Rival Gear, any good?
I have, much to my regret, finally worn out my old Cleto training gloves after nearly 5 years of use.
So, I’ll need a new set of gloves. I’ve been looking at Rival boxing products latley and it looks pretty good. Seems to be quality gear with lots of nice features that isn’t too expensive.
Anyone tried any of their stuff (their training gloves in particular) and can comment on it’s quality?
Hulk Hogan could beat all these guys. There is no answer to the ATOMIC LEG DROP.
Wow, that’s expensive. For that much chedda I could just get another pair of Cletos and still have enough left over to buy some new shoes.
I was looking at their bag gloves for prices, which aren’t too bad (and in fact I’ll probably get a pair of them), but it looks like their training gloves are pretty ludicrous.
As cocky as he is, if he properly crosstrains, a guy with the strength and size of Brock Lesnar could be a force in MMA.
He’s already a very good wrestler, he just needs some striking and subs to become a white, skilled Bob Sapp.
I’d definatley agree he should earn his title shot like everyone else, though.
Muay Thai doesn’t teach the atomic leg drop, flying elbow or crippler crossface, thus it is worthless.
Also, I’d have to agree that if you taught a boxer how to check kicks, he’d probably unleash some serious hurtin on kickboxers, who tend to neglect proper punching for kicks.
Weight gainers are standard whey mixed with maltodextrin or even cake mix. They’re fine for PWO shakes, but they are a bit overpriced. You can accomplish the same thing with a handful of oats or a scoop of maltodextrin in a regular whey shake.
If you really want to gain weight, eat every 2 hours, and eat untill you feel sick every time. Assuming you have a good lifting program (one with regular, heavy squats, deads and rows) you will gain weight.
The best ab wheel exercise is throwing it away and doing squats.
what.
Have fun getting your guts cut from your chest cavity when you go to thai clinch or grapple someone on the streets.
As for me, I’d rather throw a right straight and then run the fuck away.
Just because kickboxers can get knockouts doesn’t mean they’re fantastic punchers. Punching someone out isn’t that tough to do. Punching someone out who trains to not get punched out is a little tougher.
Also, checking low kicks isn’t that tough, and trying to use a high or even body kick on a boxer would result in you getting your face smashed via straights or hooks, and probably knocked down, being as you’re standing on one leg.
Muay thai guys tend to have stances that work great for the weight transfer for kicking, but against an opponent who bobs and weaves like a boxer, they’d miss and find themselves terribly exposed and off balance every time they went above the waist.
Now, if you really wanted to argue agaist boxing, you’d use it’s weakness compared to Muay Thai in the clinch, which is something I’d totally agree with.
It’s a mistake to think more moves means more effectivness. The cat may have only one way to escape the dog, whereas the fox has hundreds, but in the moment of truth, the cat’s simple stratgey will often beat out the fox’s cunning plans.
Apparently Mr. Kos is learning to strike.
He strikes so well he can cause a tear in spacetime that makes him turn into bizzaro Koscheck who can be outwrestled by a french speaker.
protip: that boxer is 43 years old in that fight. Only Randy Couture can win at that age.
I’d agree with that. Give someone the hands of Vitali Klitschko with the knees and clinch of Wanderlei Silva and they’d be pretty much unstoppable on their feet.
Bam Margera.
Not because he’d offer any reasonable challenge, but because that douchebag REALLY needs to have his face broken.
'Sup Sodak brotha.
How are the falls these days? Still hot as hell and foul smelling?
Culled from here: http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=59116
BigPopp, stop fucking around in the PT threads.
ok sorry brah I’ll not comment anymore when someone’s training style or equipment sucks, despite that being more or less the entire point of this site.
i’ll just revert to LOL AIKIDO NINJERS!
Oh, the irony. You don’t seem to get it. You can make a comment, so long as it is a useful one. Telling someone to ditch an ab wheel, which is a great tool when used in conjuction with a good training routine in favor of squats, that’s just fucking stupid.
You don’t know what the person’s goals are, you don’t know whether the person can do squats or not (there are a myriad reasons some people can’t.) You were not helping; you were just making noise - oh, look what I can do. I just told someone over the internet to go do squats, har, har har.
Fuck that shit. You are welcome to help others constructively if you feel inclined to. Otherwise, shut the fuck out and stay away from the PT forums.
the ab wheel is a useful tool? since when.
if you want to get stronger you do compound lifts. if you want PHAT ABZ, you do weighted situps and reduce body fat. the ab wheel is a fantastic way to spend money on something you can do with a 25 pound weight plate and a chair.
Just buy a 25 pound weight plate and do weighted situps.
It’s worked for boxers for roughly 200 years, and it still works great today.
Also it costs around 10 bucks, and unlike an ab wheel, can be used for other exercises.
The ab wheel costs like $5.
Everybody knows compound lifts are the best for strength and everybody knows you don’t get abs without dieting.
However, as Teh El Macho stated, the ab wheel can be a useful tool in a sound exercise program.
The ab wheel helps you work a lot of stabilizer muscles along with your abs. Just a couple ‘rolls’ from your toes (no, not your knees) will make most people sore in most if not all their abdominal muscles, including their obliques, which are hard to workout and usually require isolation exercises that are often ineffective.
Your stupidy is just fucking immense. Everybody knows that to get stronger one does compound lifts. But to assume that’s all you do is fucking stupid. The ab wheel and similar artifacts are in fact is used by strongmen and powerlifters every now.
And you are comparing an ab wheel to sit ups using a 25lbs plate. What the blubbery fuck???
You have never done or used an ab wheel. Never. I don’t even have a clue how many sit ups I can do with a 45lbs plate in a row. With the ab wheel I can barely do 8 reps with the knees off the ground (not to mentioned the ab wheel hits a lot more muscles than sit ups.)
And you are going to tell me you can replace one with the other? What type of cheap weed you are smoking. You are just talking out of your ass.
Weighted sit ups don’t even come close to how an ab wheel works your core. Sit ups with 25lbs plate. If you think that’s a challenging ab exercise, you have no clue what the fuck you are talking about. Not to mention that, unlike situps, the ab wheel hits a lot more muscles (hip flexors, abs, obliques, erector spinae, lats, triceps).
The compount lifts that hits my abs the most are standing overhead presses and front squats, and none of them massacre the abs and core like a good set of ab wheel up and downs with only the toes on the floor. Don’t fucking tell me that an ab wheel doesn’t help in getting stronger. The Westside guys use a similar device, not on the same manner, but just to show that certain gadgets have their place when used as part of a solid training routine. Other individuals who know their shit, like Ross Enamait, uses them. I clearly remember seeing the olympic lifters in college using them as well. Maybe you know more than them
Perhaps, in your ignorance, you think we are talking about the ab wheels like what you see in those silly informercials where they sell the ab wheel as the only solution to fat burn, “spot reduction”, and as a cure to cancer and erectal disfunction.
Also, this was not about spending money. The OP clearly stated he got it from a charity shop, so clearly he wasn’t spending a lot in it. Now that the person has it, what’s the logical thing to do? To find good use, or to throw it away?
Your post wasn’t about helping or giving sound advice. It just about making a post on the internet, telling somebody to do squats. Har, har, har. Bravo to you.
You have no clue what the fuck you are talking about, you have never used an ab wheel, you have never seen a true lifter using them, and I seriously question anything you have to say if you think an ab wheel is the same as doing weighted sit ups (and hahahaha on your advise for doing sit ups with 25lbs plates.)