Not exactly, I don't know from where did you hear it most propably one of skinny manlet around you who't don't have guts to put effort to develop his body with tear and blood like a real man does.
First of all anyone who do sports ( it can be any sport ) is a pyhsically strong person cause of activating all of their muscles on their body. Especially people who lift weights are more likely to be stronger than others who don't. Its also about how those people work out in gym, I always workout heavy and for about 1.5 - 2 hours 3-4 days in week but there are also some other people who lift only light weights for about 30 minutes. Still people who work their muscles are more stronger than average people, even during Paleolithic Ages, Ancient times and Medieaval being muscular was sign of being strong&warrior so it still is.
What about a fight? Fighting is very diffrent thing, I can say fighting is all about techniques and its about how brave you are. Since I also do boxing I saw many good affects on me working out in gym, because after I started to work-out and became stronger I started to deliver more damage to my opponets. Actually people who work out have more advantage against who don't, because muscular guys can actually deliver more damage to their opponet and its proven.
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It's mostly true.
It's not that ripped or muscular guys can't fight. Many professional fighters are ripped. It's really about the focus of the training for most of these guys.
If the guy only lifts weights, and his sole focus is looking ripped, he doesn't care so much about strength and he doesn't train in some form of combat, he can't fight. That's most gym guys. They don't understand technique, they don't have the fighter's mindset. They mostly punch like girls and shit themselves if they end up in a fight with someone who can actually fight.
Then there are guys who don't look impressive physically at all, they look like average guys. They might be a little fat, or they might be skinny. But they've been training and fighting for years. They're usually stronger than they look, fit, they can hit hard, grapple, they've sparred plenty, fought etc. They have a completely different mindset and despite not looking physically impressive it's technique, speed and power that works.
Lol, nah.
It's more accurate to say someone doesn't need to be ripped to know how to fight.
But if someone knows how to fight AND is ripped, you're fucked.
But if it's a contest between two untrained dudes and one goes to the gym, the gymbro wins unless the flabby one gets a lucky shot in. Untrained strength (gym) > no training, no strength (no gym)
It is true that having larger muscles and lower fat doesn’t magically give a guy martial arts training.
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Fighting is complicated. If a guy is heavy and strong, generally the person who hits first will win the fight. I'm not very heavy, actually pretty light for my height, most of the fights I've won have been from being utterly ruthless, throwing the first punch, kick, eye gouge, throwing someone down a flight of stairs, kicking them in the groin, stomping an ankle. Setting an ambush is the best way to fight in my opinion. This comes from learning boxing, tae kwon do, hap ki do, han mu do, jiu jit su, some ai ki do, and MCMAP. It just trains your muscle memory for what to do when you're punch drunk. Breaking limbs, faces, or bodies easier and with less injury to yourself.
I got my ass kicked just about 2 weeks ago though, got punched in the face and knocked right down, guy ran off while I was getting up and starting to reach for a gun.
It's complicated, winding up in jail does not mean winning. I "won" a fight against 2 cops once, then 4 more beat the holy hell out of me and I woke up in a holding cell not knowing if I had felony charges, or any at all. I've kicked a lot of ass, and gotten mine handed to me more times than I can count.
You can look at my crooked nose in my profile picture, that started out straight, and I've reset it every time its been broken, including this last time. Now my nose looks like Caeser's or something from where the smashed up bone and cartilage have met up so many times over the years. The biggest thing to learn about fighting is bring friends, and bring weapons. I don't think gym membership factors into that.
Muscle helps a lot as long as you don't get overconfident. You never know who you're fighting, or how far they're going to take it.I would say that, 9/10 times, this is true. In high school, I was much smaller than most of the other boys, yet I beat the crap out of hockey and football players. They figured their superior strength would work, but I was both faster and trained in martial arts. Same in the military. I was much smaller than most of my male shipmates and soldiers, yet I never lost to them in hand to hand combat. Smaller or less ripped people tend to think more carefully and strategically to compensate for physical disadvantage.
I mean, there are differences between workout routines that optimize strength gains and those that optimize muscle hypertrophy (for aesthetics). But any workout routine is going to both make you stronger and look better--just a higher degree of one than the other, depending on the routine.
