What most losers into "bodybuilding" don't understand is FUNCTIONAL MUSCLE.
theres no functional muscle crap.
either theyre strong or not.
the size of muscle doesnt say much about the strenght,though.or, it doesnt say everything.
but agassi was never repping out legal slow reps with 300 for sets,lol.
ill believe it when i see it,simple as.
The serve takes as you say a great deal of technique, I've played quite a bit of tennis and am shit at it, i can't hit the ball too hard in a game or it tends to go out the court lol, but just chucking a ball in the air and hitting it in any fashion(direction no issue) i would take a bet i could hit the ball harder than a lot of people who i wouldn't be able to win a single game against on a court.
Of course someone who has never picked up a tennis racket before would be a different issue. And I think once you get past a certain size like the Ramis and Pianas you greatly lose any athleticism you may have had, so better comparisons in such things would be guys that are big and naturally athletic, but not past the point where wiping their own arse is not possible.
better not take that bet.
not on forehand, not on backhand,and especialy not on a serve shot.
sometimes theres those speed cameras in shopping centers and you can measure your speed of your hits.
try one of them, youll see its nowhere near where one initialy believes it to be.
the tennis players hit the ball much much harder than ppl would think.lol esp when controlling the ball and hitting the corut is no issue, you can forget about coming remotley close.
they can hit controled forehand shot at over 100mph no problem.
they can hit controled serves at 120mph no problem(males)
a good server will also have a decent baseball speed, throwing just the ball.technique is somewhat similiar.
thats right, amateur with no control,nothing to hit wont even come close to tennis player who hits the target within few square inches.
its just too complex movement to build up any decent speed without years of practice.
that said i was competitive tennis player and could and still can hit serve speed of 120mph, but even years into benching i couldnt do proper 300lbs lift.
the 2 movements have nothing to do with eachother.
i mean tennis players at national level, not the beer belly weekend superstars btw.
now sev being able to bench 4 plates is true, lol, but that was roided and after years of training, im sure before he lifted and just played tennis, 4 plates a side would have disemboweled him
Yeah, I believe a 300+ bench for a man of Agassi's body frame and weight. Also believe in trust but verify, but in his case it's plausible. Some guy's are just born with correct bone leverage and muscle structure to be natural pressers. Same as others being natural squatters or DL'ers. And they don't always have mounds of masses muscles to do it. Some can be somewhat lean or average looking, though muscular. Muscle size does not always mean better strength.
High school kids handle 300+ quite well and their bodies are not near fully mature to take advantage of theie full strength potential. Benching strengthen the lats/bac/traps also.
Strength also increases speed. With tennis, it is the pulling action of the event, not pushing (not going to press the ball over the net). Given that, Agassi's natural pull must also be strong. Just born with good Iranian genetics.
lol, man, relax, agassi is lying or he used some kind of machine.
