crazy body and strength

[marktb]

I apologize if this has been posted but this guy has an incredible physique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsTKfUT-RQ

Mark

[Nathan]

Hey Mark,

You are right that guy does have a pretty awesome physique. But I have to wonder if all of that development was natural OR was some of it was some sort of chemical enhancement.?.? All the best.


---Nathan

[Andy62]

That is phenomenal. There are all sorts of people in the world who have extraordinary abilities in a wide variety of areas and obviously this guy is one of them,

[divebomber]

I do believe that "Hannibal" is natural. he seems to be pretty short (also judging from some of the gymnastics moves he is able to perform), and therefore his development may look much more impressive on the screen where you can't see his true size.

Still, in no way does this diminish his spectacular achievement - this guy is a walking and breathing testament to the power of pure bodyweight training (and more specifically, to the effect of ultra high tension, which all of his moves aim to generate).

[John Peterson]

Hey Friends,

Please look at that clip once again. What you see is a perfectly developed man with the ideal strength to body weight ratio PLUS PERFECT LEVERAGE FOR PERFORMING LONG LEVER FEATS OF STRENGTH. Trust me friends, there are other incredibly strong and fit men that could never do what you see this man do. Likewise, there are other men with perfect proportions and leverage that never developed the requisite ISOMETRIC STRENGTH that this man has. In order to do what you just saw this man do, it requires perfect proportions, perfect strength, and perfect leverage.This man has all three. This is literally an example of what Tromp Van Diggelen said was the case with Maxick. The man was not a weight lifter but an expert at muscle control with perfect proportions, ideal leverage and a level of muscular strength that allowed him excel at any and all feats off strength. In fact, Maxick's Muscle Control Course utilized "Pulsing Isometrics" to great effect in order to develop the strength component.

Thanks for posting this MarkTB. Great example.

---John Peterson

[tom]

That's natural.

Nate, if you grow up with the right proportions (if your parents gave them to you) as John says, you will look like that when you thicken more in your late teens onward. You've got a good start.

Start practicing the skills.

Let me rephrase that: you will look like that if you continue, no matter your proportions - you will do the skills if you learn them.

Tom

[omad0n]

Honestly I don't know if that's perfect proportions or not. What i do know is that if you go to a rock climbing gym and watch the really advanced people mess around on the bars and stuff, you will see stuff like that. I watch it and think to myself someday. I've even seen a guy run up to a wall grab 2 holds with hands higher than where he is. Then he doesn't touch the wall with feet. Instead he turned himself upside down in a slow and very controlled manner just with his strength.

Steve

[bundaberg]

I've read about these guys, some of them do upwards of 300 chinups every day.

[tom]

Here's my hero.

She is the video response to the first one, in case you missed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqCdDUtoXTw&watch_response

I've mentioned it before, as a father of daughters, I think strong girls are cool.

Tom

[dynogoalie30]

the strength and physique is awesome, in these videos I see that all they do is upper body work, I was wondering if they train the legs?

[Kevin Nickerson]

Check out the oldtimestrongman.com blog it shows John David a weightlifting champion doing the flag.I know this is not a weightliftng forum but he had amazing body control

[bennyb]

I would think from the isometric contraction of the whole body the legs would be developed some way. I wouldn't be be surprised if they did any leg work but from contracting i'm sure the whole body is getting a workout. Especially the V-Sits and certain handstands that the legs have to be in shape in order to properly balance and lever.

[Hank_Z]

Here's my hero.

She is the video response to the first one, in case you missed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqCdDUtoXTw&watch_response

I've mentioned it before, as a father of daughters, I think strong girls are cool.

Tom

Tom,

She's my hero, too! I have three daughters and two granddaughters, so I also like strong, athletic girls.

This gal impressed me with the number of pull-ups she cranked out after they became very difficult for her. I kept thinking, "OK, this has to be her last pull-up"...and then she'd do another.