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"Muscles don't mean shit"- Freddie Roach
When I heard that I decided to ditch bodybuilding and do body weight exercises just to see what would happen...
2 months later I'm leaner, faster, & much better cardio conditioned.
Not shitting on bodybuilding, but I my body feels healthy now.
Anyone else make this transition?
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Yeah, I quit lifting a couple years ago.
I feel a lot better. My body feels less worn down, no more constant soreness from workouts. I just wake up and my muscles are all fresh and ready to do real work.
Also I look almost the same. I lost some density, but my mass is the same and I'm just as lean.
After you max out with lifting after about 5 years, you can just quit. Beyond that its basically just a masturbatory ritual.
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What body weight exercises do you do.
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Boxing already stimulates plenty of muscle growth in chest, back, core and arms. No need for weight training.
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What body weight exercises do you do.
push ups and dips for chest, anterior delts, and triceps
chins and upper back rows on my Total Gym, for cardio I use a rowing machine which also works my lats and legs
Hindu squats and rowing work my legs okay. I haven't noticed any loss in size (not that they were big to begin with) but my muscular endurance has increased significantly since stopping squats, leg press, hack squats
I'm not personal trainer or expert, just figured I'd try the bread and butter exercises, and they've worked for me.
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Yeah, Manny got knocked out, but at least he brought the action and it was an incredible fight.
go back to your mcdojo arce
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Relax Hammer. I know Manny.
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Relax Hammer. I know Manny.
no prob
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Pushups
Pull ups
squats
That's it.
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Relax Hammer. I know Manny.
As in you are a close personal friend or you have talked to him once or twice.
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apparently muscles DO matter since marquez couldnt knock him out until he added some
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apparently muscles DO matter since marquez couldnt knock him out until he added some
No, Manny got knocked out because the fight turned into a brawl.
Manny made 1 wrong move and Marquez took advantage.
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No, Manny got knocked out because the fight turned into a brawl.
Manny made 1 wrong move and Marquez took advantage.
that punch has been open since the begining of pacmans career
finally someone with skills caught him
and people thought pacman had a chance against mayweather lol
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"Muscles don't mean shit"- Freddie Roach
When I heard that I decided to ditch bodybuilding and do body weight exercises just to see what would happen...
2 months later I'm leaner, faster, & much better cardio conditioned.
Not shitting on bodybuilding, but I my body feels healthy now.
Anyone else make this transition?
I have long understood this. Only work out with weights "infrequently".
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"Muscles don't mean shit"- Freddie Roach
When I heard that I decided to ditch bodybuilding and do body weight exercises just to see what would happen...
2 months later I'm leaner, faster, & much better cardio conditioned.
Not shitting on bodybuilding, but I my body feels healthy now.
Anyone else make this transition?
Fuck off you fat neggul lover
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Been 'meaning to' start up some planche and front lever training but haven't 'got around to it' yet.
And I want to learn to kong because it just looks cool.
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Fuck off you fat neggul lover
Brutal :o
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I get what you are trying to say, but they are different types of work outs and they serve different purposes. I am all for changing up your routine and try different things, but none is better than the other. The end goals are different, just pushing body weight won't give you or maintain a certain level of thickness.
For me instead of doing 50 pushups 5 times, I would much rather incline press 10 reps for 5 reps. Why not combine the best of both world? one month do body weights (calisthenics) and then the other month actually lift weights.
more and more I am getting into cycling, and a lot of cyclists have sworn off running since they consider riding a bike a more intense form of cardio. But it would take you a couple of cycling to equal the cardio from running hills.
if you alternate you get the benefits of both, and also keep your work out routine fresh.
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I have seen more guys who are in incredible shape who use body weight exercises than guys who lift weights. Maybe not steroid pose in your under wear look but real athletic shape. I lift but truth be told you can be ripped and be ass kicking ready from just running and body weight stuff.
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For me instead of doing 50 pushups 5 times, I would much rather incline press 10 reps for 5 reps. Why not combine the best of both world? one month do body weights (calisthenics) and then the other month actually lift weights.
more and more I am getting into cycling, and a lot of cyclists have sworn off running since they consider riding a bike a more intense form of cardio. But it would take you a couple of cycling to equal the cardio from running hills.
if you alternate you get the benefits of both, and also keep your work out routine fresh.
it seems you are leaning more towards hypertrophy than S&C which is fine Im just a little confused by your point
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boxing in itself is hella workout
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I've started doing hand stands and hand walking and it absolutely wrecks your whole upper body in a good way and I feel that my punches are instantly a lot sharper approaching that amateur boxer speed without a doubt.
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Ross Enamait anyone? I combined one of his cardio routines to my LISS/weight programs and it immediately busted my plateau and got me in my best condition.
Www.rosstraining.com (http://Www.rosstraining.com)
After reading this thread I think I'll reacquaint myself to his methods but this time for strength.
