Tyson Fury shows off incredible weight loss

How would coming in lighter put stress on his knees? being lighter would have the opposite effect.

 

When you're used to being a certain weight, any significant change of weight requires a period of acclimatising. It's not a matter of increased impact, since losing weight would obviously have no negative effects in that regard, but more a matter of readjusting your nervous system to deal with the demands your new weight puts on your overall mobility.

In an athletic sport like boxing, especially for a huge fighter who relies on his movement like Tyson, there are innumerable tiny forces that need to be aligned which, if any one of those is out, might result in injury. Tyson's been a certain weight for nigh on two years now; his body understands how to cope with that weight. Taking that weight off in a rapid space of time is going to throw that equilibrium off until his body readjusts. It's not a simple matter of lost weight = improved mobility.

Of course Tyson should aim to get his weight down in the long run. But he should aim to do it in stages, rather than all at once.

 

True. It's uncommon to see great fighters throughout history ripped to the bone. Frazier, Holmes and even Ali were all noticeably smooth in musculature, and lean fighters like Louis and Dempsey weren't exactly bulging with striated muscles either, despite looking (and being) in great fighting shape.

Tyson still looks like he could stand to lose a bit of excess flab, but he's never going to look like Joshua or Haye, and shouldn't be judged by those standards. Something like a HW version of Pavlik would be the best we should expect of him, looks wise.

 

I think that's very true....

 

I asked him to sign them for me, not wear them....

 

Pure bro science

Just so you know, I do have a background in this area,in both exercise physiology and sports nutrition. Not that I wish to create an appeal to authority.

Please elaborate from where 'innumerable' forces are generated at the knee. There are only a few forces generated, forces from contact of articular surfaces, load applied to the knee from the femur, tibia, and fibia as a result of your bodyweight & movement, and reactive forces from joints and ligaments pulling on the knee as a result of muscle contraction.

There are plenty of clinical studies aimed at simulating & predicting these forces, and ALL of them conclude that decreasing bodyweight significantly decreases the likelihood of injury at the knee. None of them have found or mentioned that rapid weight loss could be detrimental. Name me one single athlete that has suffered a knee injury as a result of rapid weight loss ever.

Please provide some sort of insight to your reasoning and rationale, preferably with supporting evidence.

Recommended reading.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3324308/

 

I'm a big Fury fan but whats up with the gay looking underwear?

 

You know Fury, he doesn't take himself too seriously, so donned a pair of multi-coloured budgie smugglers for the pic.

He looks bout 265lbs I guess, so about 20lbs off his fighting weight. Those last 20lbs will be the hardest to lose, he still has a long way to go from looking like the Dadbod heavyweight champion of the world to the real heavyweight champion of the world. But he's on the right track, he's proven a lot of people wrong by getting into the shape he already has, I for one didn't think he could do it.

 

I have to say I didn't think he'd have it in him (to lose considerable weight). I tip my hat to Fury. It will take considerable work i.e. multiple impressive wins on his part though to make good on the damage he has done on the HW boxing scene and its fans by his disappearance and fight cancellations act.

 

At his fat level, not surprised. I hate him but the division is better with him than without. I welcome his return.

 

It's good that he appears to be taking it seriously
as the weight loss suggests but I need to see him
in the ring first. If he really can get to 2015 form
(in the ring), I'd pick him over everyone.

 

Warren should keep Fury busy in his comeback, fight him every few months at least. A highly impulsive person like Fury needs short term concrete goals to keep things in order.

 

Thanks for the article. Very interesting.

My point above is simply that any significant change in weight requires a period of acclimatising.

I don't have a background in the field however, so I'm happy to defer to your knowledge on the matter.

Odlanier Solis vs Vitali.

 

Knee jerk reaction?

Only joking..... good knowledge squire!

 

No they don’t!