So no, the guy in the picture probably couldn't win in a fight against a powerlifter or someone who has specifically trained in a martial art or other fighting technique--but he could still pound anyone who doesn't work out at all.I am considered "ripped" by most people but my body is the result of martial art training from the age of 5 until my mid 20's. In my case I can take care of myself, having 3 different black belts in 3 forms of martial arts (Judo, Jiu jitsu and Tae Kwon Do). But when I turned 40 I decided to hit the gym every day and use supplements to gain weight and muscle mass. I went from having a slim muscular body at 140lbs (I'm 5' 7" tall) to having a body builder type body at 165lbs. I had bigger arms, chest, legs... But what I noticed is that I had lost a lot go agility. As a goaltender playing ice hockey, I noticed I lost flexibility, speed and endurance. I stopped the madness and went back to my old 140lbs and feel much better. My stats as a goaltender went back up exponentially. So in my opinion, I think that a "gym body" is not at all a sign that someone can "fight' or not... training does that. Lifting weight only makes muscles that are "conditi0nned"
NO, your body doesn't determine whether you can fight or not it's your training (past or present) that does. At my MMA dojo our BJJ instructor is a big motherfucker standing 6'4 and 280 lbs in mostly muscle, he's a brown belt in BJJ and kick all our asses. Our head BJJ instructor is a small middle aged woman who holds a black belt in both BJJ and Kyokushin Karate and makes a living training professional fighters (mostly men) and she's a badass too. So anyone with any body type can learn how to fight, whether you're as big as Phil Heath or as small as Yoda.
this is why i box instead, im not a tall guy im only 5'9 and I've taken big ass mfs, besides, muscles can slow down you down if they dont have the proper training, decent sized people can swing faster and nail more jabs then someone like this size in the image above, not to mention dodging someones strikes, with all that weight i can't imagine, they would need to practice fighting too if they want to fight.
There's a difference in saying that guys that go to the gym can't fight, and ripped guys can't fight.
I still wouldn't suggest picking fights with gym ''bros''. They might have horrible technique, but one accurate punch could kill most of us. However, as I said, real fighters, amateur or professional, could easily beat them in a fight.
Depends on what you understand under "can fight".
Bodybuilders (usualy) only build muscles but don't the martial arts techniques to fight.
Also if you are a bodybuilder, you get rid of all body fat to make your muscles show even better, but far does protects the organs, so you are vulnerable to like a punch in the kidneys.
But there are hundreds different fighting styles and some most likely require the same muscles which bodybuilders focus on during their training.Sure. Right up until you meet that ex-Marine who feeds you your own teeth.
Seriously though, even if they can't fight, if you take two dudes who can't fight and let them flail around like retards, I'm still putting my money on the one who's ripped.It isn't the same for them all. Some of them can fight, but most people don't know how to defend themselves using their body alone. Unless they take up a martial art or boxing, I wouldn't expect them to know how to fight unless they just got into a lot of street fights early in life.
Strong men fight better than weak men, on average.
the best fighters tend to be quite fit.
men who spend all day in a fitness gym will be better fighters than most weaker men but not great fighters.
men who spend a lot of time in fight gyms with perhaps occasional supplemental work at fitness gyms will tend to be the best fighters.How physically fit a person is really doesn't mean to much if they don't have much experience and only strength. Of course in say a boxing match someone who is fit will have an easier time out lasting someone unfit but if said unfit person is an extremely talented boxer that guys fitness doesn't really matter unless he gets somehow knocked out instantly but in short how someone looks means nothing in fighting capability
The truth is that if they are a bodybuilder they won't be able to fight well. Bodybuilding exercises don't actually improve strength all that much, and the movements they train are wonky. So their muscles aren't useful.
The people I wouldn't mess with are the powerlifters and strong men, as well as professional athletes. Their muscle mass is 100% functional. That's dangerous.Everyone is different - but when it comes to fighting, don't judge a book by it's cover is a good rule of thumb. While I've seen some ripped guys know how to fight, I've also seen guys who you would think are scrawny or whatever but pack a wallop and really know how to fight fight.
Yes and no, being strong is obviously an advantage in a fight, but I'd argue that they're developing the wrong kind of attributes and not thinking practically, this also goes for mixed martial artists. The average number of assailants in crime currently at 2.5 and climbing, the likelihood of one being armed is also increasing, which would make strength and knowledge in hand to hand combat useless. If you're trying to use your hands to protect yourself, you're doing it wrong.
Well I would say it depends. If he's ripped, but he also practices martial arts and does his stretches I think he will still be a great fighter. Cause he learned the techniques and practices them.
However if the guy all he does is weight lifting and nothing else. Then he might be big, but I bet he won't last in the ring.No. There are no absolutes. Guys who want to improve their body, do it for individual reasons. But fight training is a separate situation. I can be buff from body building, or from training for my next MMA match. You won't know till I got your ass in a rear naked choke hold...
Not true, but the opposite doesn't have to be true either. I'm fairly confident I can beat most guys that frequent the gym even though I don't. That's because I've practiced a lot of martial arts and I have a height advantage.
However, if someone is both ripped and has also done a good deal of martial arts, he would definitely have an advantage.there's a huge amount of ego driven men hitting the gym to intimidate other men so they are not picked on. I would rather fight a huge dude than a skinny or small dude who does martial arts
lol... no, no you got it wrong. Don't assume just because a guys "not ripped" he can't fight. When i was at a Navy base, i remember seeing some SEALs doing PT around the base with out their shirt. They're not exactly ripped like you'd see in the movies but they'll hurt you bad lol.
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