Just saw him training on Bosu Balls in UFC All Access. Charles Poliquin be damned!!
throws out kettlebells, goes to Modell's to buy Bosu Balls
I think he reads the S&C forum and does the opposite of the post de jour.
LOL@BOSU BALLS...
Matt Huges can do what ever he wants. If he wants to waste his time on a Bosu...So be it.
TAKU
Taku, what is a bosu ball? How is it used?
I hate to ask another man how he uses his balls but in this case I'll make an exception.
Oh man, even Erik Morales is using swiss ball/bosu balls now.
throws out barbells
Go here for all you could possibly want to know...
They wont make you a better athlete.
TAKU
Unless you're a trainer, and use them to make money, which spend on better food or a better trainer.... or unless you're selling them, and use the money to... (zzzzz... snore....)
they are designed to make you look like you know something other people don't without in any way increasing your athletic potential.
Imagine how much better Matt Hughes and Erik Morales would be if they just ditched the BOSU.
It boggles the mind.
They probably wouldn't be a bit better.
Most of the cream of the crop are great irregardless how they train not because of it.
I think Walter Payton did bodyweight conditioning with some extra resistance with his wife or girlfriend sitting on his back when he did push ups and he was by far one of the greatest running backs ever.
I think it was an article on by one of the Westside guys that said that the starters for most college teams had a stronger power clean and higher vertical jump than their peers. But it wasn't because they practiced these things, it was because they were built with the right body type to excel at these tests.
A well tuned training program may lift a mediocre competitor to the elite level but most elite level athletes are elite because of their own personal drive to be great and their training no matter how flaky is done with crazy intensity and focus.
Elite athletes are elite because they were born with a genetic predisposition towards being bigger, faster, stronger and more coordinated and managed to make it through their developmental years without messing it all up.
Guess it's time for Matt to throw out the Bosu balls?
At first I thought this was a thread about Matt getting KICKED in his Bosu Balls a couple of times in that fight.
After seeing the fight Saturday evening we can all determine one thing.
BOSU = Loser.
TAKU
Erik Morales lost on Saturday too. Guess the BOSU was 0-2 for the night.
PFP:
that's right!! Morales was training bosu balls too!
0-2 for the Bosu!
Dogmeat, that is a straw man argument. Nobody is saying elite athletes don't have to train at all, my point was that as long as they don't mess it up by say going to prison or deciding not to play sports, they will raise to the top.
Many elite athletes certainly work incredibly hard (perhaps because they were born with better recovery abilities) but there are plenty of stories of guys who just showed up and did much better than others who had been training their whole lives (Jim Thorpe, for example).
BOSU 0-2...Ha ha!!
TAKU <-------knows the Bosu does not make great athletes.
Bosu has a good guard.
(Has toddseney pointed out that Bosu balls don't hit back yet?)