Friday, November 4, 2011

Are olympic weight lifters/powerlifters stronger then martial artists and MMA fighers ( read below ) ?

There are men who are both lifters and martial artists. Indeed, the best martial artists train with weights. Bruce Lee was a bodybuilder for a while and built himself up to 165 lbs. He always trained with weights. An Olympic lifter is obviously much stronger than a man who is a martial artist and not a lifter. Barbell exercise makes people much stronger. I have seen some extremely strong martial artists in action. Men of normal strength are often totally helpless against such men. If everything else is equal, the stronger man prevails. Strongmen have thick and hard muscles that is armor in effect. Wang Xu-Qin broke the fists of many men who punched his tough body, and Frank Richards allowed men to hit him full force with sledge hammers in the abdomen. Two of my good friends date giant powerlifters-martial artists. A 250 lbs. man hit the 454 lbs. man in the solar plexus with all his strength using a gold club, and the giant just grinned. An even bigger man broke his hand punching him there. Some naive people who hang out in this category badly underestimate powerlifters. This forum is for real questions and answers, not for idle daydreams that can never become real. Technique, speed, coordination and balance are vital in fights, but the giants I know have excellent endowments in all of these factors. Asking for well-informed and relevant answers is often too much to expect from many people in most categories of YA.

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