This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected Eugene Sandow, above This was Sandow at 19 (I think) This content is protected This content is protected [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Edward Aston[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Bobby Pandour[/FONT], below This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] This content is protected [/FONT]
Agreed with these, you gotta have the right genes and work out well. But also agreed that these are mostly "show" muscles, the ball-like biceps on Bradley's and Alexander's arms look intimidating but can actually be a bad shape for a fighter. Long, lean muscles produce just as much power but allow for much freer movement and don't constrain. Hence why so many KO artists often look skinny as hell! Kinda shows with Bradley not having one-punch KO power. Dude is ripped though, you can see why he's got such a high workrate!
This content is protected I was like since when did lightweights look so ripped..??? Also if you look at the Pac Marquez II weigh in I've never seen armpit muscle that vividly before its pretty crazy
Sandow was. The other below him not sure but he technically counted as one. Anyone that took care of his body like that with a nice body counted one. The other was a gymnast. Quick info on him: [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Bobby Pandour[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Wladyslaw Kurcharczyk was born in Poland. Some sources quote his birth date as 1876, others as 1882.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]He and his brother, Ludwig, were champion gymnasts and went to England in the early 1900s with a sensational horizontal bar, posing, muscle control and hand balancing act.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The public, at that time, were more interested in 'strong-man' acts and, despite their skill and bodily appearance they were never able to top the bill.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Professor Attila is credited with the change of name to 'Bobby Pandour' and he was also instrumental in getting the brothers some publicity.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Pandour apparently refused to do any training with heavy weights and concentrated on exercising with a pair of 10lb dumb-bells. He was also forever tensing and flexing his muscles.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]His only concession to exercise was to carry his brother up several flights of stairs as fast as possible, whenever he could. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]This developed magnificent thighs, which are evident from the photographs[/FONT] The one at the bottom was a Wrestler but he did lift weights. Not sure how much or what exactly he did.
that is how he probably naturally looks. What you really would need to see is photos of him in his younger days. A lot of guys like Tyson and Lacy were also really muscular in their amateur days as well and people assume they lifted lots of weights as pros but that just wasnt the case. I doubt he is doing curls that would be pointless and at the world level his trainer probably knows better.
Ok, but not professional boxers I'm guessing there are a tonne of athletes in better shape than Bradley
This content is protected Primo Canera All that Size, all those muscles didn't help him against Max Baer and Joe Louis
I think this was Tyson at 13 years old. This content is protected Teddy Atlas said something about not having to be a genius to figure out from a physical stand-point, you have something to work with. Teddy also noted that Tyson was trained well to become the boxer he would later become. That said, you don't need to look like Tyson or Bradley, etc. Tommy Hearns was a tooth-pick and lethal at 147+