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Help with a wrestling workout...?
I'm 6 foot, weigh about 147, 5 percent body fat.
For the past month I've been power lifting, the old 3 sets of 8 bench press, squats and other exercises to get stronger. It has worked too getting my bench up 20 pounds. But I read in an article that wrestlers who power lift become a lot slower during the season, and don't hit their moves as quickly. The articale also said they should be doing more bodyweight exercises, like push ups, chin ups and dips. Should I continue to power lift, or shuld i switch up my routine and start doing these body weight exercises more?
BTW the wrestling section has been taken over by those ppl who watch tna and wwe. real wrestling is close to a martial art.
1 Answer
- Rob BLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
3 sets of 8 will not help you, it will build slow twitch muscles which will make you stronger, but slower. Try lower weights and more reps. At the end of your workout when you're tired, you need to be doing explosive drills with the muscles you just worked out. Like clapping pushups and vertical leaps for bench presses and squats. Those will help you build "fast twitch" muscles which help your speed.
This being a martial arts forum, you should read Bruce Lee's writings on speed. There are different kinds of speed and things you can do that make you seem faster to your opponent without actually moving faster.
Good luck.
