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Title: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Submissionfytr on January 04, 2016, 09:09:18 PM
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At 6:40 Tyson specifically says several times he never did any weight training and stuck to calesthenics. I'm sure I read stuff one here about some crazy bench press weight he supposedly did as well as his "arm" routine, which now must be seen as total bullshit. Besides the tremendous punching power he also had one of the top physiques in boxing IMO, impressive if he was a naturally built guy who just did body weight exercises.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: TheShape. on January 04, 2016, 09:10:23 PM
He's a genetic marvel either way.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: SOMEPARTS on January 04, 2016, 09:14:20 PM
If you train 6 hours a day as a pro boxer you are going to be in good shape, weights or not. 
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: DanzigBrah on January 04, 2016, 09:17:19 PM
Pretty obvious he did gear, even moreso later in his career. Anywho I'm sure he did all kinds of exercises, based on what he needed to improve. He had the heart of a lion no doubt. It's a shame he stoped taking his training seriously after cus died. After that he was just running on rage.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Pray_4_War on January 04, 2016, 09:56:38 PM
I think he was on shit after he got out of prison in 1995.  He was shredded against McNeely.  Looked great (no homo).

It's possible that he didn't juice before that.  He was huge and strong as a bull at age 12-13.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: 240 is Back on January 04, 2016, 10:17:34 PM
Legit crazy + built out of fast twitch fibers + gear. 

Awesome combination. 
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Sizwe on January 05, 2016, 03:58:25 AM
didn't he once mention that more muscle doesn't add to the punch?
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Royalty on January 05, 2016, 04:05:38 AM
didn't he once mention that more muscle doesn't add to the punch?

I don't agree with that. A heavyweight will always cause more damage than a flyweight

Speed is a more important factor than mass. But mass is still a factor.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Radical Plato on January 05, 2016, 04:43:08 AM
I don't agree with that. A heavyweight will always cause more damage than a flyweight

Speed is a more important factor than mass. But mass is still a factor.
force = mass x acceleration

basic physics
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Yamcha on January 05, 2016, 04:45:20 AM
This is a topic never explored by GetBig.  ::)
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Waller on January 05, 2016, 05:16:58 AM
force = mass x acceleration

basic physics

You do realise that is in reference to the forces acting upon the moving object, and isn't directly transferable to the forces exchanged on impact?
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Royalty on January 05, 2016, 05:50:22 AM
You do realise that is in reference to the forces acting upon the moving object, and isn't directly transferable to the forces exchanged on impact?

Would you rather fight a prime 220LB Tyson.... or a 145LB version of Mike Tyson?

Same skills. Just a 75lbs difference. Weight is the only altered variable.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Waller on January 05, 2016, 05:58:21 AM
Would you rather fight a prime 220LB Tyson.... or a 145LB version of Mike Tyson?

Same skills. Just a 75lbs difference. Weight is the only altered variable.

220lbs of course, I like a challenge  :D

My point wasn't about Tyson, just about how you can't determine impact forces in a fight from that one equation.

Would you rather take a Tyson hook to the chin, or be hit by an Airbus a380 travelling at 1mph? Now ask yourself which took the greater force to move at their respective speeds.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: wes on January 05, 2016, 06:11:44 AM
Phil Heath was never a boxer!   :D
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Waller on January 05, 2016, 06:14:42 AM
Phil Heath was never a boxer!   :D

Morgan L Fishbourne was my favourite heavyweight.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: wes on January 05, 2016, 06:19:57 AM
Morgan L Fishbourne was my favourite heavyweight.
Were you not a fan of Samuel L. Freeman  ???   :D
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Yamcha on January 05, 2016, 06:21:01 AM
Were you not a fan of Samuel L. Freeman  ???   :D

Didn't you go to summer camp with George Washington Carver?
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: wes on January 05, 2016, 06:22:58 AM
Didn't you go to summer camp with George Washington Carver?
Indeed I did.

Peanuts Of Peace
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Waller on January 05, 2016, 06:23:01 AM
Were you not a fan of Samuel L. Freeman  ???   :D

Isn't it the same guy?

Didn't you go to summer camp with George Washington Carver?

Hahahaha.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: BB on January 05, 2016, 07:07:16 AM
He lifted weights, in fact, there use to be older video of him lifting on youtube, but they pulled it down. And guys in his training camps have mentioned weight training too. Usually when these guys talk about not lifting, it actually means closer to "no set/structured weight lifting program" or "I just fool around with them a bit". Meanwhile, the "just fool around with them" could still be a decent time spent lifting them.

Also that was shown in 1988, which means it might of been shot 1986 - 1987, and his training program changed in the years following.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: HTexan on January 05, 2016, 08:37:09 AM
No weights or peds. Dude heaviest fighting weight in good shape was 222 at 5'10. 
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Agnostic007 on January 05, 2016, 08:50:09 AM
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Donny on January 05, 2016, 08:57:28 AM
There ya go...
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Pray_4_War on January 05, 2016, 09:15:30 AM
There ya go...


