medal; why would he lie about his training?

there have been countless wrestlers with far better credentials than Angle that didn't train to such a degree. Don't buy into his bullshit.

 

[ALAN PARTRIDGE]

Kurt angle has been known to bend the truth with nearly everything he says

 

[Stargazer Rex]

Kurt Angle also did all that training with a broken freakin neck.






























It's true, it's damn true.

 

[daken7]

Kurt angle has been known to bend the truth with nearly everything he says

Yep. He also tends to say some really stupid things, when his twitter account is hacked of course.

He's gone from the very meaning of the word legit to the very core of what pro wrestling is about.

Still a terrific athlete though.

 

[SenÖr Whìteßel+]

can you imagine had he went into mma instead of the WWE!?!? he'd have destroyed everyone in his path. heck, they are lucky he doesnt want to try his hand at mma right now and wreak havoc. words were he would rag doll lesnar behind the scenes of wwe

 

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[Bang Rachan]

Crazy workload if true

 

[Normot]

This is the urban myth, anyways. Apparently, he pinned Lesnar 7 times in 10 minutes, or something like that, after a WWE show. Vince was pissed when he caught wind of it.

Urban myth or not, it's not hard to picture an Olympic gold medalist dismantling a one time NCAA champ who is only one weight class higher.

 

[Stargazer Rex]

I can easily picture a younger Angle taking Brock for a ride.

 

[Dirty Holt]

I watched him train once when I was in highschool. He was helping another guy get ready for a tournament. I never really like Angle as a wrestler at the time, but what really struck me was how fucking hard this guy trained. It was like nothing I had ever seen before and rarely have I seen since. Never saw him in the weight room, but his wrestling and conditioning on the mat was some of the most intense I have ever seen.

 

[Miiiiiiighty]

25 times 405 lbs ?
Must have been bodybuilding type half squats..

I have troubles believe the jump squats and squats over a bench considering the loads .
Hill sprints ? I don't know

 

[luckyshot]

I watched him train once when I was in highschool. He was helping another guy get ready for a tournament. I never really like Angle as a wrestler at the time, but what really struck me was how fucking hard this guy trained. It was like nothing I had ever seen before and rarely have I seen since. Never saw him in the weight room, but his wrestling and conditioning on the mat was some of the most intense I have ever seen.

What, specifically, did he do differently than other people?

there have been countless wrestlers with far better credentials than Angle that didn't train to such a degree. Don't buy into his bullshit.

What is a better credential than an Olympic gold medal and world championship?

 

[KILL KILL]

What, specifically, did he do differently than other people?



What is a better credential than an Olympic gold medal and world championship?

multiple time world / olympic champion. Do you honestly think an olympic wrestler aka endurance athlete could squat like 700? Because that's what 405 X 25 would equate to. Sure he may have trained insanely hard, but he was still human.

 

[luckyshot]

multiple time world / olympic champion. Do you honestly think an olympic wrestler aka endurance athlete could squat like 700? Because that's what 405 X 25 would equate to. Sure he may have trained insanely hard, but he was still human.

There have been like seven multi-time Olympic freestyle champions ever... hardly a "countless number"

Also, he did not say how many sets he split the reps into, so there is no way to extrapolate a 1 rm from something like that.

I agree that the workload seems unreal, but who am I to say? Maybe ordinary people like you and I just don't comprehend how incredible the gap is between us and truly elite, world caliber athletes.

 

[Miiiiiiighty]

There have been like seven multi-time Olympic freestyle champions ever... hardly a "countless number"

Also, he did not say how many sets he split the reps into, so there is no way to extrapolate a 1 rm from something like that.

I agree that the workload seems unreal, but who am I to say? Maybe ordinary people like you and I just don't comprehend how incredible the gap is between us and truly elite, world caliber athletes.

No way those numbers are right, and I remember reading in an old magazine the reps @ 405 were done in one set.
Back then I remember reading something like 18 reps though, not quite 25

Wrestlers are very explosive but they don't use most of there time in the lifting room.
And this argument about world class caliber athletes is so wrong, how would someone who's not even a specialist at lifting put up better number than the best oly weighlfiters and/or raw powerlifters ( who also are high level athletes ) while training most of his time to condition himelf/improve his wrestling skills..?

Not to mention those numbers are , like it's been said, improving each and everytime Angle is interviewed.
Don't forget this is coming from someone saying he saw Brock lift like a 700bench, 800 squat and 900 dead so big lol. ( his number are probably rather 500/650/700 or something in those lines )

No doubt Angle was an extremely strong guy, but nowhere near this nonsense.