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Posted On:
1/21/2003 11:01am
Style: Tai Chi & TKD--
The only way I lift is like a bodybuilder. I suppose it's what I'm used to & the only way I know how. I stop lifting about two weeks before a martial arts tournament & feel great! I don't think my bodybuilder methods hinder my performance whatsoever.
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Posted On:
1/21/2003 11:11am
Style: Karate/Muay Thai--
Just so long as you WORK at keeping the flexibility, etc. you're fine. The problem is that most of the "weekend warrior" builders don't stretch, don't warm up and don't do anything but get huge...so they just tighten and tighten.
Kills the body alignment too, if you're not careful. You sound like you know your stuff though, DD, so more power to you!
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Posted On:
1/21/2003 10:49pm
Style: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu--
When I said you don't get huge doing free weights, it was meant just because you lift free weights doesn't mean your going to be huge.
The unaturally huge guys that you see at the gym are probably on juice, or have been lifting for 20+ years.
It takes an extremely long amount of time to get the natural strength and size of some of these guys, and they still look bad and have poor agility to do tons of excess body fat.
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Posted On:
1/22/2003 6:46am
Style: Kakutogi--
Just cameback from my lunchtime workout. I was talking big ****. I was lifting 410lbs. Feeling good. THEN my BN Commander comes over and says, "You kids!" throws on 20lbs and throws it up!!!! Me and my partner were like, "Fucking NO NECK having bastard, Sir" He replies, "Don't worry someday you will be a real boy!" (Thats MY line. I was going to slap him but that didn't seem smart.)
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Posted On:
1/22/2003 8:36am
Style: Brazilian Jiujitsu--
Your BN commander? WTF? I caught one of my old BN commanders saluting a tree. You think I'm kidding...
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Posted On:
1/22/2003 9:00am
Style: Kakutogi--
Yeah our BN CDR is pretty hardcore he's built like a linebacker, pretty active and his favorite sports are football and Pro wrestling. A newbie trick we like to pull (this actually started with the BN CSM) is to tell them that when he they see the BN CDR to let him know that Pro wrestling is FAKE!!! He will have them in his office locked up watching his hommage to Triple H with him screaming "SEE THAT! THAT'S REAL BLOOD!"
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"I love you Asia" - I Give BJJs Posted - December 25 2002 : 10:40:09______
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Posted On:
1/22/2003 10:49am
Style: Tai Chi & TKD--
Crimson Tiger, you're right about the flexibility. I'm nowhere near as flexible as I was during the days that I loathed weightlifting. There are ways around it though. Look at Van Damme. He's pretty big and has great flexibility. Russ Testo, the Physique Artist Extraordinaire, is still big and flexible at 50+ years-old. I think 'roid freak Flex Wheeler still does the splits during his posing routines.
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Style: judo