Nacho Beristain: Marquez doesn't have the speed!

[Rocky Balboa]

Weird...

One thing: weightlifting doesn't make you slow if you do it properly. The question is: is JMM doing it properly?

Maybe lifting rocks has turned out to be a bad choice

[the inbetweener]

Weird...

One thing: weightlifting doesn't make you slow if you do it properly. The question is: is JMM doing it properly?

Maybe lifting rocks has turned out to be a bad choice

Finally, someone speaking sense. Explosive weight training, if done right, would not decrease the speed of a fighter. In fact, it could make him faster. That old myth that resistance training stiffens the body and loses flexibility is so out-dated it's unbelievable. Bigger muscles are as flexible as smaller ones and if he combines heavy lifting (incorporating fast twitch muscle fibres), with plyometrics, he could actually improve his hand and foot speed as well as his conditioning.

If you want to talk about speed, look at olympic sprinters - built for speed (okay, not hand speed).



Not exactly a stranger to the weights room, is he?

So, either Beristain is so old school he doesn't have a clue, or it's all mind games.