Anyone have experience with his stuff?
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Ross Enamait anyone? I combined one of his cardio routines to my LISS/weight programs and it immediately busted my plateau and get me in my best condition.
Www.rosstraining.com (http://Www.rosstraining.com)
After reading this thread I think I'll reacquaint myself to his methods for strength.
Anyone have experience with his stuff?
i have numerously brought up the guy in these types of discussion so much that ross should write me a check
never gymless is a must have
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Yeah, I quit lifting a couple years ago.
I feel a lot better. My body feels less worn down, no more constant soreness from workouts. I just wake up and my muscles are all fresh and ready to do real work.
Also I look almost the same. I lost some density, but my mass is the same and I'm just as lean.
After you max out with lifting after about 5 years, you can just quit. Beyond that its basically just a masturbatory ritual.
true but to get sronger u have to lifts
and manny pacquiacu lifts moronr
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you need to do some curls and pushdowns
no weights = no arms ;)
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"Muscles don't mean shit"- Freddie Roach
When I heard that I decided to ditch bodybuilding and do body weight exercises just to see what would happen...
2 months later I'm leaner, faster, & much better cardio conditioned.
Not shitting on bodybuilding, but I my body feels healthy now.
Anyone else make this transition?
(http://static.boxrec.com/wiki/6/6c/Ricky_Hatton_vs._Manny_Pacquiao.JPG)
if muscle don;'t mean shit why there are weight classes in boxing
YOU ARE FUCKING STUOPIDDDD
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you need to do some curls and pushdowns
no weights = no arms ;)
pull up and dips = arms
ass blown
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I did for a while now, I only do bodyweight stuff for my upper body, the basic chin ups, pull ups, dips, push ups, etc. I mainly do bodyweight stuff for legs too, but include some weighted work like db lunges or squats at least once a month.
To be honest I also look better than when I was training with weights, although it maybe simply because I stopped permabulking, lol.
One thing is for sure, when I was weight training I had a lot of nagging pains and small injuries all the time, tendonitis on my elbow, back pain, etc. and they all disappeared once I made the transition to bodyweight training, specially the tendonitis, I had it for a whole year and it wouldn't go away, until I stopped lifting weights and boom a few weeks later its gone.
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more and more I am getting into cycling, and a lot of cyclists have sworn off running since they consider riding a bike a more intense form of cardio.
lol
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i have numerously brought up the guy in these types of discussion so much that ross should write me a check
never gymless is a must have
I just went to his site and purchased his ebook versions even though I already own his paperbacks. Only $12 per ebook so wth
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I did for a while now, I only do bodyweight stuff for my upper body, the basic chin ups, pull ups, dips, push ups, etc. I mainly do bodyweight stuff for legs too, but include some weighted work like db lunges or squats at least once a month.
To be honest I also look better than when I was training with weights, although it maybe simply because I stopped permabulking, lol.
One thing is for sure, when I was weight training I had a lot of nagging pains and small injuries all the time, tendonitis on my elbow, back pain, etc. and they all disappeared once I made the transition to bodyweight training, specially the tendonitis, I had it for a whole year and it wouldn't go away, until I stopped lifting weights and boom a few weeks later its gone.
Same here, I had tendinitis in my left shoulder and my elbows were fucked.
I was always very conscience of my form and never went too heavy either, but still it was always some nagging injury or soreness. Also, my muscles were always tight, even with stretching.
Now there's no injuries and my joints feel rejuvenated.
I'm no fighter, but I've always loved to hit the bags and shadow box. I could barely throw any left handed punches at one point because of the tendinitis in my left shoulder.
I think weight training is good, but anyone who has similar nagging injuries, despite doing everything right in the weight room, should consider the transition because it might help.
If you're natural I don't think you'll lose much muscle.
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true but to get sronger u have to lifts
and manny pacquiacu lifts moronr
From what I understand he doesn't in a traditional sense. He may use some light weights in his S&C, but he doesn't do a bodybuilding type workout.
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After 5 years of heavy training I don't think you really need to go too insane in the gym. Once your have some solid skeletal muscle built up, you just need to stimulate the muscle in the gym. I don't get as sore and I don't train with nearly as heavy weights. My workouts are mostly cardio and basically a glorified pump workout. Doing lots of skipping too. Used to box for a few years in high school and got super good with the skipping. Really blows the calves up nicely. 8)
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The best workouts I ever had were after a 4 month break, went back to the gym and was lifting better and stronger, felt energized then three weeks into it I got nailed real bad with a flu that fucked it all up. I wonder if my immune system was still on break.
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As in I know a lot of people from Wild Card. That was my main Boxing Gym. I always took my people there to spar real boxers. MMA people can get it twisted, and think that because they do well with boxing in mma, that they will do well in a ring with pure boxers. Big wake up call. To get good, you need to go and train with the best in every area.