josh20150602 / November 30, 2006 Rocky Balboa (Rocky 6) Trailer Don’t call it a comeback, he’s been here for years. Bodybuilding style training for fighters, on the other hand, is over. Rocky gets functional. And I’m not talking about doing dumbbell presses sitting on a Swiss ball. I’m talking about full body functional lifts like cleans, jerks, and snatches. Generating power from the ground up. You gotta check that Rocky is doing barbell clean and jerks, and one arm kettlebell snatches. In the fan edited training montage, he’s even doing clean and jerks with cables, which I’d never seen before. He’s hitting tires with a sledgehammer. He’s doing weighted pullups. It’s total Underground Strength Coach stuff. If you’re new to the "Olympic Lifts" like cleans, jerks, and snatches, kettlebells are a great place to start. Kettlebells have a short learning curve, and are fun to use. Kettlebell training has been pretty popular in the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Mixed Martial Arts world for a while (Steve Maxwell, Frank Shamrock, Saulo Ribeiro) but has just started to catch on in the boxing world. If you’re a fighter, or if you just want to get into "fighting shape", you absolutely have to check into full body lifts like the clean and jerk and the snatch. Doesn’t matter if you use kettlebells or barbells (Rocky uses both) or even dumbbells.
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