Building muscle that directly applies to fighting!

[xo-karate]

Yes - in sumo, it's not enough to be big - you need also muscle. It used to be enough to be big. Same development is in Judo heavy class - it's better to be big and muscular than just big. If you just want to win a fight, big is better - and muscles are great.

If you compete in under 82 kg class, you'd probably like your bodyfat to be under 10 % closer to 7 - 8 % and the muscle you have should be in best places and optimal ability. Enough endurance, but ability to explode when needed.

So if you have restrictions like your weight class, what would be best strength training.

(My answer is multi joint movements like olympic lifts if you have the technique. Second is mimicing the moves you will need in your discipline, with moderate extra weight (5%) and keeping the intensity and third is functional movements - and in this order.)

If you stretch or if you use your full range of movement every day, you do not get stiff. If you don't stretch and you use just a small range of movement in your joints, you'll loose your mobility - and you don't even need muscles for this - tendons will do it. Muscles might hinder something in extreme cases - but for a regular guy, I would not worry about it:-)

One good thing about big muscles is that you can get rid of them easily, just don't use them and they will melt a way...

[barrypardue]

lol love the geo metro vs ferrari phrase!!!!!