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With his insane cardio, why isnt Cain ripped?

He's not a body builder. His training goal isn't getting shredded.
 
Rod1 said:
There is no such thing as a mexican race, mexican can come from blue eyed blonde to african black and anything in between.
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False, that's a mexican!

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he eats like a fiend

which probably helps him in the king run since he always has energy to train, whenever i eat whatever i want. i train a lot better than when I'm cutting
 
biscuitsbrah said:
Ok let me dispel some of the incredible broscience.
Cain trains extremely often with high intensity and needs copious amounts of food to recover. To be on the safe side he eats in a caloric surplus, especially since he doesn't need to cut weight. On top of that he doesn't need to diet that hard so he can basically eat anything with meat and carbs (probably too much carbs)

Since his muscle have adapted to the cardiovascular workout he has done (specifically his heart which is a muscle that adapts to exercise) the amount of bodyfat he has is irrelevant because his heart and muscular endurance have already seen the changes and eating more does not affect that. Also fat does not require oxygen and take up energy. Although a ton of fat can make you heavier and hinder movement thus affecting how much energy you expend, Cain really doesn't have that much that would prove to be a hinderance. (Unlike Roy)
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best response of the thread... also I might add simple genes... different body types develop muscle in different ways, I dont think GSP does a lot of hammer curls however his body develops in a more "esthetic" way than Cains just to put an example
 
He has no diet to speak of , and has a calorific surplus .

Simple as that . You can train for hours and hours and be physically fit .. But if you eat more food (energy) then you expend (endergy) you will not have a good physique .

He's the champ with no one near him .. So why would he diet just for looks when his body is highly efficient already ?

That being said I do respect fighters more when they look like they diet or take their appearance a bit more seriously .. Not against Cain .. I'm just saying.

Also the genes thing is bullshit , I know 4 guys who used to play rugby with me who are Samoan Ethnicity but born in England and none of them are slightly fat .. There just more Muscle like Roman Reigns or Manu Tuilagi .

People on here about "Mexicans hold fat tissue" wtf is this ?? Every ethnicity from caucasian to African-American to Asian has tha capacity to be cut lean and have 6packs.

I guess saying that "it's my culture" is a good excuse for some people but whatever.

P.S Cain isn't fat just slightly overweight due to his own choice , he's the champ why fix it when it aint broke ?
 
People still think muscles = cardio? Are you sure you know what cardio is short for? Hint - it's a muscle inside your body that pumps your blood throughout.
 
Actually, most people with great cardio aren't shredded. Look at the Diaz brothers. You won't find many shredded people running marathons or doing triatholons.

Cain prepares his body to be in the best shape to fight 25 minutes of MMA. It's a balance of strength, quickness, and cardio in terms of training. Does he carry a few pounds of extra fat, yeah he does. However, he probably has the best cardio in the HW division and he's the UFC champ. I think he and his camp know what they're doing in terms of preparing him to be in peak fighting condition.
 
billynjimmylee said:
People on here about "Mexicans hold fat tissue" wtf is this ?? Every ethnicity from caucasian to African-American to Asian has tha capacity to be cut lean and have 6packs.

I guess saying that "it's my culture" is a good excuse for some people but whatever.

P.S Cain isn't fat just slightly overweight due to his own choice , he's the champ why fix it when it aint broke ?
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The South American Indians are different from the North American Indians. The Mohawks for example are lean and tall. The South American Indians can go for long periods without food so the survivals are the ones who can store a lot of fat when they do get food to get ready for the lean times. They also reflect this in their diet, so you can say it's the cultural thing: the diet is calorie rich.

Trouble is when these people adopt to American diet, there is no lean periods and the food is readily available. Btw, Mexicans in Mexico are pretty lean on the average. The more Indian genes, the more propensity to get fat.
 
Sac423 said:
he and the others making taco bell jokes are just being racist. (mexicans arent a race, I know. Its a nationality)

I dont mind it, just not original or funny is all
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It really isn't being racist. He has a countdown show where he eats a bunch of taco's during camp. I think it was Josh Thomson who even said " how do you eat like that during camp " in the footage lol.
 
dfoster said:
The South American Indians are different from the North American Indians. The Mohawks for example are lean and tall. The South American Indians can go for long periods without food so the survivals are the ones who can store a lot of fat when they do get food to get ready for the lean times. They also reflect this in their diet, so you can say it's the cultural thing: the diet is calorie rich.

Trouble is when these people adopt to American diet, there is no lean periods and the food is readily available. Btw, Mexicans in Mexico are pretty lean on the average. The more Indian genes, the more propensity to get fat.
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Where is the border between north and south indians pre America?
 
You get ripped by having a low body fat percentage, not by having great cardio. You could have very low bodyfat and have shit cardio or decent cardio and high body fat. The correlation between people being ripped and having cardio is not a causal relationship. Doing cardio exercise tends to burn a lot of fat as well as getting good cardio, but you body fat is also dependent on diet, of course.
 
This is a thread full of people who are fans of a sport in which training, diet, and body composition play a quite significant role.

This thread is also full of people (aside from a couple posters) who have absolutely no idea how calories, cardio, and body composition are related.

The fact that both of those statements can be true is mind blowing, but it also helps explain the obesity epidemic in the developed world.
 
ZapatasGuns said:
Where is the border between north and south indians pre America?
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not a geographic thing though. Btw, you can probably read up on it in physical anthropology books (this field of study is now phased out in favor of molecular anthropology, the liberal pressure on science to say "we're all the same".

But the books are out there. They actually have 4-5 groupings of Native Americans. If I remember correctly, one is in Eskimo, one is in Canada, one is in Western America, ect.. and so on.

The group in Brazil is actually different from the group in Mexico.... very detailed study with pictures to back them up.
 
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