Which Strength Exercises Should Wrestlers Do? Part 9
August 3, 2010
by Stephen R. Santangelo
I am constantly finding new ways to enhance athletic performance for all athletes. After all, “conditioning” applies to every sport and every athlete must be properly “conditioned” for improved performance.
I have been training with some new exercises which I have had miraculous improvement in movement dynamics and multi functional adaptation to one’s given sport.
As a member of the United States All-Round Strength Association & International All-Round Strength Association, I have found some extra-ordinary exercises which have sky rocketed 2 of the most important aspects of “conditioning”; flexible strength & multi functional strength.
I didn’t have to wait 4-6 weeks to see ‘if’ it was going to work. It worked instantly!
The principle behind these theories comes from the fact combat athletes perform many tasks within a very short amount of time; often less than 5 seconds.
They’re constantly changing direction, angle and speed. All these movements are done in a prone, kneeling, sitting or a variety of standing positions; sometimes unilaterally and sometimes bi-laterally.
Training the squat, dead lift, bench press or Olympic lifts only develop a singular motion; up and down.
What happens at the end of the lift?
The weight is racked or dropped to the ground.
In wrestling, when you bend over or squat down to grab an opponent, you don’t just bend over, pick him up, lift him up, drop him and walk away. You must execute many other movements to pin him or have your have your opponent tap out.
If he is a very dedicated opponent you need many more abilities to continue to control and beat him including the strength to perform in compromising positions.
In Part 10, I will introduce some of the most effective exercises which far exceed your traditional power lifting and Olympic lifting exercises.
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