Michael Johnson said he'd never felt anyone so strong in all his life but I dont think Khabib lifts.
In this video he only does bodyweight workouts https://youtu.be/h31CITXa9aY and in this article the no weight lifting regime is reiterated http://rosstraining.com/blog/2014/03/27/old-school-training-khabib-nurmagomedov/
Everything I read says you need weightlifting to improve strength and power but if this is the case then how is Khabib doing it with just bodyweight, running and grappling?
Naturally strong? Functional strength from a lifetime of grappling?
You don't need weight lifting.
Wrestlers (american collegiate) really didn't begin to lift weights until about 50 years ago.
You just need another resisting body to push and pull against.
He tosses men around all day long, and they toss him around.
All those strong, sweaty, greasy, Russian men with little clothes on. Tossing each other left and right.
Thatll get you nice and strong, so much protein involved and testosterone (testys as they call them)
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ranier wolfcastle -
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Lmao
It isn't muscular strength that Johnson could feel. It was Allah's will.
Body weight lifts tend to provide more functional strength imo.
Lifting creates great strength, but it is isolated strength and the strength is limited to specific ranges of motion. Then consider that his strength isn't rep based, it's just all day long strength from body weight regimes. Johnson might very well have an advantage for 20-30 seconds, but then he begins to anaerobically gas out, and Khabib is still there giving zero fucks.
ranier wolfcastle -Haha i had posted this on reddit as well and someone found a video of him doing dumb bells... fail
Lol
Osbot -Body weight lifts tend to provide more functional strength imo.
Lifting creates great strength, but it is isolated strength and the strength is limited to specific ranges of motion. Then consider that his strength isn't rep based, it's just all day long strength from body weight regimes. Johnson might very well have an advantage for 20-30 seconds, but then he begins to anaerobically gas out, and Khabib is still there giving zero fucks.
My cod this broscience.
danybayamon23 -He tosses men around all day long, and they toss him around.
All those strong, sweaty, greasy, Russian men with little clothes on. Tossing each other left and right.
Thatll get you nice and strong, so much protein involved and testosterone (testys as they call them)
Men
You want strong and greasy... you need Turkish oil wrestling.
...and this thread is a wrap
Of course he lifts weights
RenatoCocopreta -Osbot -Body weight lifts tend to provide more functional strength imo.
Lifting creates great strength, but it is isolated strength and the strength is limited to specific ranges of motion. Then consider that his strength isn't rep based, it's just all day long strength from body weight regimes. Johnson might very well have an advantage for 20-30 seconds, but then he begins to anaerobically gas out, and Khabib is still there giving zero fucks.
My cod this broscience.
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The myth that bodyweight and calisthenics build functional strength than weightlifting has been blown away long ago.
Unfortunately there are people using weights poorly (like Cain Velasquez or Rich Franklin), and they would be better off just using bodyweight and gymnastics to build strength. But theres nothing more functionally strong than an explosive hip girdle developed through squats, cleans, snatches and presses.
he has that combination of wrestling strength and country boy strength like Matt Hughes
From the pics, it looks looks he ,at least, does some lifting.
With that being said, some are born so freaking strong that weightlifting doesn't need to be done to maintain or even increase strength the way us mere mortals train.
People excel in their chosen sport partly because of that tremendous strength they are born with. Does gymnastics or wrestling make people strong , or do people who excel in those sports just happen to be strong ? Participating in those sports will increase strength, for sure, but strong people happen to excel in those sports. People often underestimate the power of genetics.
I have seen guys, in wrestling over the years, that look like bodybuilders and all but refuse to lift. My kids are gymnasts and you can see two teenagers that have both done the same gymnastics workouts, on the same team, for over 10 years with neither ever lifting weights. One is jacked while the other just looks to be in shape. Both are strong, I'm sure, but their bodies are just shaped differently, have differing amounts of muscle tissue, and respond differently to stimulus.
The average person's body will breakdown to the kind of intense training that a "real" athlete's body will respond positively to.