Many of you laugh at Matt Furey for his body conditioning muscle courses. I admit he can come off like a huckster, but as far as I know Gymnasts do not lift weights and look at their developement! Furey, Body by Fish and some of the other body weight only guys, make some sense. (not that I would give up my weights just yet :)[/quote]
I completely agree. I get seriously annoyed with Mr. Furey’s anti-weightlifting rants and propoganda, but his bodyweight exercises do work, and work pretty well. Scrapper comes off a lot better because he advocates bodyweight exercises, but doesn’t rant against traditional weight lifting.
I think a program that integrates both weight lifting and bodyweight exercises can be very useful.
Thank you. You saved me having to say that exact same thing. I honestly believe that wrestlers are probably about the best overall athletes around. I can’t think of any other sport that requires the same level of strength, flexibility, conditioning, and effort. And as for physique, with the exception of the heavyweight class, you will almost never find a wrestler with more than an ounce of fat on them. These guys can’t afford to carry any fat, because every pound of fat they carry is one more pound of muscle their opponent could have on them.
I still remember back in High School, when I played football and wrestling. At the beginning of the wrestling season, I went into it thinking that practice would be a piece of cake, and that football practice would have me prepared.
Damn was I wrong. Halfway through that first day of wrestling, I thought I was going to die.
And the single most exhausting mosment of my life, that I can remember, was at the end of a wrestling match. I was wrestling a guy that was about as closely matched as could be against me. I ended up winning by a single point, and after the referee raised my hand to signal victory, I turned around and fell to my knees. I practically had to be helped off the mat, because I so fried from the match.
Wrestlers[1] rule.
[1] Amateur wrestlers, anyway. “Professional” wrestling is a joke.
Regarding Crawford, Mo Greene, and sprinters in general.
Crawford is way over 165. I know that listing came from USATF or the Olympic site or whatever. Those listings are from a LOOOONG Time ago. Crawford also benches 365 lbs. according to his training partner. This article is also on the Olympic site.
Find a picture of Linford Christie. He is 6’2 and 205 in his later years. He has stated himself that he got up to 215+ in the off season. I have seen some listings that show him at 170 or so. Which would be when he first began competing.
Yeah their low bodyfat, dark skin, and dense muscle makes these guys look bigger than they may actually be, but they are not small.
Check out Dwain Chambers 6’ and a definite 200+.
One thing about them most are quite muscular, all are not, but watch the finals, maybe one out of 8 will be “small”. And all of them are lean.
NFL Halfback Michael Bennett flirted with thoughts of qualifying for the U.S. Olympic teams in the 100 and 200 meters, but instead decided to make his gold medal a division title by outracing Green Bay for the NFC North crown.
“Right now, I’m a 10-flat in the 100,” Bennett said. “I’m a little heavier than I would run in a meet. I’m about 210. Normally, I would run at 205. You look at the trials and third place was 10.02. My fastest would have automatically put me in there.”
Then there’s more article, but I wont put that. But get this. his meet weight is 205…and he’s 5’9!
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if you saw him compete at sacremento live (and yes, i was lucky enough)
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I too was lucky enough to attend the Trials. From the stands those guys look huge but up close you realize that they aren’t big.
After the atheletes left the media area the gate put them out into the public section. I was in that area right after the 200 semi’s and stood right next to Crawford et al. He’s very average in size. He might be 5-10 pounds heavier than the 165 he’s listed at but by no means is he “jacked”.
I competed in competitive (Canadian)gymnastic’s,if there even is such a thing (lol)for 12 years from ages 5 - 17. The guys I trained with most of the time didn’t train a whole lot with weight’s at all. Everything was all done with our own body weight.
These guys are also jacked to the tits because the train like 3-4 hours a day with their own body weight.Plus I’m sure if you are olympian stature they must have some kind sport specific training program they do daily.
Look at this picture of the Women’s Olympic gold medalist in the all around this year. This was taken in 2001 so she must have been about 13 or 14. She’s in the middle in the green. The abs are just insane for any female, especially at 13 or 14.
everything, i worship the guy… 5’11, 210 pounds, 4.4 40, benches 430 pounds (in 1.2 seconds too, think about that) squats 550, and can you hit you so fucking hard you’ll wish you never woke up, i got his workout dvd (with a bit of skepticisim) but after i incorporated some of the safer techniques that he and jay schroeder use, i saw immediate results…
if you have any questions about archuletta, im pretty sure i can answer them (although no one is too informed about jay’s specific training method as he has a habit of keeping them secret)
(for those who dont know, archuletta is a safety for the St. Louis Rams, and has a warped training program which will include certain things such as lifting bench 13 days straight, drop 300 pounds on him and having him throw it up and catching it, droping him from high altitudes and making him catch himself in a pushup position, its crazy)
