Such as muscle ups, front levers, planche, one arm pull ups, etc?
Is their current level of strength and athleticism (from regular mma training) enough to perform them, or would they need to train specifically for these movements?
I doubt they can do Planches. But the other stuff I wouldn't be surprised
George Srotonopolis used to love Calisthenics
Gotta think t.ferg can do some weird shit
icecap -Such as muscle ups, front levers, planche, one arm pull ups, etc?
Is their current level of strength and athleticism (from regular mma training) enough to perform them, or would they need to train specifically for these movements?
No, you don't randomly develop the strength to do planches and levers. You have to train for that stuff specifically.
HULC -icecap -Such as muscle ups, front levers, planche, one arm pull ups, etc?
Is their current level of strength and athleticism (from regular mma training) enough to perform them, or would they need to train specifically for these movements?
No, you don't randomly develop the strength to do planches and levers. You have to train for that stuff specifically.
In that case, how beneficial would these exercises be for a combat sports athlete? I would imagine pretty beneficial, especially more so in MMA than boxing. Why then do I not see much of these movements done?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibasZ0P0UrA
The serious athletes can. I've seen videos of Conor and Gsp doing reps of muscle ups.
icecap -HULC -icecap -Such as muscle ups, front levers, planche, one arm pull ups, etc?
Is their current level of strength and athleticism (from regular mma training) enough to perform them, or would they need to train specifically for these movements?
No, you don't randomly develop the strength to do planches and levers. You have to train for that stuff specifically.
In that case, how beneficial would these exercises be for a combat sports athlete? I would imagine pretty beneficial, especially more so in MMA than boxing. Why then do I not see much of these movements done?
Because they're not worth it. The amount of time and effort you'd have to out into developing these is time and effort that you can't put towards improving as an MMAer. The same reason you don't see many people developing into elite level power lifters or marathon runners while also training in MMA. You can't train to reach elite levels of performance in multiple different sports at the same time.
Wasn't Glover into this kind of stuff with Hackleman at one point.
BigTedBear -Wasn't Glover into this kind of stuff with Hackleman at one point.
That was before he got too old for that shit
King of Ducks -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibasZ0P0UrA
Seeing him next to Rashad made me realize that Hannibal is much smaller than I'd previously thought. Still incredibly impressive though.
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HULC -icecap -HULC -icecap -Such as muscle ups, front levers, planche, one arm pull ups, etc?
Is their current level of strength and athleticism (from regular mma training) enough to perform them, or would they need to train specifically for these movements?
No, you don't randomly develop the strength to do planches and levers. You have to train for that stuff specifically.
In that case, how beneficial would these exercises be for a combat sports athlete? I would imagine pretty beneficial, especially more so in MMA than boxing. Why then do I not see much of these movements done?
Because they're not worth it. The amount of time and effort you'd have to out into developing these is time and effort that you can't put towards improving as an MMAer. The same reason you don't see many people developing into elite level power lifters or marathon runners while also training in MMA. You can't train to reach elite levels of performance in multiple different sports at the same time.
I suppose you would have to focus a huge part of your strength and conditioning program to calisthenics in order to master these techniques. Since most S&C coaches don't do this, the current assumption is that it's not beneficial enough to sink the time and energy into.
Fair enough