He would be an idiot to not use performance enhancing drugs with how prevalent it is in ALL sports. Even tennis players are using them. It allows you to train more often because your recovery is substantially faster. Still requires a fuckload of work to maintain those kinds of physiques.
Dude I’m from Australia I look up to guys like Mark Hunt and Tai Tuivasa their all natural islanders fighting in an organisation where guys are on the juice
I’ve been saying drug cheats from the US (and a bunch of other Northern Hemisphere countries) are going to be cooked when Aussie & Kiwi fighters get on board the juice-train too.
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I was listening to a Joe Rogan podcast where he was talking about true strength like this. He was saying if you really want to get very strong work out every day, and then go do a manual labour job for 10 hours a day. If you can do both things. Then you will get both kinds of strength.
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Wrists and grip strength are crucial for most work, but tend to be neglected by body builders. Not that lifting weights doesn't train grip strength, it's just that you're usually limited by other muscles.
Source: My grip strength, one handed, is nearly my max squat
I know this is way too late (just saw reddit had a thing for reply notifications [I don't post much]).
I 100% do not disagree with you in general. Though, you ever go to a gym and lift more than your friends on some lifts and less on others?
The muscles a manual laborer uses daily can certainly mean they could outperform those bigger than them. That does not mean in every single thing they do that result would be the same.
Sure I agree with you. There's also skeletal advantages in lifts. That being said I don't think the manual laborer has more "specialized muscles". I just think it's hand placement on the bags and leverage
There are a handful of bodybuilders who also train for strength. Ronnie Coleman, Stan Efferding, etc. Honestly if you are just trying to increase size there isn't a ton of benefit versus the risk of injury to go very heavy. I competed in powerlifting for over 10 years, and now I am pushing 50 I am doing more bodybuilding type shit because I don't want more injuries.
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u/WHALE_BOY_777 Feb 25 '25
What's even crazier is that Ngannou is huge in addition to having real strength.