Cool video but that was at the very ass-end of his career.  After he fought Lennox Lewis.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Donny on January 05, 2016, 09:19:45 AM
Cool video but that was at the very ass-end of his career.  After he fought Lennox Lewis.
yes posted by Agnostic007 but seen it before... freaky music  :)
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Agnostic007 on January 05, 2016, 09:55:25 AM
I guess we'll have to change the claim from Mike Tyson never lifted weights to Mike Tyson didn't lift weights before ______. Then we can adjust that claim once a video shows up debunking it.  :)
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: MoralMan on January 05, 2016, 10:10:24 AM
Whether he lifted or not, he d fuck up every single one of you. Do any of you bodybuilders think you d have a chance against Tyson in his prime?
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Donny on January 05, 2016, 10:11:30 AM
Whether he lifted or not, he d fuck up every single one of you. Do any of you bodybuilders think you d have a chance against Tyson in his prime?
Oh shut up  ::)
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Waller on January 05, 2016, 10:30:34 AM
Whether he lifted or not, he d fuck up every single one of you. Do any of you bodybuilders think you d have a chance against Tyson in his prime?

Ronnie would have had him.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Griffith on January 05, 2016, 11:09:46 AM
He started lifting weights in prison.

Before that it was only heavy shrugs for reps, neck bridges, bodyweight exercises and lots of running.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: HTexan on January 05, 2016, 11:47:52 AM
Cool video but that was at the very ass-end of his career.  After he fought Lennox Lewis.
So it thought  weights were the fountain of youth?
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: fredrollon on January 05, 2016, 02:09:20 PM
I guess we'll have to change the claim from Mike Tyson never lifted weights to Mike Tyson didn't lift weights before ______. Then we can adjust that claim once a video shows up debunking it.  :)

I certainly remember him lifting weights(curls/incline dumbell presses/barbell squats) post-Holyfield,in the late 90's.  Maybe he did some lifting during his incarceration for rape


(http://i1.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article168054.ece/alternates/s615/rob-blakeman-with-mike-tyson-567242849.jpg)

Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: MoralMan on January 05, 2016, 03:11:47 PM
That's gypo Joe Egan in the middle.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on January 05, 2016, 05:09:12 PM
Tyson talked about him and Holyfield having an unspoken convo about having the better built body. Evander brought in Lee Haney to train him with weights. Tyson saying he didn't train with weights is him trying to rewrite history.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: fredrollon on January 05, 2016, 06:45:36 PM
I met him once when he came over to congratulate me once on a boxing win. (EDIT) Actually, i feel bad for slagging him off. He really was just a decent, genuine guy.

And a young Tyson did lift weights, just not like a bodybuilding routine. He lifted them when he was in borstal and he would train with them intermittently, but mainly as a boxing routine He would do barbell shrugs, neck bridges, press-ups and go for jogs with a 50lb backpack on, as Cus believed it would stop him from growing too tall and ruining his fighting style.  

Read that one before. I'm calling BS on it,right now. Just like with bodybuilder's routines, there's a lot of nonsense online, concerning the training routines of fighters.  :D  


Not sure about the barbell shrugs either. In all the video's and first person accounts it seems ,pre-prison,Tyson just did the standard boxer's routines and exercises.


Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: disco_stu on January 06, 2016, 12:20:46 AM
Pretty obvious he did gear, even moreso later in his career. Anywho I'm sure he did all kinds of exercises, based on what he needed to improve. He had the heart of a lion no doubt. It's a shame he stoped taking his training seriously after cus died. After that he was just running on rage.

the guy won a bunch of fights over about 3 years- not even. at a time where there was questionable quality of opponents. then at the first sign of a challenge, he wilted like a flower.

he made a brief life out of being an angry bully and nothing more. he's entertainment value now. its quite pathetic.

in no way did Tyson have a heart of a Lion.

Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: Bulgarian_enforcer on January 06, 2016, 02:19:43 AM
the guy won a bunch of fights over about 3 years- not even. at a time where there was questionable quality of opponents. then at the first sign of a challenge, he wilted like a flower.

he made a brief life out of being an angry bully and nothing more. he's entertainment value now. its quite pathetic.

in no way did Tyson have a heart of a Lion.



Becoming HW champion of the world at the age of 20 does not require courage i guess? You obviously don't know what your are talking about.
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: njflex on January 06, 2016, 06:21:15 AM
Tyson talked about him and Holyfield having an unspoken convo about having the better built body. Evander brought in Lee Haney to train him with weights. Tyson saying he didn't train with weights is him trying to rewrite history.
SAME WITH HERSHEL WALKER ..
Title: Re: Mike Tyson never lifted weights
Post by: HTexan on January 06, 2016, 01:17:10 PM
SAME WITH HERSHEL WALKER ..
Hershel walker did a shitload of body weight exercises. I think a lot of this guys, didn't do weights as much as a lot of current athletes because their used to be a misconception that lifting weight would hurt you performance.