Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Now THIS is a serious KB workout for Martial artists and boxers

11 comments:

Royce said...

Saw taht on youtube under "dirty boxing" or something.
Wouldn't want to run into that guy in a dark alley!!!!!

ashe higgs said...

holy cow, what asmall world! that's the i liq chuan wu guan in moscow!

Franz Snideman said...

Yikes! Reminds me of the new Rocky Movie where Rocky is punching with giant dumbbells in his hand. Not sure I agree with the sport specific concept of trying to duplicate sporting motions with weights.

Either way,that guy is strong!

Tom Furman said...

Fedor does kipping pullups therefore Crossfit must be right;-)

Mark Reifkind said...

franz,
funny, I didnt see it that way as trying to emulate the exact movement but something that would build continuous strength in the range of motion of that movement.obviously it would be amuch slowly movement than the boxing correlate but still looks like it has lots of value to me.
especially for mma guys who need so much rotations strength with the demands of boxing grappling and throwing.

Mark Reifkind said...

ashe,
what is the i liq chuan wu gaun? a dojo?

Mark Reifkind said...

tom, crossfits not right ;}}?

ashe higgs said...

mark,

yeah, i liq chuan is a style (the one i train in actually ;-) ) and wu guan is the chinese term for dojo (basically)

ashe higgs said...

BTW, i don't think it would translate very well vis-a-vis striking but i do see a lot of potential carry over to throwing.

Mark Reifkind said...

"BTW, i don't think it would translate very well vis-a-vis striking but i do see a lot of potential carry over to throwing. "

ashe, I agree. can't see where it would hurt but I'm not a striker so I can't be sure.looks good for serious rotation all around strength and I bet there is a carryover.

Tim Dymmel said...

I just thought it was funny that his grunts were in russian.

205, 215, 217.5,205 x 1 x 6, 190 x 1 x 3, laterals, rear delts bw pushups

 Well this went great. not perfect but the basic premise worked and I'm happy. I was not optimistic at all about this at all given recen...