I've seen articles with Renzo, Egan Inoue, and JJMachado where they go over their weight training schedule and what excercises they think are the best for complementing grappling training. I think they all seemed to stress pulling excercises (like flys and curls) but there wasn't anything that groundbreaking about their regimens. JJM said he preferred machines to free wieghts. None of them appeared to be trying to gain weight or muscle mass.
On the other hand, Ken Shamrock sings a altogether different tune in his book. He has his fighters lift 5 sets with reps 5-4-3-2-1 respectively. The set of 5 is supposed to be about 75% and the final lift is supposed to be your max possible. By the way, the only reason the Lion's Den wasn't cleaning house in Abu Dhabhi was only because they don't train grappling to that extreme, their focus has always been MMA. It's a safe bet that if they concentrated on trying to win Abu Dhabhi they would be very successful there too. All the Lion's Den guys are super strong, even the smaller guys so you'd have to agree they are somewhat bulked up from weight training whereas a guy like JJM or Renzo would probably weight roughly the same whether they lifted or not.
I think the important concept is that all the top fighters do lift weights, however they may.
Last edited by Mr. Miyagi; 04-21-2001 at 01:54 PM.
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